AltWeeklies Wire
'The Banquet' Serves Shakespeare with a Chinese Twistnew
Openly borrowing from two of The Bard's darkest plays, Hamlet and Macbeth, The Banquet gluts itself on vicarious human passions.
Shepherd Express |
Aisha Motlani |
09-28-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: The Banquet, Xiaogang Feng
The Internet Haunts in 'Tell No One'new
Director Guillaume Canet explores the dark side of the Internet, with its potential for stripping users of their privacy and of transmitting unwanted messages.
Shepherd Express |
David Luhrssen |
09-28-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Guillaume Canet, Tell No One
What Would [Insert Famous Athlete] Do?new
If professional sports bear any resemblance to real life, we are afflicted with a monumental ethics problem.
Shepherd Express |
Joel McNally |
09-28-2007 |
Sports
Tags: sports & fitness
Director Usama Alshaibi on Wartime Iraqi Lifenew
Alshaibi was born in Iraq, but his parents were able to flee the country with their children while Saddam Hussein was in power. After the 2003 invasion, he went back to see how his relatives were doing.
Shepherd Express |
Lia Kaiser |
09-28-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Nice Bombs, Usama Alshaibi
Winconsin Power Plant Sold, State Loses Oversightnew
The approval of the sale of the nuclear power plant at Point Beach does more than just transfer the ownership of a huge asset from Wisconsin Electric Power Co. to FPL Energy. It also diminishes the role of state oversight in the operation of the nuclear facility.
Shepherd Express |
Lisa Kaiser |
09-28-2007 |
Policy Issues
Tags: public policy issues
Public Campaign Funding Could Clean Up Wisconsinnew
State leaders could study publicly financed campaigns in Arizona and Maine -- or they could wait for a scandal that forces a wholesale reform of the system.
Shepherd Express |
Dennis A. Shook |
09-28-2007 |
Commentary
Milwaukee's Turner Hall Ballroom May Host Concerts Againnew
Under the proposed operating agreement, the organization that runs the Pabst and Riverside Theaters would also book concerts at the long-dormant, historic venue.
Shepherd Express |
Evan Rytlewski |
09-28-2007 |
Music
Milwaukee Remembers the 1967 Open-housing Marchesnew
Vel Phillips, the city's first black and first female alderperson, became the champion for fair, open housing in Milwaukee.
Shepherd Express |
Micheal Timm |
09-28-2007 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
Welcome to Chick Lit Arabic-stylenew
Originally published in Lebanon in 2005, it was banned in Saudi Arabia and became a samizdat sensation, circulating in photocopied form throughout the desert kingdom.
NOW Magazine |
Maria Amuchastegui |
09-28-2007 |
Fiction
Desperate Houseswives with Dicks?new
Two shows -- Big Shots and Dirty Sexy Money -- shoot for the soap opera success of the housewives.
NOW Magazine |
Barrett Hooper |
09-28-2007 |
TV
Tags: TV
How to Kiss Off a Friendshipnew
Breaking a bad bond with a bud is harder than ending a love tie.
NOW Magazine |
Elizabeth Bromstein |
09-28-2007 |
Advice
Tags: advice columns
Emile Hirsch on 'Into the Wild'new
Filmed on more than 30 locations from Mexico to Alaska, Into The Wild casts Hirsch as doomed Kerouac- and Thoreau-wannabe Chris McCandless, a role that required the actor to kayak rapids, rock climb, stare down grizzly bears and, ultimately, to lose 40 pounds for the sake of emaciated verisimilitude.
NOW Magazine |
Barrett Hooper |
09-28-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Into the Wild, Sean Penn
Norwegian DJs Do It Differentlynew
Oslo-based cosmic disco specialist Prins Thomas (aka Thomas Hermansen) makes grooves that most would describe as odd and unusual.
NOW Magazine |
Benjamin Boles |
09-28-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: DJ Prins Thomas
Marcel Khalife: The Oud Man Outnew
For a musician who doesn't consider himself particularly religious and says he'd rather not talk politics, Lebanese oud maestro Khalife has been embroiled in a lot of controversy.
NOW Magazine |
Tim Perlich |
09-28-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Marcel Khalife
Green Divide That Isn'tnew
From terrific Greenbelt to terrible ethanol subsidies, there's an odd consensus among Canadian political parties heading into elections.
NOW Magazine |
Wayne Roberts |
09-28-2007 |
Environment
Tags: environment
