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'View From a Grain of Sand' is Unapologeticnew
Weaving together the stories of three Afghan women (a doctor, a teacher and a social activist) who have sought refuge from war, political conflict and an oppressive regime, the film intermittently infuses the country’s history under three distinct leaders.
Orlando Weekly |
Deanna Sheffield |
09-27-2007 |
Reviews
DJ JD Sampson Puts Her Spin on Pridenew
A member of Le Tigre, a DJ called JD, a multi-media artist and a pin-up model, Samson is constantly in some mix.
INDY Week |
Rebekah Meek |
09-27-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: JD Sampson
'Strange Culture' Desconstructs Documentary Formnew
Lynn Hershman Leeson deconstructs the documentary form in Strange Culture, the Kafka-esque saga of Steve Kurtz, an artist whose work concerns biotechnology and GMO foods.
Orlando Weekly |
Jessica Bryce Young |
09-27-2007 |
Reviews
'Prince of Peace — God of War' Asks Why Christians Support Warnew
While it may seem a distant, simple -- even annoying -- feast of hypothetical subject matter, the underlying question may be an open door into the religious right's base politics. Have they skipped Jesus and leapt straight to the Crusades?
Orlando Weekly |
Billy Manes |
09-27-2007 |
Reviews
John Lee Hooker Jr. Walks His Own Pathnew
According to junior, if he tried to fill his father's shoes, he'd get cramps trying to take one step.
INDY Week |
Chris Parker |
09-27-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Cold as Ice, John Lee Hooker Jr.
'Postcards From Tora Bora' Examines Kabul Then and Nownew
Kabul is a starkly different city than the flourishing, cosmopolitan center it once was. Osman’s film mixes childish cartoons with man-on-the-street footage to powerful effect.
Orlando Weekly |
Bob Whitby |
09-27-2007 |
Reviews
Damn You, Barack Obamanew
Small donors could put Obama over the top, but win or lose, they've have already brought a revolution in campaign financing.
Boston Phoenix |
Al Giordano |
09-27-2007 |
Politics
'New Urban Cowboy' Explores New Pedestrianismnew
New Urban Cowboy documents Michael Arth's valiant efforts and big dreams for the "neighborhood of the future" and provides a model not just of new developments, but new developers.
Orlando Weekly |
Ian Monroe |
09-27-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Michael Arth, New Urban Cowboy
Mark Z. Danielewski Frustrates Critics, Dyslexicsnew
Depending on who you ask, Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves is either the greatest literary achievement since Finnegans Wake, or a hopelessly pretentious gimmick -- his latest book, Only Revolutions, widens the divide even more
Dig Boston |
Mark Baumer |
09-27-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Mike Sager's New Journalism Fills 'Donut Boys'new
Sager gives frontline reports on everything from the rapper Ice Cube to expat Vietnam vets in Thailand to suburban-Maryland Tupperware saleswomen.
INDY Week |
Adam Sobsey |
09-27-2007 |
Nonfiction
Touched by Gracenew
On Andre Dubus's unending gifts.
Boston Phoenix |
Nina MacLaughlin |
09-27-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: andre dubus
Neo-China Restaurant Accused of 'Human Trafficking'new
A former employee says the chain restaurant brought him and his family members from China to work 90 hours a week at less than minimum wage and then fired them after one was injured on the job.
INDY Week |
Charles Duncan |
09-27-2007 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
The 'Things' We Lovenew
Writers extol sacred objects of everyday use -- and uselessness -- in Taking Things Seriously and Evocative Objects.
Boston Phoenix |
Caitlin Curran |
09-27-2007 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Nonfiction Reviews
'Lillie & Leander: A Legacy of Violence' Explores Southern Paranoianew
What starts out looking like yet another story of a black man wronged by the racist powers-that-be in the early 20th-century Florida Panhandle emerges in the hands of director Jeffrey Morgan as a documentary that is as shocking as it is emotionally engaging.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
09-27-2007 |
Reviews
Environmentally Yoursnew
Eco-authors Ted Nordhaus and Bjorn Lomborg advocate a paradigm shift that emphasizes big, international thinking in their books Breaking Through and Cool It.
Portland Phoenix |
Deirdre Fulton |
09-27-2007 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Nonfiction Reviews
