AltWeeklies Wire
Playing Our Culture’s Stupid Narcissism For Laughsnew
Pretty Wild, E!’s latest effort to document the strange and beautiful life forms that inhabit the least-charted latitudes of Fame, is as real as a fake boob — which is to say it’s the most accurate and illuminating depiction of how we live now currently airing on TV.
Hartford Advocate |
Greg Beato |
03-26-2010 |
TV
Illegal Gringo Crosser: Collaborative Work on a Reverse Border Humornew
A comedian and a multi-media/theater group director collaborate on a video pilot about illegal immigration with a twist... Americans wanting to sneak into Mexico.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Jimmy Fowler |
03-26-2010 |
Comedy
KenCen’s Golden Age Offers an Overdose of Rococonew
Jeffrey Carlson’s Vincenzo Bellini isn't the only thing that's a mess in this play: Like too much of the art form it celebrates, Terrence McNally’s new comic drama Golden Age, about the heyday of bel canto opera, is overwritten and wildly overheated.
Washington City Paper |
Trey Graham |
03-26-2010 |
Theater
Tags: Golden Age, Terrence McNally
Catherine Breillat Returns With Another Powerful Sexual Narrativenew
That drop of menstrual blood at the beginning of The Runaways recurs in Bluebeard, Catherine Breillat’s adaptation of the 17th-century Charles Perrault fairytale.
New York Press |
Armond White |
03-25-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: Bluebeard, Catherine Breillat
Righteously Energetic: Ted Leo's 'The Brutalist Bricks'new
The Brutalist Bricks is more of Ted Leo's signature brand of surging, thinking-man's punk rock, with soaring melodies to counterbalance the cranked amps and pummeling drums.
Tucson Weekly |
Eric Swedlund |
03-25-2010 |
Reviews
Breakthrough Record: Backyard Tire Fire's 'Good to Be'new
An all-too-common trap for Americana bands is to lay down an easy beat and dial in some twang. Backyard Tire Fire settles in miles away from that cookie-cutter approach, mixing barreling roadhouse rockers with lean, catchy, soulful tunes.
Tucson Weekly |
Eric Swedlund |
03-25-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: Backyard Tire Fire, Good to Be
Ben Stiller is a Bastard in This Excellent Drama About a Failurenew
Two things you should know off the bat about Greenberg. First, it’s a deeply unlikable movie. Second, I liked it. You see, most movies have main characters who are nice people, because moviegoers tend to prefer the company of such characters
Fort Worth Weekly |
Kristian Lin |
03-25-2010 |
Reviews
Housing the Homeless: A Frustrated Builder Thinks Inside the Boxnew
Homelessness is a big problem in Fort Worth, said Mike Wallace, a retired homebuilder who grew up here and still lives here. “And I think I have a solution.” Wallace wants to turn shipping containers into livable homes.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Peter Gorman |
03-25-2010 |
Housing & Development
Tags: shipping containers, homelessness
A Synthetic Substitute for Marijuana is Drawing Raves and Warningsnew
The stuff that’s flying off the shelves of head shops all over the country goes by brand names like K2, Spice Gold, and Hawaiian Haze, and it’s replacing marijuana in the lives of student athletes, police officers, and stoners.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Dan McGraw and Susan Costa |
03-25-2010 |
Drugs
With Jack Clement's Help, Marley's Ghost Keeps Wolves at Baynew
When Marley's Ghost made its pilgrimage to Nashville last year to record with "Cowboy" Jack Clement, the band wasn't entirely sure what to expect.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Bill Forman |
03-25-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Colorado Museum Looks Into the Offbeat Sides of Conflict and Resolutionnew
Little girls in white dresses and hairbows kick and beat each other. Meanwhile, a man flies a kite. These images explore the nature of conflict and resolution, the theme for the museum's new show.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Edie Adelstein |
03-25-2010 |
Art
Nerds Triumph: Adult Humor Gets Knocked Down a Pegnew
American movies appear to be regressing at an alarming rate. The cinema has long fixated on the cliques, bullies, social embarrassment and occasional good times of high school, but stories about middle schoolers generally have been limited to Nickelodeon and Disney Channel programs.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Felicia Feaster |
03-25-2010 |
Reviews
Gail Y. Okawa’s Research Uncovered the History of Japanese Internment in New Mexiconew
Gail Y. Okawa found out in her teens that her grandfather, Reverend Tamasaku Watanabe, had been interned at the Santa Fe Internment Camp, which housed 4,555 men from 1942 to 1946 in what is now the Casa Solana neighborhood.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Charlotte Jusinski |
03-25-2010 |
Race & Class
Tags: Gail Y. Okawa, Tamasaku Watanabe
Boner Patrol: A Portland School Bans Hugsnew
West Sylvan Middle School Principal Allison Couch sent a memo to school district officials expressing concern about a hugging epidemic at the school, and on March 10 she issued a campus-wide ban on all hugging.
The Portland Mercury |
Stefan Kamph |
03-25-2010 |
Education
Attempting to Make Sense of SXSW, America's Premier Music Festivalnew
There are close to 2,000 registered bands at SXSW, although the impossible-to-determine unofficial number is probably twice that. If you perform, you will do so opposite hundreds of other bands from all over the world.
The Portland Mercury |
Ezra Ace Caraeff |
03-25-2010 |
Music
