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A Feast of Edible Weeds in Torontonew
For the first time this summer, Toronto will hand out fines (up to $5,000) to laggards who persist in drenching our edible surroundings in a chemical haze. This means I can grab a free, nutritious snack without an unwanted side order of toxins.
NOW Magazine |
Roger Brook |
04-18-2008 |
Food+Drink
Dining on the Wildsnew
Tips for happy foraging.
NOW Magazine |
Staff |
04-18-2008 |
Food+Drink
Tags: foraging
Five New Ideas That Could Change the Worldnew
All right, so you've mastered some steps to greening your life [insert hearty applause], but so far no fairy dust has descended to save us from... well, ourselves. Crap.
NOW Magazine |
Adria Vasil |
04-18-2008 |
Environment
Tags: environment
You're in Good Hands with Woodhandsnew
"I guess we do rock some funk styles," says Dan Werb. Understandably, he's wary of the "post-funk" tag that has been flung at Woodhands, who rock several styles simultaneously.
Montreal Mirror |
Lorraine Carpenter |
04-18-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Woodhands
Cadence Weapon Follows His Own Rhythm to the Topnew
Amid building buzz for his sophomore effort, Afterparty Babies, the Edmonton MC/producer talks about growing up weird and getting ahead in the loaded game of Canadian hip-hop.
Montreal Mirror |
Scott C. |
04-18-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Afterparty Babies, Cadence Weapon
'Emotional Arithmetic' is a Lackluster Adaptationnew
Despite a knockout cast, this film based on Matt Cohen's critically acclaimed novel of the same name, feels distant.
Montreal Mirror |
Matthew Hays |
04-18-2008 |
Reviews
How Class Caricatures Could Blow it for the Democratsnew
Democrats have a problem explaining progressive economic policies when they've been successfully caricatured as cultural elitists and snobs who sneer at the tastes, faith, gender roles, and economic aspirations of working people. Thus the unfortunate vulnerability of Barack Obama.
Artvoice |
Bruce Fisher |
04-18-2008 |
Commentary
Many St. Louis Theater Companies are Homelessnew
In the good old days, if Hollywood musicals are to be believed, all an aspiring impresario needed to stage a successful show was an abandoned barn and a dream.
Riverfront Times |
Aimee Levitt |
04-18-2008 |
Theater
Al Pacino Plays Beat the Clock in '88 Minutes'new
Jon Avnet's cheesy new thriller is 105 minutes long, and going in, I feared that 100 of them would be eaten up by Al Pacino chewing the furniture. Alas, it's worse than that.
L.A. Weekly |
Ella Taylor |
04-18-2008 |
Reviews
Coachella by the Numbersnew
Any critic can blather about which bands to see. What if we poke out the critical eye and instead consult our all-seeing Third Eye -- which conjures solid numbers, statistics, pie charts and bar graphs and turns the ephemeral joys of music into cold, hard data? What constitutes -- numerically -- musical hotness in the USA in 2008?
L.A. Weekly |
Randall Roberts |
04-18-2008 |
Concerts
'88 Minutes' Wastes Timenew
For a guy who's just been told he has less than an hour and a half to live, Al Pacino sure does seem relaxed.
NOW Magazine |
Norman Wilner |
04-18-2008 |
Reviews
'Ben X' Boresnew
First-time director Nic Balthazar has already worked this fact-based material as a novel and a play. At bottom, he seems to be making a plea for tolerance and understanding for the autistic; what he's put on the screen is a merely okay problem drama.
NOW Magazine |
Andrew Dowler |
04-18-2008 |
Reviews
'The Forbidden Kingdom': A Thoroughly Enjoyable Action Flicknew
It's also a smart and loving tribute to the genre that unobtrusively enhances the fun for knowledgeable kung fu movie fans.
NOW Magazine |
Andrew Dowler |
04-18-2008 |
Reviews
'The Big 4-0' Isn't Quite 'My Super Sweet 16' for the Middle-Agednew
Perhaps there's more distasteful wallowing to come, but at least in its first episode, 4-0 is wholesome and bland.
Las Vegas Weekly |
Josh Bell |
04-18-2008 |
TV
Morgan Spurlock's Search for bin Laden is an Exercise in Crass Futilitynew
There may be worse movies out there right now, but none so utterly and dispiritingly pointless.
Las Vegas Weekly |
Mike D'Angelo |
04-18-2008 |
Reviews
