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'Apart From That': Like Cassavetes in Skagit Countynew
The film makes a jumbled democracy of its rustic players; refreshingly, there's not a mumbling hipster among them.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
10-02-2007 |
Reviews
New Mexico Loses $4.3 Million in Children's Vaccinesnew
The state's Department of Health is trying to keep its cool after a refrigerator malfunction in July that compromised $4.3 million worth of children's vaccines.
Weekly Alibi |
Kate Trainor and Joshua Liberles |
10-02-2007 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
Again With Miserable Africanew
Angels takes an intimate, unstinting, ground's-eye view of the biological and social diseases ravaging Africa, making public-policy debate about AIDS in Africa seems distant and esoteric.
Seattle Weekly |
Huan Hsu |
10-02-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Angels in the Dust, Louise Hogarth
Ex–Catheter and Tall Bird Turns to a Rock-Poster Icon for Career Reinventionnew
Brian Standeford first met the Sub Pop art director Jeff Kleinsmith when Standeford's old band, the Catheters, was signed to the label in the early 2000s. Now Standeford turns to Kleinsmith for advice as he pursues poster design.
Seattle Weekly |
Brain J. Barr |
10-02-2007 |
Music
A Dark-Skinned Good Guynew
Tall, slender and elegant in a charcoal-gray leather jacket and neatly trimmed chin stubble, Ashraf Barhom is an Israeli Arab making his Hollywood debut as the righteous Saudi Arabian who sets an example of personal and professional heroism in The Kingdom.
L.A. Weekly |
Ella Taylor |
10-02-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Peter Berg, The Kingdom
He Ain't Heavy, He's My Lovernew
Some chasers say owning up to a fat fetish is like coming out of the closet a second time; chubbies and chasers are often ridiculed within a gay community where svelte figures and boyish good looks are prized.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Amy Guthrie |
10-02-2007 |
Culture
Mash-up Star Gregg Gilliss May Be About to Blow Up — Literallynew
For two months, the mash-up prodigy more commonly known as Girl Talk lived the wild life of a touring musician. Now he was about to meet a fiery end on the tarmac of Dallas Love Airport.
L.A. Weekly |
Matthew Fleischer |
10-02-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Girl Talk, Night Ripper
My Secret Life in the Klannew
A voyage into hate groups reveals a lonely existence for those who support all things white.
The Pitch |
Peter Rugg |
10-02-2007 |
Race & Class
Many Detroiters Live in a Food Desertnew
Well over half of the city's population lives in out-of-balance areas where the nearest grocery store is twice as far away as the nearest fringe food location.
Metro Times |
Larry Gabriel |
10-02-2007 |
Food+Drink
The King and Queen of Mexican Jumping Beansnew
Joseph and Soledad Hindi's Albuquerque business exports close to 3 million jumping beans every year.
Weekly Alibi |
Marisa Demarco |
10-02-2007 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
Rosita Youngblood Fights to Save Her Film Billnew
The Pennsylvania state rep's bill would force film companies to give a percent to state charities before they can receive their tax credits.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Mary F. Patel |
10-02-2007 |
Movies
'Into the Wild': Force of Naturenew
Penn's previous movies as a director have been unfailingly pretentious, but Into the Wild is altogether different, a unified, long-haul work that is rarely caught straining for effect.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Sam Adams |
10-02-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Into the Wild, Sean Penn
The Action-Packed 'Kingdom' Misfiresnew
Peter Berg's film feels too rote and near-Rambo in its simplistic portrait of a foreign policy disaster as easily remedied with a few well-placed brutal killings.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Shaun Brady |
10-02-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Peter Berg, The Kingdom
CAConrad Draws Us in to His Kafka-esque Dream Statenew
Calling CAConrad "in your face" doesn't quite do it -- if the Philadelphia poet had his way, he'd be down your throat, stuck in your gut and up your ass.
Philadelphia City Paper |
A.D. Amorosi |
10-02-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: CAConrad, The Frank Poems
A Van Halen Fan Comes to Termsnew
Despite my aversion to reunion concerts, nostalgia erodes the best of defenses, and I've laid down the cash to see Van Halen.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Shaun Brady |
10-02-2007 |
Music
