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Alt.Health: Energy Boost or Bummer?new

Attention students: Sure, you need to cram, but don't OD on potent caffeine bevs.

NOW Magazine | Elizabeth Bromstein | 09-14-2007 | Advice

'The Shock Doctrine' Deliversnew

Klein may be called a conspiracy theorist because she argues that greedy multinational corporations, rightist think tanks and neo-liberal governments are the designers of many international economic disasters, but even skeptics will be impressed by the weight of statistics, documentation and first-hand quotes she assembles to make her case.

NOW Magazine | Howard Goldenthal | 09-14-2007 | Nonfiction

Tags: Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, Nonfiction Reviews

Ellis Can't Make the Leap from Comic to Novelnew

Pick up any of his Transmetropolitan graphic novels instead -- you'll get more entertainment for less money.

NOW Magazine | Andrew Dowler | 09-14-2007 | Fiction

Tags: Crooked Little Vein, Warren Ellis, Fiction Reviews

'The Hunting Party' Feels Like Two Different Moviesnew

One is a smart comedy about TV reporters, and the other is a fact-based story about those reporters hunting a war criminal in postwar Bosnia -- but the two never blend, and only a few of the scenes generate either laughs or tension.

NOW Magazine | Andrew Dowler | 09-14-2007 | Reviews

Tags: Richard Shepard, The Hunting Party

'Mr. Woodcock' Risesnew

Don't underestimate this light comedy because of its gratuitously juvenile title or its weak premise of a self-help writer who can't cope -- the plot might be predictable, but the dialogue is surprisingly witty and the performances strong.

NOW Magazine | Jeff Rutherford | 09-14-2007 | Reviews

Tags: Craig Gillespie, Mr. Woodcock

CARE Goes Against the (U.S.) Grainnew

The major aid agency launches boycott of U.S. crop dumping masquerading as charity.

NOW Magazine | Wayne Roberts | 09-14-2007 | Food+Drink

Kanye West Has Finally Graduatednew

With producer Jon Brion back in the sidecar, West delivers another failsafe collection of sharp, soulful songs, exposing his new affinity for synths and electronic drums while adding new lyrical ground to that campus-sized ego.

NOW Magazine | Jason Richards | 09-07-2007 | Reviews

Tags: Kanye West, Graduation

Is There More to Interpol than Fancy Matching Suits?new

The band's latest disc abandons the oppressive claustrophobia that had become their aesthetic cliche -- the songs have breathing room, stretching out along more expansive arrangements of keyboards and shimmering guitars.

NOW Magazine | Sarah Liss | 09-07-2007 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Interpol, Our Love To Admire