AltWeeklies Wire
Just Like Hell...But Worse
Reese Witherspoon and Mark Ruffalo are better off dead in this rote rom com with a euthanasia twist.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
09-15-2005 |
Reviews
The Naked Citynew
Author Nick Tyler spends "Another Bullshit Night" with his homeless father and his fractured memories.
Columbus Alive |
Melissa Starker |
09-15-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Get 'Em While They're Young
A children's author provides a primer in the politics of fear for tomorrow's Republicans.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
09-14-2005 |
Fiction
Baker On Baker
Cartoonist Kyle Baker throws himself into his work like never before, and then gets serious with a new Nat Turner biography.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
09-14-2005 |
Original Work
Who's on Top?
An ass-obsessed buddy cop comedy is predictably crappy.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
09-08-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Les Mayfield, The Man
Law & Order: Special Exorcism Unit
Is The Exorcism of Emily Rose as good as The Exorcist? No. Is it occasionally as scary? Yes.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
09-08-2005 |
Reviews
Trashy Beach Reading -- in Convenient Movie Form
It wasn't meant to be a romantic comedy, but this overheated romance gets so overwrought it's often laugh-out-loud hilarious.
Columbus Alive |
Melissa Starker |
09-08-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: asylum, David Mackenzie
Bear With Him
Alternative cartoonist Neil Swaab dares to go "There" and tell the wrongest jokes -- up to and including ones about molesting kids -- with the help of one very disturbed teddy bear.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
09-08-2005 |
Original Work
Running On Empty
Sure gas prices are getting astronomical, but at least we still have gas to pay a lot of money for. As Richard Heinberg vividly illustrates, that might not always be the case.
Columbus Alive |
Nikki Davis |
09-08-2005 |
Nonfiction
Viva Las Vegasnew
A nascent photographer finds the neon graveyard for signs of Sin City's past, and shares the results.
Columbus Alive |
Melissa Starker |
09-08-2005 |
Art
O.S. Chewnew
Here's a gameday game plan for finding good grub on the way to Ohio State home games.
Columbus Alive |
G.A. Benton |
09-08-2005 |
Food+Drink
Apocalypse Nownew
After one of the worst weeks in American memory, one has to wonder if it's the end of the world as we know it, or just the end of the United States as we know it?
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
09-08-2005 |
Commentary
G. I. Jihadi
A new comic book series Black Heart Irregulars attacks the Iraq War head on.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
09-02-2005 |
Fiction
An Abstract 'Animal Farm'
George Saunders' strange political allegory plays out in an even stranger setting.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
09-01-2005 |
Fiction
Scotch Guardnew
Alasdair Roberts talks about his folk preservations, modern revisions and new collection of centuries-old death ballads.
Columbus Alive |
Stephen Slaybaugh |
09-01-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
