AltWeeklies Wire
Summer=Expensive, Derivative Movies. It's Almost Summer!new
Every summer, America presents to the world its greatest product: crappy movies. Because sometimes, we need to take a break from all of the wars we're fighting and the economies we're destroying and mortgages we're foreclosing on, and just have a really bad time at the theater.
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
05-07-2008 |
Movies
Soul Architectnew
Bassist Donald "Duck" Dunn, of Booker T. and the MGs, calls himself a part-time legend.
Tucson Weekly |
Gene Armstrong |
04-10-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
More Albums We Likednew
Music writers keep on sharing their 2007 faves.
Tucson Weekly |
Jarret Keene, Curtis McCrary and Stephen Seigel |
01-03-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Various Artists, Various Titles
Albums We Likednew
Our music writers do that music-writer thing and share their 2007 faves.
Tucson Weekly |
Gene Armstrong, Annie Holub and Linda Ray |
12-27-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Various Artists, Various Titles
Get Your 'Nog Onnew
It's a tradition: Our Jewish music editor reviews Christmas CDs we get in the mail!
Tucson Weekly |
Stephen Seigel |
12-19-2007 |
Reviews
Praiseworthy Poetrynew
These newly released collections prove that poetry isn't just for dead white guys.
Reno News & Review |
Kirk Robertson |
04-13-2006 |
Poetry
War and Peacenew
Since September 11, publishers have been rushing to publish non-fiction books about anything relating to the upheavals in the Middle East. They've been much slower about supplying us with imaginative tales from these regions, but the trickle has begun.
Boston Phoenix |
John Freeman |
01-03-2006 |
Fiction
Tags: Various Titles, Various Authors
Yule's Tidenew
A critic searches the season's discs for gems and finds that Elton John has better taste in Christmas pals than Martha Stewart.
Hear What We Hearnew
Don't waste your time at the local listening station comparing 20 versions of "Deck the Halls." The critics have already done that for you (ugh) to recommend the best seasonal albums of 2005.
Dallas Observer |
John Nova Lomax and Sam Machkovech |
12-21-2005 |
Reviews
The Hanukkah Songsnew
When it comes to music, Jewish songwriters and performers have played no small part in fostering confusion over the question of whether Hanukkah is the Jewish Christmas.
Class of '79new
B-Movie king Roger Corman goes back to "Rock 'n' Roll High School" in a wide-ranging interview about his career and the current state of the industry.
Columbus Alive |
Melissa Starker |
12-15-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Hey Santa, Download Thisnew
This year, it's all about single songs downloaded digitally and hardwired into the personal music device of your choice. That's right: Santa's making a playlist and checking it twice.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Tray Butler |
12-15-2005 |
Reviews
The Year in Musicnew
Music critics name the best in pop, heavy metal, underground black music, overlooked discs and more in a comprehensive look at 2005.
Houston Press |
John Nova Lomax, Sam Chennault and Dan Leroy, Frank Soults, Garrett Kamps, Scott Faingold, Tony Ware, Eric K. Arnold and Jason Bracelin |
12-14-2005 |
Music
The Village Voice's Favorite 25 Books of 2005new
The top books of the year cover subjects from teen sex diseases and Aztec slaughterhouses to Kiss riffs and juvenile tambourinists.
The Village Voice |
Staff Writers |
12-14-2005 |
Books
The Better To Givenew
These are not typical gift books. These are books for the rest of us -- books we would actually buy for ourselves, and our loved ones, be they geek or hipster, intellectual or meathead.
Boston Phoenix |
Boston Phoenix staff |
12-13-2005 |
Fiction
