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Be Your Own Pet Refuse to Grow Up and That's Goodnew
The group's second album sounds like a promise that even though she's no longer a teenager, we can still expect the Muppet-punk brattiness that animated the band's eponymous 2006 debut, which was known to blister paint at high volumes.
The Memphis Flyer |
Stephen Deusner |
04-04-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Be Your Own Pet, get awkward
Best Fare in the Airnew
In 2005, Midwest Airlines partnered with Shawn Monroe, executive chef at Mader's Restaurant, to create an innovative and remarkable buy-onboard dining service that features balanced, freshly prepared meals.
Shepherd Express |
Sarah Biondich |
04-04-2008 |
Food+Drink
How to Murder Your Wifenew
Sachs keeps the love-trianlge story in swift forward motion with moments of knife's edge suspense and surprises within surprises.
Shepherd Express |
David Luhrssen |
04-04-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Ira Sachs, Married Life
Ladysmith Black Mambazo Gets Historicalnew
Instead of glorifying violence -- Zulu imbued South Africans with an indomitable fighting spirit in the early 1800s -- Ilembe ("The Greatest Warrior") celebrates perseverance and commitment.
Shepherd Express |
Michael Popke |
04-04-2008 |
Reviews
How Vampire Weekend Channeled Africa Through New Yorknew
What is a young artist to make of a post-Giuliani, post-9/11 New York City?
Shepherd Express |
Michael Carriere |
04-04-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Vampire Weekend
R.E.M. Hurtles Toward the Future on 'Accelerate'new
At what point in a band's career is it impossible to evaluate its new album without referencing its back catalog?
Riverfront Times |
Annie Zaleski |
04-04-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Accelerate, r.e.m.
An L.A. Playwright's Struggle to Go Eastnew
Can Michael Elias make it there?
L.A. Weekly |
Steven Mikulan |
04-04-2008 |
Theater
Tags: theater
'Passing Strange': The L.A. Problemnew
His play is a Broadway hit, but don't ask Stew to come home again.
L.A. Weekly |
Judith Lewis |
04-04-2008 |
Theater
Tags: theater
Continental Divisiveness: New York and L.A. Theaternew
Separated by common values.
L.A. Weekly |
Steven Leigh Morris |
04-04-2008 |
Theater
Tags: theater
'Paranoid Park': The Soundtrack of Their Livesnew
Skate movie dispenses with the angst, surrounds itself with Nino Rota and Elliott Smith.
L.A. Weekly |
Randall Roberts |
04-04-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Various Artists, Paranoid Park
George Clooney Tackles Preglory Gridironnew

For the two hours it takes to watch it, Leatherheads is rarely less than very promising -- and also rarely more.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
04-04-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: George Clooney, Leatherheads
Caspar the Holy Ghostnew
This rock-star-turned-celebrity-preacher may be the phoniest guy you know.
Cleveland Scene |
Rebecca Meiser |
04-04-2008 |
Culture
What Hillary Clinton Doesn't Know About Gunshotsnew
Liar, liar under fire.
L.A. Weekly |
Marc Cooper |
04-04-2008 |
Commentary
The Assassin's Brothernew
The anonymity John Ray prefers will likely end this week when 50,000 copies of his book, Truth At Last: The Untold Story Behind James Earl Ray and the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., turn up in bookstores on the 40th anniversary of King's murder.
Riverfront Times |
Ellis E. Conklin |
04-04-2008 |
Race & Class
Tags: race relations
Subverting Dr. Kingnew
Has it really been 40 years since the death and martyrdom of Dr. Martin Luther King on that shattering April evening here in Memphis?
The Memphis Flyer |
Staff |
04-04-2008 |
Commentary