AltWeeklies Wire
Tough All Over
Gary Allan shows that he's at his best at when dealing with the hard stuff.
Washington City Paper |
Rachel Beckman |
12-09-2005 |
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St. Marxmen
This album could be your last chance to catch Danze and Fame before a stuttering cry of "G-g-g-g" replaces their trademark "Salute!"
Washington City Paper |
Sarah Godfrey |
12-09-2005 |
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Nobody's Fault but Mine
Max Ochs doesn't care that it's taken 35 years for people to notice his music. After all, the same thing happened to Mississippi John Hurt.
Washington City Paper |
Mike Keefe-Feldman |
12-09-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Mississippi Rising
The Coahoma County Survey deserves to be credited as a great success. And now it can be credited to all its participants.
Washington City Paper |
Avi Klein |
12-09-2005 |
Nonfiction
Ex Nihilo Vibes
It's more accessible than previous NNCK albums, but Qvaris still contains plenty that would unsettle most latte sippers.
Washington City Paper |
Brent Burton |
12-09-2005 |
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The Heart of the Clatter
Hole is listenable enough. It's even easy on the ears, as it were--which may or may not be the sole innovation that this latest generation of noisemakers has to offer. Of course, if that's the case, then what in the name of Merzbow is the point?
Washington City Paper |
Brent Burton |
12-09-2005 |
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If I'm Lion, I'm Dyin'
If you and your kids aren't already admirers of the book, Narnia just may bore the crap out of the whole family.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
12-09-2005 |
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Imperial Witnesses
To those who don't remember the Vietnam War, Winter Soldier may seem antique. Yet anyone who's been paying attention to the occupation of Iraq will recognize certain mind-sets, tactics, and weapons.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
12-09-2005 |
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Pseudo Arabia
Written and directed by Stephen Gaghan, who scripted Steven Soderbergh's structurally kindred Traffic, the intriguing but finally unsatisfying Syriana is the latest product of the Clooney-Soderbergh salutary-cinema factory.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
12-09-2005 |
Reviews
Age Before Beauty
Fiery Furnaces' new Rehearsing My Choir begins to grow on a critic after she listens to it roughly 23 times. Of course, spending nearly a day of your life with someone else's art-rock quasi-oral history won't appeal to just anybody.
Washington City Paper |
Anne Marson |
12-02-2005 |
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Spirits of Place
An art-house hit upon its original release 30 years ago, the film is the third of Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni's Anglo-American features. All three place a sociopolitical frame around the director's worldview.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
12-02-2005 |
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Psychic Territory
One subculture of America's rec-room repertory theaters supports Asian horror and revenge flicks that Hollywood sees mostly as grist for remakes, including the work of Kiyoshi Kurosawa, perhaps the most ambitious of J-horror directors.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
12-02-2005 |
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Rimin' & Stealin'
Anyone who requires proof that Ryan Reynolds can be funny, need only give the guy four minutes. That's the time it takes for Reynolds, swaddled in his Just Friends fat suit, to mouth the words to All-4-One's luv ballad "I Swear."
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
12-02-2005 |
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Weather Alert
The Ice Harvest certainly knows what kind of movie it is. In this Mob-world heist comedy, everyone's in on the scam.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
12-02-2005 |
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Under the Shinfluence
Oakland, Calif.'s, Rogue Wave is a perfect example of the new Sub Pop signee. Its music is mellow, catchy, and rooted in indie-rock tradition. It's not as blue-collar brutal as, say, Tad or Soundgarden, but it's not wholly without aggression or grandiosity, either.
Washington City Paper |
David Dunlap Jr. |
12-02-2005 |
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