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Rawest Rushnew
Chitlin-circuit R&B king Bobby Rush takes a detour.
NOW Magazine |
Time Perlich |
12-14-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Bobby Rush
Disco Love Affairnew
Andy Butler connects the classics with contemporary club sounds.
NOW Magazine |
Benjamin Boles |
12-14-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Blood Ceremony Channels Witchy Wickedness of Rock's Pastnew
The melodic flute focus is what separates Ceremony from a zillion weed-hazed dudes blasting Iommi riffs. It gives their otherwise gloom-drone occult rock a heightened sense of drama, imagery and femininity, something sorely lacking in most metal.
NOW Magazine |
Jason Keller |
12-07-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Blood Ceremony
Alt.Health: Purging Bad Body Memoriesnew
Overcome trauma through eye movement and blue agate.
NOW Magazine |
Elizabeth Bromstein |
12-07-2007 |
Advice
Tags: advice columns
Detroit's Rep on the Risenew
The city that once typified urban blight is changing its identity.
NOW Magazine |
Ron Stang |
12-07-2007 |
Travel
Tags: travel
It's Peace or Apartheidnew
Israeli prime minister utters shocking truth that nation's options are screwed by demographics.
NOW Magazine |
Gwynne Dyer |
12-07-2007 |
International
Tags: international
Jocks on Trialnew
Until Proven Innocent is a seething indictment of the individuals and institutions in Durham, North Carolina that conspired to put three demonstrably innocent lacrosse players in jail for 30 years.
NOW Magazine |
Howard Goldenthal |
11-30-2007 |
Nonfiction
Goodbye Guiltnew
In The Worst Intentions, Italian first novelist Alessandro Piperno – with excellent assistance from his translator, Ann Goldstein – gives us a vivid, and not so pretty, picture of the post-Holocaust Italian Jewish community.
NOW Magazine |
Susan G. Cole |
11-30-2007 |
Fiction
Food Fightersnew
Le Cirque was the place to see and be seen for more than two decades, a New York landmark that served kings and kingmakers. Director Andrew Rossi captures the run-up to Le Cirque 3.0 in this bittersweet documentary.
NOW Magazine |
Deidre Swain |
11-30-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: A Table in Heaven, Andrew Rossi
Saint Charlesnew
Decades before Queer As Folk and Will & Grace, there was Charles Nelson Reilly , best known as the fey 70s game show contestant who wore sailor hats, toupées and, along with frequent TV co-star Paul Lynde, perfected the art of campy innuendo for generations of North American viewers.
NOW Magazine |
Glenn Sumi |
11-30-2007 |
Reviews
NYC's White Magic Benefit From Special Powersnew
Mira Billotte of White Magic delivers "As I Went Out One Morning" with an otherworldly sweetness Bob Dylan's version from John Wesley Harding never had. This isn't the first time Billotte has benefited from some weird synchronicity.
NOW Magazine |
Tim Perlich |
11-30-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: White Magic
Percee P Perseveresnew
The fact that Percee P's been in the game since the mid-80s but is only dropping his debut album now speaks volumes.
NOW Magazine |
Jason Richards |
11-30-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Percee P, Perseverence
Dollar's Long Farewellnew
The world economy as we know it is in China's hands.
NOW Magazine |
Gwynne Dyer |
11-30-2007 |
Economy
Tags: Economic Issues
World of Wasted Timenew
Climate change has stopped being human-created and in our control. Now what?
NOW Magazine |
Wayne Roberts |
11-30-2007 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Let's Ban the Biblenew
Recently the Catholic School Board in Halton Region pulled The Golden Compass, a children's novel by Philip Pullman, from the shelves. Supposedly not because of anything in it, but because the man who wrote it is an avowed and proud atheist.
NOW Magazine |
Drew Hayden Taylor |
11-30-2007 |
Commentary
