AltWeeklies Wire
Lion in Winternew
Venus works in large part because O'Toole's mere presence helps you relate to Maurice's history and battles with old age -- it's not just a random old man getting a prostate exam, it's Lawrence of Arabia being jellyfingered.
Tuscan Romancenew
Author Elizabeth Spencer discusses the decades-long process of turning her celebrated novella into the celebrated musical The Light in the Piazza, now touring the U.S.
Ordinary Madnessnew
Parker is a natural comedian, his ear is keen and close to the ground, and his search for a soul-cure is so genuine, so devout, that his occasional aerobatics of purplish lyricism don't fly away with his stories.
Bright Spot in Dismal Oscar Seasonnew
"Worst. Oscars. Ever." The admirably concise e-mail from a critic friend handily summed up my own reaction to last week's announcement of the Academy Award nominations.
Queens and Kingsnew
Ten minutes in to Blossoming, you've not only entered a story but a world of indelible images, rituals, textures, eccentricities.
Female Troublenew
Penelope Cruz's magnificent, Oscar-nominated performance also marks a welcome return to Spain from the wife-and-girlfriend ghetto of her disappointing Hollywood sojourn.
Changing Channelsnew
What does a state cable franchise mean for North Carolina's TV watchers?
Tags: media
Persistence in a Bottlenew
It took almost 20 years and eight albums, but The Bottle Rockets frontman Brian Henneman finally did it: He made the album he wanted to make.
INDY Week |
Rick Cornell |
01-25-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Bottle Rockets
The Progressive Prescriptionnew
How the General Assembly can cure the North Carolina's biggest ills.
The Dogs of Warnew
Letters From Iwo Jima and The Good German are both turkeys -- though of an interestingly similar sort.
Whose Limbs Shatter Mountainsnew
The marvelous, harder-than-fiction decade of Fin Fang Foom.
INDY Week |
Brian Howe |
01-19-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Fin Fang Foom
UNC Inc.new
Ignoring its mission, our university raised tuition as its hospital reduced access for the poor -- while rewarding leaders with big bonuses.
Tags: Education
Oriented Sexualitynew
Adulterous women are at the center of two new films set in China -- Curse of the Golden Flower and The Painted Veil.
Recuse Yourselfnew
Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong should step down from the Duke lacrosse case.
INDY Week |
Richard Hart |
01-11-2007 |
Commentary
Building Improvisational Structuresnew
Chicago percussionist Michael Zerang advocates self-reliance and community.
INDY Week |
Grayson Currin |
01-11-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Michael Zerang
