AltWeeklies Wire
Cattle Concernsnew
After the news surrounding the latest beef recall, I have eaten my last hamburger.
Tucson Weekly |
Catherine O'Sullivan |
03-06-2008 |
Food+Drink
Life is Agonynew
Xiu Xu brings the pain.
The Portland Mercury |
Jenny Tatone |
03-06-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Xiu Xiu, Women as Lovers
Born Againnew
Panther's got a brand-new bag.
The Portland Mercury |
Andrew Tonry |
03-06-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
James Dunns Steps into Americana Shoesnew
On his second album, the Raleigh singer/songwriter CMT described as "one of America's top unsigned artists" finds himself aiming for heartland rock and mostly landing.
Tags: James Dunn, The Long Ride Home
Birds of Avalon Get Over Proving Themselvesnew
On Outer Upper Inner, feels relaxed but not content, confident but not overly so.
Tags: Birds of Avalon, Outer Upper Inner
Fresh Edutainmentnew
With this debut, Kooley High sounds less like a hip-hop contrivance with a stately objective and more like a few hip-hop fans who decided to get together one night, goof-off and rap to some beats. Thing is, they can actually make good songs.
Tags: Kooley High, Summer Session
Sightings Sounds Like the End of Everythingnew
When Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic novel The Road inevitably becomes a major motion picture, Brooklyn noise-rock trio Sightings should compose the score.
INDY Week |
Roque Strew |
03-06-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Sightings, Through the Panama
Drinking Songsnew
17 Hippies used to play for a few beers, but they still play their eclectic instruments in search of a good time
New York Press |
Ernest Barteldes |
03-06-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: 17 Hippies, Heimlich
Norway Meets New Yorknew
Hanne Hukkelberg plays with found sounds to create "sound pictures."
New York Press |
Christine Werthman |
03-06-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Hanne Hukkelberg, Rykestrasse 68
Nobody Loves a Nobodynew
If David Lynch remade Taxi Driver with equal doses of Eraserhead and The Elephant Man, the result might look something like the drab existential loneliness of Ronald Bronstein's Frownland.
New York Press |
Eric Kohn |
03-06-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Frownland, Ronald Bronstein
Yuppie Fictionnew
While David Gordon Green once exemplified the essence of independent filmmaking with his 2000 debut George Washington, his new film Snow Angels shows he has since fallen victim to indie film conventions.
New York Press |
Armond White |
03-06-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: David Gordon Green, Snow Angels
Poor Man's Gamenew
Don't be fooled into thinking Stephen Chow's film, a tribute to Spielberg's E.T., is kid stuff
New York Press |
Armond White |
03-06-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: CJ7, Stephen Chow
Dirty Old Man Voyeurismnew
Gus Van Sant still fetishizes skater boys with his stylized images of alienation.
New York Press |
Armond White |
03-06-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Gus Van Sant, Paranoid Park
Another Anti-Gay Initiative Filed in Oregonnew
Less than a month after same-sex couples started registering as domestic partners under a state law that lets them enjoy the same state rights and responsibilities as their married opposite-sex counterparts, anti-gay activists filed an initiative to repeal the law.
The Portland Mercury |
Amy J. Ruiz |
03-06-2008 |
LGBT
Tags: gay & lesbian issues
Lasagna Lessonsnew
You can do whatever you want to lasagna and people will love it. You can't mess it up. You can even use noodles the color and texture of cardboard. Nobody cares!
Santa Fe Reporter |
Gwyneth Doland |
03-06-2008 |
Food+Drink
