AltWeeklies Wire
'Shoot 'Em Up' Provides Silly Thrillsnew
Shoot ’Em Up is the most audacious, over-the-top and gleefully depraved movie in recent memory, supplying a nonstop stream of giddy thrills as it chucks logic and science and common sense out the window.
Birmingham Weekly |
Carey Norris |
09-18-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Michael Davis, Shoot 'Em Up
The Alabama National Guard Prepares for Warnew
For five weeks this past July and August, 36 men and women from across Alabama trained in counter-insurgency warfare at Ft. Bragg, N.C., for their deployment to the Middle East, and we joined them.
Birmingham Weekly |
Bill Sasser |
09-18-2007 |
War
'Halloween' is a Bloody Messnew
Rob Zombie's remake is a trick but no treat.
Birmingham Weekly |
Carey Norris |
09-10-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Halloween, Rob Zombie
9/11: Six Years Later, Are We Any Safer?new
On this September 11, even as bin Laden remains at large, we are still waist-deep in The Big Sandy, with a mission lacking closure and yet another demand for supplemental billions of dollars in funding for endless war en route from the White House to Congress for a likely rubber-stamped approval.
Birmingham Weekly |
Courtney Haden |
09-10-2007 |
Commentary
Human Rights, Coal and Capitalism in Colombianew
The families of three slain Colombian union leaders have come to Birmingham, Ala., to sue Drummond Ltd. for choosing sides in the civil war and abetting the right-wing paramilitaries in exchange for protection for its enormous open-pit coal mine.
Birmingham Weekly |
Kyle Whitmire |
07-23-2007 |
International
Tags: international
Birmingham's Fill in the Blank Budgetnew
Council, mayor choose their own adventure.
Birmingham Weekly |
Kyle Whitmire |
07-16-2007 |
Politics
Obama in 'Bama, Brieflynew
Rockstar? No doubt. Maker of history? Perhaps. Footnote in history? Also a maybe.
Birmingham Weekly |
Courtney Haden |
07-16-2007 |
Politics
Gov. Don Siegelman's Squandered Legacy of Promisenew
Siegelman can deny charges against him all he wants, but he cannot refute that his administration allowed the foulest elements of Alabama politics to hold sway in Montgomery.
Birmingham Weekly |
Kyle Whitmire |
07-02-2007 |
Politics
Reunited Blue Mountain Reinvents the Same Old Songnew
It's all love between former husband and wife Cary Hudson and Laurie Stirrat and the ghost that hovers just out of sight in all their songs: The South.
Birmingham Weekly |
Daisy Winfrey |
07-02-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Blue Mountain
Going Fissionnew
As the government continues to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to subsidize nuclear power with all its drawbacks, it sets aside only a pittance for research into and development of truly renewable energy sources -- perhaps that's because our national power policy is to sustain only the coal, oil, gas and nuclear energy providers.
Birmingham Weekly |
Courtney Haden |
07-02-2007 |
Commentary
Keeping Jon Stewart is No Laughing Matter for Comedy Centralnew
It'll take big money to retain Stewart at The Daily Show's anchor desk when his contract comes up for renewal next year.
Birmingham Weekly |
Courtney Haden |
06-25-2007 |
TV
Tags: TV
Jeremy Harper's One to a Million Shotnew
He's going to count to a million live on his website (Millioncount.com) -- as far as anyone can tell, this has never been done before.
Birmingham Weekly |
Kyle Whitmire |
06-25-2007 |
Culture
The Rosebuds' Narrative Arcnew
This North Carolina duo is anything but a traditional Southern band.
Birmingham Weekly |
John Seay |
06-25-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Rosebuds
How Now, Mad Cow?new
Beef eaters beware -- safety may be sent packing.
Birmingham Weekly |
Courtney Haden |
06-11-2007 |
Animal Issues
Tags: animal issues
Topper Price, 1952-2007new
Final memories of a Birmingham music icon.
Birmingham Weekly |
Phillip Jordan |
05-29-2007 |
Music
