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'Cavemen' Needs a Little Evolutionnew
The idea of a sitcom based on an ad campaign doesn't exactly create a fervor of anticipation. But there are actually some surprises -- including decent, timely, pop-culture jokes -- to be unearthed in Cavemen, which exists in a bizarro-world that includes real, hairy Neanderthals living and dating among us.
San Diego CityBeat |
Anders Wright |
10-10-2007 |
TV
Tags: TV
The DIY of the Deadnew
With face paint, good riffs and an obsession with death, The Creepy Creeps are making surf rock cool.
San Diego CityBeat |
AnnaMaria Stephens |
10-10-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Creepy Creeps
Long Duk Dong's Returnnew
Gedde Watanabe (of Sixteen Candles and ER fame) appears in the short film Fortune Hunters in San Diego Asian Film Festival. He thought the script both embraced and broke down the Asian stereotypes that often make their way into movies and that he himself has played on more than one occasion.
San Diego CityBeat |
Anders Wright |
10-10-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Fortune Hunters, Thom Harp
'Skid Marks' Aims for 'Supertrooper' Laughs, But Raunchiernew
When Karl Kozak, co-founder and director of programming for the San Diego Film Festival, is at his day job, he's sifting through artsy films for the annual event. So how did he end up making an over-the-top comedy for his fourth feature film?
San Diego CityBeat |
Anders Wright |
10-03-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Karl Kozak, Skid Marks
Ang Lee's 'Lust Caution' is Oddly Not Hotnew
For a film with such crackling sex scenes and a high-profile NC-17 rating, it leaves the viewer strangely cold.
San Diego CityBeat |
Anders Wright |
10-03-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Ang Lee, Lust, Caution
Patton Oswalt, Adopted Indie Rockernew
Here's a theory: Patton Oswalt is the Death Cab For Cutie of the comedy world. It's not such a stretch.
San Diego CityBeat |
AnnaMarie Stephens |
10-03-2007 |
Performance
Tags: performance
Nick Drake Bears More 'Fruit'new
The box set Fruit Tree will be reissued by UME/Fontana in a limited edition with a new 108-page booklet. It also contains a DVD of a new documentary, Jeroen Berkvens' A Skin Too Few: The Days of Nick Drake.
San Diego CityBeat |
Kirk Silsbee |
10-03-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Fruit Tree, Nick Drake
California's Presidential Electoral Reform Act on Life Supportnew
The GOP-backed ballot initiative would allocate the state's electoral votes according to which presidential candidate wins a congressional district, shifting 20 or more of the state's 55 electoral votes to the Republican presidential nominee -- a block of votes equivalent to winning Ohio.
San Diego CityBeat |
Lucas O'Connor |
10-03-2007 |
Politics
Fans of 'Buffy' Keep the Fire Goingnew
Between the continuation of series creator Joss Whedon's approved story lines, the explosion of Buffy-related "fan fiction" and the advent of "Buffyology" -- a newly recognized and legitimate field of study within the academic community -- the legacy of Buffy appears poised for longevity.
San Diego CityBeat |
Justin Roberts |
10-03-2007 |
TV
Tags: TV
Mitt Loony: You Have To be Crazy to Vote for This Guynew
You have to be several Sundays short of a calendar month to vote for a Mormon for president.
San Diego CityBeat |
Edwin Decker |
10-03-2007 |
Commentary
Mayor Has a Change of Heart on Same-Sex Marriagenew
San Diego's mayor, a Republican who in the past has pledged support for same-sex civil unions but not marriage, changed his position and signed a resolution that allowed San Diego to join 19 other California cities and counties in collectively submitting a legal document known as an amicus curiae brief in a state Supreme Court case.
San Diego CityBeat |
Kelly Davis |
09-26-2007 |
LGBT
Tags: gay & lesbian issues
San Diego Announces New Film Festivalnew
Cinema Sud Italian Film Festival, which celebrates Italian films, runs from Oct. 12 through 25.
San Diego CityBeat |
Anders Wright |
09-26-2007 |
Movies
It's Hard to Make a Good Film bout Human Traffickingnew
Based on Peter Landesman's investigative work in The New York Times Magazine, Trade is its own undoing as it approaches terribly real issues with terrible movie clichés.
San Diego CityBeat |
Anders Wright |
09-26-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: trade, Marco Kreuzpaintner
'The Kingdom' Wears No Clothesnew
For all its desperate need to be taken seriously, Peter Berg's The Kingdom is painfully phony, made more so by its well-disguised attempts at political correctness.
San Diego CityBeat |
Anders Wright |
09-26-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Peter Berg, The Kingdom
The Music Industry's Festival Warsnew
San Diego's Street Scene is part of the industry's newest turf battle.
San Diego CityBeat |
Troy Johnson |
09-19-2007 |
Music
