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'Cold Souls' Has a Charlie Kaufman Premise, but it's Not a Charlie Kaufman Movienew
Sophie Barthes is a French writer-director, and this is her first feature. And it's no great criticism to say that her ideas, well, they get away from her.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
08-24-2009 |
Reviews
With 'The Waxman Report' Henry Waxman Shows 'How Congress Really Works'new
Assisted by Joshua Green, a senior editor at the Atlantic, Waxman has written an informative, fast-moving manifesto against the gut-the-government politics that have been in vogue since the Reagan administration.
Chicago Reader |
Mick Dumke |
08-24-2009 |
Nonfiction
Those Who Practice Bestiality Say They're Part of the Next Sexual Rights Movementnew
Most researchers believe 2 to 8 percent of the population harbors forbidden desires toward animals. Cody Beck believes he and other members of this minority sexual orientation, who often call themselves "zoos," can follow the same path as the gay rights movement.
Miami New Times |
Thomas Francis |
08-24-2009 |
Sex
The Kids on the Bus: The Never-Ending Trouble With School Integrationnew
Fifty-five years after Brown; 45 years after the Civil Rights Act; and 34 years after Louisville started busing, the issue remains controversial. Consensus seems elusive, and like so many things in contemporary life, one's views may hinge on whose ox is being gored.
LEO Weekly |
Cary Stemle |
08-21-2009 |
Education
Dr. Feelbad: When This Physician Went Haywire, No One Intervened to Shut Him Downnew
A month after trashing his patients' charts, Alexander Kalk somehow managed to open a new practice less than half a mile away from his old one. It lasted only a few months. Kalk was more than $1 million in debt, with his medical license in jeopardy, when he abruptly left the state in March of this year. He did not surface again until June 21, when he was arrested by Clayton police on suspicion of forging checks belonging to his estranged business partner.
Riverfront Times |
Keegan Hamilton |
08-21-2009 |
Science
Three Hot Nashville Acts Present a New Breed of Female Songwriternew
Those Darlins, Caitlin Rose and Tristen are songwriters who draw on decades-old traditional folk, country and pop to tell provocative tales from an unabashedly female perspective.
Nashville Scene |
Tracy Moore |
08-21-2009 |
Music
'Inglourious Basterds' Brings Late-Career Glory to Christoph Waltznew
It's a familiar part of the Tarantino mythos -- the director plucks a faded star from the brink of obscurity and restores him or her to their former glory. Only, unlike John Travolta, Pam Grier and others before him, Waltz was never that kind of star in the first place.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
08-21-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Modest Mouse's Latest Compilation is a Surprisingly Solid Offeringnew
No One's First and You're Next is a collection of b-sides and singles that didn't quite make it onto a LP. But the songs aren't just mere outtakes. Included with a couple of new tracks are full re-recordings of the previously shelved tracks, making the album feel far from a group of oddities thrown together.
At Least Four North Carolina Dems Hope to Unseat Sen. Richard Burr in 2010new
Any of them has a good chance to win next year's Democratic primary, but whether they can beat Burr depends on the amount of money the candidates raise, the national sentiment toward Dems and the cachet the Democratic nominee carries, not only in the state's progressive locales, but in more conservative regions in the mountains and down east.
A New Program by Slow Food USA Seeks to Improve School Lunchesnew
As school starts again for students over the next few weeks, the time is right to demand a school-lunch program that benefits kids rather than one that gives agribusiness a place to dump its surplus, publicly subsidized commodities.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Stett Holbrook |
08-21-2009 |
Food+Drink
Quentin Tarantino Serves Up Hitler's Head in 'Inglourious Basterds'new
Inglourious Basterds has next to nothing to do with Jews, Nazis or World War II, though Winston Churchill has a funny cameo and Joseph Goebbels a minor, if crucial, role as a twisted auteur of nationalist cinema. It's a highly entertaining, graphically bloody and woozily romantic romp.
L.A. Weekly |
Ella Taylor |
08-21-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Quentin Tarantino Talks About Rewriting the Spaghetti Western With a Side of Sour Krautsnew
Here's the thing about interviewing Quentin Tarantino: His need to talk about movies is irrepressible. His insatiable hunger dominates the conversation, and his knowledge of and fascination with the work of other filmmakers are as intense and intimate as his reflections on his own career.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
08-20-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
'Tetro' Aspires to Opera but Plays Like a Power Balladnew
Francis Ford Coppola's latest is by no means as tragically ambitious as Youth Without Youth, thus it makes much less of a mess when it collapses under its own weight as Youth Without Youth does. In fact, what hampers Tetro is not its surfeit of ideas and narrative impenetrability but, rather, its insufficiency of thematic hooks and dramatic content.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
08-20-2009 |
Reviews
'Post Grad' Doesn't Make the Gradenew
Bland to the point of pointlessness, Post Grad follows the inane highs and lows of a perky young optimist.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
08-20-2009 |
Reviews
Tags: Post Grad, Vicky Jenson
College Guide: Stoner Food 101new
Mom thinks the Dining Plan will fully feed her beloved scholar. What Mom doesn't know is that they're too stoned to get to the dining hall and are subsisting on Nutella.
North Bay Bohemian |
Gretchen Giles |
08-20-2009 |
Food+Drink
