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Local Poet Jeffery Beam's Latest Volume, Gospel Earthnew
Everything you are not noticing in the natural world has been captured in this book.
INDY Week |
Jaimee Hills |
10-25-2010 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Gospel Earth
The Latest of Woody Allen's Light, Somewhat Entertaining, Late-Period Comedies!new
Yes, You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger is yet another Woody Allen movie. And that's precisely the reason to celebrate it.
Walking in Black Women's Footstepsnew
Two important new histories of the Civil Rights movement.
INDY Week |
Adam Sobsey |
10-25-2010 |
Nonfiction
Gray Young's staysailnew
To Gray Young's credit, the group doesn't settle for making the same record twice.
Tags: Gray Young
Last Year's Mennew
Not quite out of high school, Last Year's Men have made one of the year's most addictive records.
INDY Week |
Grayson Currin |
10-25-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Last Year's Men
Maple Stave Speaks With Its Musicnew
As a band, they're better than ever before on their new LP1. As analysts of their own music, they still struggle.
INDY Week |
Grayson Currin |
10-14-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Maple Stave
The Ironies and Energy of La Excelencia's Hard Salsanew
Powered by old-fashioned methods and ideals, La Excelencia has attracted the label "steam salsa" from one critic—they're taking an obsolete power source and retrofitting it for the modern age.
INDY Week |
Sylvia Pfeiffenberger |
10-14-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: La Excelencia
Cattle Decapitation: Metal Vocals Are More Than Just Screamingnew
The first complaint is never the squealing guitars or abrupt rhythms; the vocals are always the obstacle, and one often worth overcoming.
INDY Week |
Bryan Reed |
10-13-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Cattle Decapitation
Damaged Goods in Philip Seymour Hoffman's Jack Goes Boatingnew
Jack Goes Boating attempts to offer a satisfying portrait of two people falling in love. Given its talented two leads, it falls surprisingly short of this modest ambition.
Tags: Jack Goes Boating
Working Things Out in Funny Storynew
It's Kind of a Funny Story reaches for an ironic, self-aware tone but doesn't transcend its young adult fiction origins.
Minus Sound Research Has Nearly Perfected Its Formulanew
Minus Sound Research, which curates and presents the visual art of local musicians in galleries, reinvents itself for its fifth-anniversary show.
INDY Week |
Brian Howe |
10-08-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Minus Sound Research
There's Nothing Scary About This Halloween Candynew
Allergen-safe All Hallows' Eve treats.
INDY Week |
Joyce Clark Hicks |
10-07-2010 |
Food+Drink
Deer Huntnew
I didn't see his face till he was right there, frozen for an instant where I was expecting to see more road.
Tags: Hunting
Knock, Knock. Who's there? The FBInew
A Durham man is targeted by the feds as part of widespread raids in the U.S.
INDY Week |
Lisa Sorg |
10-01-2010 |
Civil Liberties
Former Immigration Official Sentenced to Prisonnew
Bedri Kulla, a former immigration services official, tried to woo a 23-year-old undocumented immigrant from El Salvador. And when she ignored his advances, he attempted to have her deported.
Now he is going to jail.
INDY Week |
Rebekah L. Cowell |
10-01-2010 |
Immigration
