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Playing Doctor: A Physician Practices Based on Questionable Claimsnew
Lying on a résumé isn't a crime -- except when a doctor does it. Luckily for Edward Patrick, who may have never done the residency he claims, the Ohio Medical Board is forgiving.
Cleveland Scene |
Thomas Francis |
11-02-2004 |
Science
Blessed Are the Cheesemakersnew
In 2004 A.D., as the five remaining members of the legendary Monty Python comedy troupe lie in coffins in a Vanity Fair spread to jeer at their own deaths, it's really nice to have them back together commanding the big screen.
Cleveland Scene |
Gregory Weinkauf |
10-25-2004 |
Reviews
Beating the Bushnew
Hijacking Catastrophe compares Bush to a Nazi. That's a brazen move, fitting for a documentary that promotes fearlessness as the ultimate act of citizenship. It's also melodramatic.
Cleveland Scene |
Melissa Levine |
10-25-2004 |
Reviews
Killing You Slowlynew
Filmmaker Jim Van Bebber's latest low-rent foray into sex, drugs, and ultraviolence hasn't got a laugh in it -- unless some twisted wackos out there find amusement in the dismemberment of Sharon Tate.
Cleveland Scene |
Bill Gallo |
10-25-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
No Remorsenew
The Dwarves' most eclectic and unbounded LP pairs chest-pounding rap battles that diss everyone from Good Charlotte to the Queens of the Stone Age with foreboding gospel that imagines Christ as an MC.
Cleveland Scene |
Jason Bracelin |
10-25-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Underdog Senate Candidate Hiked Alone Across Ohionew
Democrat Eric Fingerhut doesn't have the money his powerful opponent, Republican George Voinovich, does. So he's walking across the state of Ohio, where nobody walks anywhere if he can possibly help it. Trudging along a two-lane highway could make a candidate look like a nut.
Cleveland Scene |
Chris Maag |
10-25-2004 |
Politics
Tags: Campaign, U.S. Senate
10 Can't-Lose Boozing Tunesnew
Bluesman Bob Log III claims there are only three towns in America in which female audience members haven't obliged his request to dunk a boob in his drink. So he knows something about boozing -- and the right songs for it.
Cleveland Scene |
Jason Bracelin |
10-22-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Bob Log III
Cleveland Cops Coldcock a Cuckoldnew
It hurt Jeffrey Moore that his wife was cheating on him with a cop. And it hurt when that cop and three cop cronies handed Moore a beating.
Cleveland Scene |
Kevin Hoffman |
10-22-2004 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
A Rich Girl Runs for Congressnew
When Capri Cafaro declared her candidacy 10 months ago, she was considered too young and too inexperienced to challenge the four Democratic veterans also running for the congressional seat in Ohio's 14th District. Shifting tactics for voters young and old, she won in a landslide.
Cleveland Scene |
Rebecca Meiser |
10-22-2004 |
Politics
Hell of a Catchnew
This familiar-feeling football movie offers glimpses of the lives of the young men who would run with the ball as far as they could from the small town that adores them to the point of abhorring them.
Cleveland Scene |
Robert Wilonsky |
10-12-2004 |
Reviews
Assault-Rifles Ban Was Nearly Worthlessnew
During the entire decade the assault-rifles ban was in effect, anyone -- gun collectors, criminals, terrorists -- could still buy assault rifles legally.
Cleveland Scene |
Chris Maag |
10-12-2004 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: NRA, National Rifle Association, a terrorism expert, assault weapons, Bureau of Alcohol, Chechens, Dr. Neil Livingstone, executive director of the national Fraternal Order of Police, Gun-control advocates, Jim Pasco, Jim Titlow's Bushmaster XM-15 assault rifle, Tobacco and Firearms, crime & justice
Well Worth the Weightnew
Left in limbo after their first underground rock label folded, Disengage faltered, then raised the funds for their second CD. Application for an Afterlife is a fierce, dramatic disc that balances its bombast with breadth.
Cleveland Scene |
Jason Bracelin |
10-05-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Already Forgottennew
For a few minutes, The Forgotten acts as though it wants to be taken seriously, suggesting that it could have been a moving meditation on grief and longing and the devastating power of remembrance.
Cleveland Scene |
Robert Wilonsky |
09-27-2004 |
Reviews
Beats and Piecesnew
One of RJD2's goals when he set out to create his second solo record, this year's Since We Last Spoke, was to pull the building-blocks of his tracks from new and different places.
Cleveland Scene |
Steve Boughton |
09-27-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Country Club Swagger: Bush Is an Embarrassment to Real Mennew
George W. Bush confuses attitude with masculinity. If he were a real man, he'd keep his sights on the real enemy, Osama bin Laden, not pick an easier, more convenient fight with Saddam Hussein.
Cleveland Scene |
Pete Kotz |
09-27-2004 |
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