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If I Only Was McCainnew
To be sung to the tune of "If I Only Had a Brain."
New Haven Advocate |
Christopher Arnott |
10-28-2008 |
Commentary
Special Interest Money Leaks into Connecticut's First 'Clean' Electionnew
Why should we be surprised to learn that powerful labor unions and deep-pocketed campaign donors are funneling tens of thousands of dollars into Connecticut's first ever publicly-funded election?
New Haven Advocate |
Andy Bromage |
10-28-2008 |
Politics
Lewis Black is on the Road Again and Still Very Pissed Offnew
The thing is, Black talks most about the things that make him angry. And when I asked him about Sen. John McCain, his Democratic rival for the presidency, Sen. Barack Obama, and all the noise and whistles that come with the campaign, he got angry.
New Haven Advocate |
David Riedel |
10-28-2008 |
Performance
Paris, Je T'aime: Un Petit Sojourn to the City of Lightsnew
Paris is a delicious bouillabaisse of a city: A little bit of New York, a dash of Boston, and a hefty dollop of London, but with a taste and style all its own.
New Haven Advocate |
Erik Sweet |
10-28-2008 |
Travel
My Brightest Diamond Smooths Some Rough Edgesnew
The push and pull between the classical conventions in which Shara Worden was schooled and her craving for rhythm informs this year's A Thousand Shark's Teeth, the second proper My Brightest Diamond album.
New Haven Advocate |
Brian LaRue |
10-28-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Dude, Where's My Bailout?new
The newspaper biz could use some government help too. An open letter to Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson.
New Haven Advocate |
Andy Bromage |
09-25-2008 |
Economy
Dave Attell Rips Hecklers and Kills with Jokes About Horse Sexnew
He is one of the dirtiest, riskiest and funniest comedians on the scene today. But if you ask Dave Attell what he's trying to be, he says he's just trying to be funny -- dirty and risky are by-products.
New Haven Advocate |
Erin Lynch |
09-16-2008 |
Performance
Steve Earle Talks Music, Politics and Addictionnew
Earle's resurrection after being released from jail in the mid-1990s is remarkable, and few would dispute that he is today one of the best songwriters in the world. And he always seasons his songs with powerful political messages that rise above the polemical.
New Haven Advocate |
Jim Motavalli |
09-16-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
The Democrats' Very Happy Partynew
No street riots. No Hillary rebellion. Denver may have been a media-saturated clusterfuck, but it was a peaceful one.
New Haven Advocate |
Tom Tomorrow |
09-09-2008 |
Politics
Getting Under the Hood of James Wood's New Fiction Manifestonew
The critical response can only be personal, which is why critics have had so much fun reviewing this earnest, intelligent and cranky little book. The problem with the overambitious title is easily solved by adding a simple preposition between title and author: How Fiction Works For James Wood.
New Haven Advocate |
Jolisa Gracewood |
09-02-2008 |
Nonfiction
Would Lowering the Drinking Age Help Colleges Battle Dorm-Room Binges?new
Some 128 college and university presidents have signed onto the Amethyst Initiative, a proposal that calls for "an informed and dispassionate public debate over the effects of the 21-year-old drinking age."
New Haven Advocate |
Jayne Keedle |
09-02-2008 |
Food+Drink
Connecticut Tax Dollars Subsidize a Film Industry That Doesn't Need the Helpnew
The state is betting a small fortune on Connecticut becoming a viable home to the film industry, offering production companies the most generous tax breaks in the country and paying film union members upwards of half a million dollars to train a hundred or so people to do film jobs they may never get.
New Haven Advocate |
Andy Bromage |
08-26-2008 |
Movies
Laura Cantrell is Not the Least Bit Rock and Rollnew
Cantrell's path to a career in country was hardly straight, though her stint as a tour guide at the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville was probably useful.
New Haven Advocate |
Jim Motavalli |
08-19-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Race Bait '08: Race in the Presidential Racenew
Race exploded into the campaign two weeks ago when McCampaign accused Obama of playing his racial ace by pointing out that he doesn't look like the presidents on dolla dolla bills, y'all. And ObamaRama said McCain's lackey's comment was the only race thing here, and so on.
New Haven Advocate |
Rachel Slajda |
08-19-2008 |
Commentary
Ralph Nader, Bob Barr and Cynthia McKinney Find Common Groundnew
In a rare show of third party unity, the campaigns of Nader, Libertarian Bob Barr and the Green Party's Cynthia McKinney, the last two former Congress members, are joining forces across state lines to overcome ballot access rules designed to keep minor party candidates out.
New Haven Advocate |
Andy Bromage |
08-19-2008 |
Politics
