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Rocker Momsnew
The suburban-mothers rock band Hormone Replacement Therapy (average age 42) comes straight out of the garages of Sharon, Massachusetts.
Boston Phoenix |
Steven Lee Beeber |
10-10-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Wes Anderson Gets Back on Tracknew
Anderson, the director-guru of hipsters everywhere, has returned with his best film since Rushmore.
San Diego CityBeat |
Anders Wright |
10-10-2007 |
Reviews
'Cavemen' Needs a Little Evolutionnew
The idea of a sitcom based on an ad campaign doesn't exactly create a fervor of anticipation. But there are actually some surprises -- including decent, timely, pop-culture jokes -- to be unearthed in Cavemen, which exists in a bizarro-world that includes real, hairy Neanderthals living and dating among us.
San Diego CityBeat |
Anders Wright |
10-10-2007 |
TV
Tags: TV
Is Internet Populism Destined for Corporate Ruin?new
The threat is real -- if "net neutrality" is lost, we'll be getting most of our online content from the same media giants that dominate broadcast, cable, and print.
Boston Phoenix |
Dan Kennedy |
10-10-2007 |
Media
The DIY of the Deadnew
With face paint, good riffs and an obsession with death, The Creepy Creeps are making surf rock cool.
San Diego CityBeat |
AnnaMaria Stephens |
10-10-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Creepy Creeps
Long Duk Dong's Returnnew
Gedde Watanabe (of Sixteen Candles and ER fame) appears in the short film Fortune Hunters in San Diego Asian Film Festival. He thought the script both embraced and broke down the Asian stereotypes that often make their way into movies and that he himself has played on more than one occasion.
San Diego CityBeat |
Anders Wright |
10-10-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Fortune Hunters, Thom Harp
Easy Reading For Difficult Peoplenew
Stylistically, novelist Tom Perrotta is invisible, and his fictional milieu is half-dead. But we love him because he delivers so much.
Boston Phoenix |
James Parker |
10-10-2007 |
Fiction
The Year Of The Cheaternew
Why steroids, spying, and all those other sports scandals are actually good for fans.
Boston Phoenix |
Adam Reilly |
10-10-2007 |
Sports
Tags: sports & fitness
Shriiimp on the Barbienew
Shriiimp, an Allston, Mass., and Montreal-based website and graffiti-artists' collective, encourages taggers to abandon traditional targets and decorate nude women.
Boston Phoenix |
Caitlin Curran |
10-10-2007 |
Art
Tags: visual arts
The Edward Scissorhands for South Carolinanew
Pearl Fryar's cavernous voice is a major reason this big-screen profile of the Bishopville, S.C., topiary artist is appealing.
Charleston City Paper |
Chris Haire |
10-10-2007 |
Reviews
Cynthia Hill Examines the Plight of Low-paid Field Handsnew
In The Guestworker, the closest Hill gets to editorializing is juxtaposing images of a farmer eating a family meal in his house with those of the guestworkers' shoddier living conditions.
Charleston City Paper |
Nick Smith |
10-10-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Cyntha Hill, The Guestworker
'Force of Nature' Captures the Difficuluty of Installation Artnew
The 144-page hardcover book about the groundbreaking exhibit of the same name, Force of Nature chronicles the exuberance of the 10 Japanese artists who visited the Carolinas last year to make site installations.
Charleston City Paper |
Nick Smith |
10-10-2007 |
Nonfiction
The Robert Cray Band's Magicnew
On stage, the chemistry among guitarist/singer Cray, keyboardist Jim Pugh, drummer Kevin Hayes, and bassist Karl Sevareid is both blatantly obvious and seemingly spontaneous and effortless.
Charleston City Paper |
Alan Sculley |
10-10-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Meet the Monksnew
South Carolina-based Modern Day Monks recorded its debut at the Fusion Five Studio facility by Jordan Herschaft and fellow audio engineer Jeff Leonard -- both of whom have recently established the new label Indie Records.
Charleston City Paper |
T. Ballard Lesemann |
10-10-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Modern Day Monks
Chef Bob Waggoner Releases Cookbooknew
When Charleston Grill's Waggoner was first pitched the idea of publishing his own cookbook three years ago, it took some convincing to get him on board. "I did not want to produce a book full of tough recipes," he says.
Charleston City Paper |
Cynthia Groseclose |
10-10-2007 |
Food+Drink
