AltWeeklies Wire
UVA Dining Hall Adds Local, Organic Food to the Mixnew
Serena Weaver interned this semester for UVA dining supplier Aramark, helping the company include more local and organic fare at the University.
C-Ville Weekly |
Jayson Whitehead |
04-30-2008 |
Food+Drink
Election '08: Grading the Candidates on Sex Ednew
Planned Parenthood's Becky Reid on John McCain, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
C-Ville Weekly |
Scott Weaver |
04-30-2008 |
Politics
Bob Teitel Brings His Moviemaking Success Home to the Old Neighborhoodnew
A late February rain melts the snow that blankets Humboldt Park. Gray and wet, yet bustling with pedestrians. It's the first day above freezing in weeks, and the neighborhood is starring in its first major motion picture, called, fittingly, Humboldt Park.
Chicago Newcity |
Ed M. Koziarski |
04-30-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Australia's Cut Copy in Full 'Colours'new
More aligned with psyche-pop than straight-up pop, the Australian trio wax nostalgic and cite influences like Tangerine Dream, ELO and Krautrock.
Chicago Newcity |
Garin Pirnia |
04-30-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Cut Copy, In Ghost Colours
Tensions Between Fair-Trade and Local-First Movements Increasenew
Can today's moral standard be reconciled with the one from a few years ago? Is it possible to eat local and support farmers in developing countries? And should that be the goal in the first place?
Charleston City Paper |
Eric Blair |
04-30-2008 |
Food+Drink
Milhouse Takes Flight with a New Collectionnew
This Friday, the band releases a collection of rare birds, a six-song EP they recently recorded with Danny Kadar, the acclaimed producer known for his work with My Morning Jacket and Band of Horses, and the brain behind the smoothness of the Avett Brothers' Emotionalism.
Charleston City Paper |
Stratton Lawrence |
04-30-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Cracker's David Lowery Motors Aheadnew
The singer-guitarist has joyfully explored different pop and rock music sounds with his band Cracker since 1991 -- just a year after Lowery's California-based college radio rascals Camper Van Beethoven called it a day.
Charleston City Paper |
T. Ballard Lesemann |
04-30-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Playing Around with Sex Ednew
One girl in four has an sexually transmitted infection. Something has to change.
C-Ville Weekly |
Annette Owens |
04-30-2008 |
Sex
Behind the Scenes of 'Saturday Night Live' with Comedy Writer Bryan Tuckernew
The unseen workings of SNL are controlled chaos, the result of painstaking detail and hours of writing and rewriting. For Tucker, the funny white kid from the Virginia suburbs with a knack for riffing on hip-hop culture, it's the pinnacle.
Style Weekly |
Brent Baldwin |
04-30-2008 |
TV
Errol Morris and the Aesthetics of Evidencenew
While the endlessly loquacious and deeply political director has made a film about Abu Ghraib and the secondary victims (those who were punished of low rank and those of higher rank who created the atmosphere where such violations were possible were not), he's more interested in dissecting the meaning of photography.
Chicago Newcity |
Ray Pride |
04-30-2008 |
Reviews
Cecilia Tidlund, the Clog Mistressnew
The native of Sweden is the creator of Clogmaster, a line of traditionally Swedish clogs that has developed a devout following (thanks in part to her intense training with orthopedic surgeons).
Chicago Newcity |
Molly Each |
04-30-2008 |
Fashion
Some Northwestern Indie Labels May Survive the Music Industry Fluxnew
The music-industry paradigm has shifted, but many of the indies have succeeded where the monied megaliths have failed. A handful of trailblazers in the Northwest have successfully weathered the changing music climate, including two labels that have thrived for over a decade, one hitting its stride and one just getting off the ground.
Boise Weekly |
Amy Atkins |
04-29-2008 |
Music
Scott Biram Considers the Finer Points of Poultricidenew
"I'm not really any more crazy than most people," Biram insists.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Bill Forman |
04-29-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Filmmaker Eric Shiveley Talks About Music, Fame and Assless Chapsnew
He'll hate the comparison, but Shiveley brings to mind a thinking man's Paris Hilton: He usually travels with a posse of little dogs, and his new film, Everyone But You, is a sort of video docu-diary.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Jill Thomas |
04-29-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Eric Shiveley, Everyone But You
Indie Spirit Film Festival Hits Colorado Springsnew
The films range from don't-blink shorts to full-length features. Some avant-garde entries that defy categorization -- like Gods of Light, Idols of Mud, an experimental short with no dialogue, about three people escaping reality.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Jill Thomas |
04-29-2008 |
Movies
Tags: Colorado Springs, film festivals
