AltWeeklies Wire
Buttercup's Strong Finishnew
When Buttercup plotted their three-EPs-in-a-year crusade to bring extreme productivity back to music, The Head Sits Upside Down on the Top of the Head was conceived as the weird finale.
San Antonio Current |
Gilbert Garcia |
02-13-2008 |
Reviews
Get Ecoerotic With Green Sex Toysnew
Your vibrator could be the reason for someone else's unnaturally tiny penis. Really.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Molly Freedenberg |
02-13-2008 |
Environment
Tags: environment
The Shelter Shufflenew
Inside San Francisco's confounding system of housing the homeless.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Amanda Witherell |
02-13-2008 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
Beaten to the Pulpnew
The Blue Heron Paper Company is a model of sustainability -- but it's struggling to survive.
Willamette Week |
Nigel Jaquiss |
02-13-2008 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
FBI Agent Uses His Daughter's Pic to Lure Accused Predatornew
It's a case straight out of crime TV. A high-powered Seattle lawyer finds a 14-year-old girl in an internet chat room and talks her into meeting him for some kinky sex in a hotel. But when he shows up at a Portland MAX stop for the promised spanking session, he gets handcuffed by FBI agents, who were posing as the girl online to snare sexual predators.
Willamette Week |
James Pitkin |
02-13-2008 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Absolutely No Ideanew
The avant-garde No Idea Festival's early editions focused primarily on Texas artists, but founder Chris Cogburn has broadened the geographic and cultural range of the festival considerably this year.
San Antonio Current |
Gilbert Garcia |
02-13-2008 |
Concerts
Tags: No Idea Festival, concerts
Subversive Suppers: Sneak Peeks into Secret Eatingsnew
Supper clubs dance on the fine line between dinner party and illegal restaurant. It's basically just a bunch of hungry people getting together for a meal, yet once you start charging money at the door or passing around a donation jar, some would say it becomes something else.
Dig Boston |
Jennifer Cacicio |
02-13-2008 |
Food+Drink
Neptune Goes Extra Big in '08new
Neptune is a three-man sculpture/electrical engineering/performance team who build their gear by hand; a mess of barrels, blades, auto scrap and other miscellany both domestic and industrial, all modded with electronics.
Dig Boston |
Daniel Lopatin |
02-13-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Neptune
Tough Love in Jerusalemnew
The seventh-annual edition of the San Antonio Jewish Film Festival, screening at the San Antonio Museum of Art February 16-21, surpasses its predecessors in range and artistry.
San Antonio Current |
Steven G. Kellman |
02-13-2008 |
Movies
'The Spiderwick Chronicles': A Surprising Addition to a Saturated Genrenew
Shockingly, watching Nickelodeon Movies' latest release is much like a newborn baby's very first breath of air.
Dig Boston |
Josh Elmets |
02-13-2008 |
Reviews
Don't Mess With the Formulanew
Burnout Paradise loses some of its party appeal and the Simpsons finally have a decent video game.
San Antonio Current |
Jeremy Martin |
02-13-2008 |
Video Games
Tags: video games
New World Second Labelsnew
In France, a second-label wine is often made from the same grapes as the first-growths, which are strictly limited as to yield and production and can thus be both a good introduction to the rarefied world of vintage Bordeaux and a relative bargain.
San Antonio Current |
Ron Bechtol |
02-13-2008 |
Food+Drink
Sex Workers' Art Show: More Than Bang for the Bucknew
The show is a humanizing, edifying, fun and possibly even moral event for anyone who has cast wanton eyes on a sex worker.
Dig Boston |
Marli Guzzetta |
02-13-2008 |
Performance
Tags: performance
To Be, or To Be Autonautsnew
Julio Cortazar and Carol Dunlop parody the travel book and reinvent the road story.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Nicole Gluckstern |
02-13-2008 |
Fiction
The Backstage Passes and Musings of Dean & Brittanew
Indie-rock gossip hounds might be interested to know that Wareham and Phillips didn't become a couple immediately after they met -- and they kept it on the down low even after they hooked up. Wareham promises to tell all in his new memoir, Black Postcards, which will be published by Penguin in March.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Marcus Crowder |
02-13-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Dean & Britta
