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Ira's Glass Menagerienew
With a stable of brainy producers and pop-star essayists, This American Life host Ira Glass is leading a revenge of the nerds, public-radio style.
Tags: radio
Forest for the Treesnew
Through all of its obvious symbolism, thinly sketched characters, portentous filmmaking technique and vague narrative, writer-director Nicole Kassell's The Woodsman remains an affecting piece of work.
Tags: Nicole Kassell, The Woodsman
Amazing Gracenew
Grace under pressure is one of the key themes to Terry George's Hotel Rwanda, which chronicles Paul Rusesabagina's miraculous efforts in 1994 that saved the lives of some 1,200 people.
Tags: Terry George, Hotel Rwanda
War-Torn and Lovelornnew
Jean-Pierre Jeunet's latest is what a sweeping epic of love and war should be: beautiful and ugly all at once, dramatic on a grand, yet thoroughly calibrated, scale.
Simple Pleasuresnew
The year's best CDs demonstrated craft and brains, whether it's the immaculate, melodic pop of Ron Sexsmith's Revolver or Van Hunt's nuanced take on love and lust. With the war and election as a cultural backdrop, warmth and intelligence were far more personally useful than jagged, new wave by Franz Ferdinand and the like.
The Top 10 in a Year of Solid Filmmakingnew
While there were no real masterpieces in 2004, there were enough solid films to make two serviceable top-10 lists of equal value.
Fresh Breathnew
"Fresh Air" host Terry Gross talks about the art of the interview, her new book, and wrestling with Bill O'Reilly.
Tags: media
Ocean Wonderlandnew
Can a filmmaker show artistic growth from one film to the next without necessarily having made a "better" film? When it comes to Wes Anderson's fourth film, The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou, that's a tough question to answer -- but one that deserves asking.
The Paper's Trailnew
Across the country, workers at chain-owned newspapers are coming to the aid of management at a family-owned daily in Youngstown, Ohio.
Tags: labor
Southern Dexteritynew
Whether as an author, editor, anthropologist or chowhound, John T. Edge looks at food from every angle.
Gambit |
Sara Roahen |
10-25-2004 |
Food+Drink
Family Albumnew
The photograph collectors depicted in the new documentary Other People's Pictures seem to be trying to recapture the human touch.
The Lady in Graynew
The cross-dressing Confederate soldier Loreta Janeta Velazquez, aka Lt. Harry Buford, is receiving renewed attention from historians and is the subject of an upcoming documentary.
George McGovern on Liberalism's Past, Present and Future
In a Q&A interview, statesman George McGovern discusses the current presidential race and his views that Democrats should own up to being liberal.
Federal Detention Center Holds Immigrants in Exilenew
When Linden Corrica was picked up with marijuana in New York City, the feds sent him to Oakdale, La. This summer, his wife and daughter journeyed to Louisiana to try to find out if he's ever coming home.
Gambit |
Frank Etheridge |
08-24-2004 |
Immigration
The Last Don's Act: No Politics, No F-Words, No Mercynew
From New York to Las Vegas to Bay St. Louis, Don Rickles is still on the prowl. And that's no insult.
Gambit |
Michael Tisserand |
08-24-2004 |
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