AltWeeklies Wire
Devin the Dude Abidesnew
A Devin album is an experience, the aural approximation of "puff, puff, pass," and Waiting to Inhale is his finest harvest.
Baltimore City Paper |
Brandon Soderberg |
10-16-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Devin the Dude, Waiting to Inhale
Blaine Taylor's Bunker Mentalitynew
As Ken Burns' latest monolith airs on PBS, a Maryland writer shows human side of different front.
Baltimore City Paper |
John Barry |
10-09-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
'The Jane Austen Book Club': The Slight Fluffnew
Underdeveloped, unbelievable women, borderline gross romances, and talky bits -- shh, it's not over yet!
Baltimore City Paper |
Anna Ditkoff |
10-09-2007 |
Reviews
'Naked on the Internet' Looks at Risks and Restrictions of the Internet's Pornographic Gazenew
Though the title implies some To Catch a Predator moralizing, what's found inside is just the opposite: a guide for women considering breaking into sex blogging or other online sex specialties.
Baltimore City Paper |
Raymond Cummings |
10-09-2007 |
Nonfiction
Looking for Feminism in Baltimorenew
Is contemporary feminism composed of nothing more than a few true believers preaching to the converted, while the average American woman lives her life, mostly content with her options and opportunities?
Baltimore City Paper |
Heather Harris |
10-09-2007 |
The War on Women
Tags: women's issues
'Trailer Trash' Shows Poor White Folks Differently Than 'Cops'new
Don Diego Ramirez's documentary humanizes its subjects without flinching from the horror of what they perpetrate upon each other.
Baltimore City Paper |
Violet Glaze |
09-18-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
The New Pornographers Issue a 'Meh' Albumnew
The joyfully erratic sounds present in their earlier Mass Romantic, Electric Version, and, to some degree, Twin Cinema are, on first listen, surprisingly absent.
Baltimore City Paper |
Allison Levin |
09-18-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Challengers, The New Pornographers
Common and UGK Offer the Best Rap Releases So Farnew
Common's Finding Forever and UGK's Underground Kingz are "albums" in the true sense of the word: a group of consistent, thematically cohesive songs.
Baltimore City Paper |
Brandon Soderburg |
09-18-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: UGK, Underground Kingz
Black Moth Super Rainbow Doesn't Write Songs, It Doodlesnew
Dandelion Gum can sound like the lo-fi bedroom work of one or two people.
Baltimore City Paper |
Michaelangelo Matos |
09-18-2007 |
Reviews
The Black Lips Grows Up By Staying Youngnew
With Good Bad Not Evil, the band's Vice Records studio full-length debut and fifth album overall, the Georgia quartet is building more buzz than fuzz with the group's least rust-bucket, adolescence-addled collection of blues-rawk.
Baltimore City Paper |
Tony Ware |
09-18-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Black Lips, Good Bad Not Evil
Don DeLillo's Slender Novel Shows Impressive Depthnew
If Underworld was an epic exploration of the political and cultural machinations of an entire era in American history, then Falling Man is a subtle snippet of said history, subversive in how it undermines exactly what we crave and expect from this popular chronicler of our country's highs and lows.
Baltimore City Paper |
Zak M. Salih |
09-11-2007 |
Fiction
Freebird!new
Mitch Myers might have done better to split The Boy Who Cried Freebird into two separate halves: one devoted to straightforward rock journalism and another for fiction-oriented CD reviews and tall tales best told over tallboys.
Baltimore City Paper |
Raymond Cummings |
09-11-2007 |
Fiction
'The Chess Machine' Turns into a Soap Operanew
In his historical novel, Löhr's got an opportunity to lard his story with ideas about technology, deception, or gamesmanship, he instead settles for breathless and unsophisticated daytime-drama shenanigans.
Baltimore City Paper |
Violet Glaze |
09-11-2007 |
Fiction
Luc Sante Sinks His Teeth into American Culturenew
The Sante on display in Kill All Your Darlings is the cultural critic; even the first-person essays that lead it off are much about the role society played into the author's early history.
Baltimore City Paper |
Michaelangelo Matos |
09-11-2007 |
Nonfiction
Monica Bellucci Knows What's in Store for Hernew
The Italian actress has become an international star -- and one who, rather than losing work after 40 as is the general complaint of American actresses, appears to be getting even more of it.
Baltimore City Paper |
Cole Haddon |
09-11-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Michael Davis, Shoot 'Em Up
