AltWeeklies Wire
Eddie Palmieri Continues to Reinvent His Pioneering Latin jazznew
At age 74 with nine Grammys and 36 albums to his credit, one of Latin music's most recognized innovators shows no signs of letting up.
INDY Week |
Sylvia Pfeiffenberger |
02-17-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Eddie Palmieri
The Illusionist, the Magnificent New Film From Sylvain Chometnew
Deeply felt and painfully melancholy, The Illusionist wallows in the visual and aural furniture of a vanishing popular culture.
Tags: The Illusionist
The Rise and Fall of the Carolina RailHawksnew
The same ambition and hubris that propelled the RailHawks to reach great heights also contributed to their slow decay, culminating recently with the dissolution of the club and the peddling of the team's brand, logo, Internet domain name and even its mascot on eBay last month.
Tags: Carolina RailHawks
The Story of Floating Action's Pan-Everything Soulnew
In the alchemy of greasy funk from Memphis and Detroit soul, Caribbean island riddims and Tropicalia beats, and African and Middle Eastern accents, Seth Kauffman has come up with a distinct sound he's dubbed "lo-fi North Carolina funk."
INDY Week |
John Schacht |
02-08-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Floating Action
Allergen-Free Super Bowl Buffet and Valentine's Day Goodiesnew
Recipes for allergen-free Chex Party Mix, guacamole, Gluten-Free Hooter's Buffalo Wings, tangy sweet and sour sauce, gluten-free devil's-food cake; plus Valentine's chocolates.
INDY Week |
Joyce Clark Hicks |
02-04-2011 |
Food+Drink
Tags: Recipes
Interview: Wilco's Glenn Kotchenew
Wilco's Glenn Kotche talks about the idea exchange between rock and classical music.
INDY Week |
Grayson Currin |
01-31-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Wilco, Glenn Kotche
The Craigslist Killer and Other Scary Worlds of Lifetime Televisionnew
The world of Lifetime movies is one where if your teen only get pregnant, she's getting off easy.
Tags: The Craigslist Killer
Orquesta GarDel's Lo Que Tú Queríasnew
GarDel's debut EP is a tapas-size dish heaped with homemade salsa that should appease appetites hungry for a high quality, first-rate studio recording of original Latin music made in North Carolina.
Tags: Orquesta GarDel
David Banner & 9th Wonder's Death of a Pop Starnew
On Death of a Pop Star, Banner finally forgoes ignorant trunk rattlers to focus solely on poignant, politically loaded raps.
Tags: David Banner
A Breakfast of Championsnew
It was with a skeptic's palate that I decided to try a made-from-scratch recipe in The Kid-Friendly Food Allergy Cookbook.
INDY Week |
Joyce Clark Hicks |
01-17-2011 |
Food+Drink
Tags: Food Allergy Cookbook
Rabbit Hole Explores the Grieving Processnew
A simple scene on a park bench walloped me emotionally like no film in recent memory.
Rapsody's Return of the B-Girlnew
B-Girl continues Rapsody's ascension toward the level of even her most prominent collaborators, male and female.
Tags: Return of the B-Girl
A Docudrama of a Notorious Unsolved Murder in Americanew
All Good Things is the only slightly fictionalized story of real-life millionaire Robert A. Durst, who is suspected of murdering his wife, who disappeared in 1982.
New Literary Journal Bull Spec Celebrates First Anniversarynew
Bull Spec is a magazine of "speculative fiction," a catchall term for sci-fi, horror, epic fantasy, superheroes, sword-and-sorcery and alternate history. There's nothing quite like it.
INDY Week |
Brian Howe |
01-10-2011 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Bull Spec
Heather Havrilesky Discusses New Memoir and Working for Rupert Murdochnew
Havrilesky defends against mass-produced media meteors by hurling her own fine-tuned bits of sarcasm and "grumpy" insights into the mix, and there's no denying she's been successful.
INDY Week |
Lindsay Parker |
01-06-2011 |
Nonfiction
