AltWeeklies Wire
Officeless Spacenew
Michelle Goodman is here to help women free themselves from mindless drudgery.
Baltimore City Paper |
Kimberly Burge |
05-15-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Maakies' New 'Crow'new
We dook-dook-dook cartoonist Tony Millionaire in anticipation of the pilot episode of The Drinky Crow Show.
Baltimore City Paper |
Joe MacLeod |
05-15-2007 |
TV
Tags: TV
Global Warming's Hot Airnew
What's galling to me is the exponentially larger number of people, often wealthy celebrities and politicians, who've jumped on global-warming bandwagon as a recreational activity.
Baltimore City Paper |
Russ Smith |
05-15-2007 |
Commentary
Social Studies: Cultural Baggagenew
Sure enough, my new messenger bag says, "To Serve the People," and, sure enough, it is a Mao quote, but beyond the striking iconography of the red star and the script, I have to wonder what all I am saying with it, and is that really the baggage I want to carry around with me?
Baltimore City Paper |
Vincent Williams |
05-15-2007 |
Commentary
A Fine Novelnew
Horses is ultimately a testament to just how easily mellows can be harshed -- to life's hidden tripwires, strung everywhere and capable of catapulting anyone back down the bittersweet rabbit hole of stinging memory.
Baltimore City Paper |
Raymond Cummings |
05-08-2007 |
Fiction
Tags: Out Stealing Horses, Per Petterson
A Worthy Entry Onto the School of Rock Required-reading Listnew
If ever you wanted a minute-by-minute account of the rise of the beast that became punk rock, this is it.
Baltimore City Paper |
Emily Flake |
05-08-2007 |
Nonfiction
Dudes Look Like a Maybenew
Journalist Charlie Leduff goes looking for the rugged American man -- and may be still looking for him.
Baltimore City Paper |
Zak M. Salih |
05-08-2007 |
Nonfiction
Max Bemis, the Auteurnew
Say Anything's frontman wants you to pay no attention to the man behind the curtain who's begging for attention.
Baltimore City Paper |
Jess Harvell |
05-08-2007 |
Music
Tags: Say Anything
Land and Freedomnew
Standing Silent Nation examines Native Americans' right to use the soil on which they live.
Baltimore City Paper |
Rahne Alexander |
05-08-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
The Same Sketch Comedy, but All Gay!new
The biggest single problem with The Big Gay Sketch Show is that it's so deeply immersed in extant TV references that you wonder if its target audience has gotten off the couch once in the last 20 years.
Baltimore City Paper |
Rahne Alexander |
05-08-2007 |
TV
Tags: TV
Year of the Pignew
Man, I'm nervous, seriously, on account of this thing with all the pet foods. Did you hear about these pet foods? The bad pet foods?
Baltimore City Paper |
Joe MacLeod |
05-08-2007 |
Comedy
Tags: humor & satire
Whither Liars?new
One of the great mysteries about the mainstream press in the last six years is its seeming inability to use one particular word: "liar."
Baltimore City Paper |
Brian Morton |
05-08-2007 |
Commentary
The Last of the Strongmennew
Gordon Scott was a hero wherever he went -- from Hollywood to Italy to South Baltimore.
Baltimore City Paper |
Chris Landers |
05-08-2007 |
Movies
Brown Reasons to Livenew
With a socio-scatological new book, Dave Praeger wants to be your number two.
Baltimore City Paper |
Emily Flake |
05-01-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
'Ho' Downnew
While the term "nappy-headed hos" and hip-hop lyrics are currently under the spotlight, the overarching issues behind the present controversies are as old as African-American art -- and the problem isn't bad images; the problem is bad art.
Baltimore City Paper |
Vincent Williams |
05-01-2007 |
Commentary
Tags: imus
