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Whatever Name He Chooses, Black Francis Rocksnew
On Bluefinger, Francis is channeling faraway echoes of classic, mid-'60s Kinks and early-'70s Lou Reed and New York Dolls
Shepherd Express |
David Luhrssen |
09-24-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Black Francis, Bluefinger
Save the Toddler-sized Wilco T-shirtsnew
Ronnie McCoury creates a bluegrass CD for kids that parents can listen to. Better yet, McCoury doesn't try to be cool while doing it.
Shepherd Express |
Jon Gilbertson |
09-24-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Little Mo' McCoury
The National Escape into 'Boxer'new
After the group's supposed-to-be break-out tour was stolen by Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, The National returns with an album of quiet, meditative tunes.
Shepherd Express |
Evan Rytlewski |
09-24-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Boxer, The National
Visually Stunning Documentary Captures the Big Picture of Chinese Industrynew
Nothing illustrates the monstrosity of globalized commerce more vividly than the lateral tracking shot that opens Jennifer Baichwal’s mesmerizing documentary Manufactured Landscapes.
Nashville Scene |
Jim Ridley |
09-24-2007 |
Reviews
Poet Pens Subversive Detective Stories Set in Chinanew
Qiu Xiaolong's creative and personal life has long been shaped by the politics of his communist homeland. It was politics that first pushed him to write and study poetry, and later induced him to immigrate to the United States.
Riverfront Times |
Malcolm Gay |
09-24-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Qiu Xiaolong, Red Mandarin Dress
Mitch Easter's Out on His Own with 'Dynamico'new
Easter isn't a household name -- unless your household contains a rabid R.E.M. fan, that is.
Riverfront Times |
Annie Zaleski |
09-24-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Dynamico, Mitch Easter
Something in the Air Will Kill Younew
In Larry Fessenden's new film, The Last Winter, weather is the monster.
L.A. Weekly |
Judith Lewis |
09-24-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Larry Fessenden, The Last Winter
The Many Freckled Faces of Catherine Keenernew
Keener plays Jan, a slackly conceived and overly familiar character, but she brings the role a warmth, specificity and diffuse sadness that makes you wish she had a lot more screen time.
L.A. Weekly |
Ella Taylor |
09-24-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Into the Wild, Sean Penn
Sean Penn Journeys 'Into the Wild'new
To these eyes, Into the Wild is an unusually soulful and poetic movie that crystallizes Christopher McCandless as the glittering enigma he was, that allows us to decide for ourselves whether he was the spiritual son of Thoreau, Tolstoy and John Muir, or the boy most likely to become Theodore Kaczynski.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
09-24-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Into the Wild, Sean Penn
All Hail Kennedy's Cheesenew
The songs on Kennedy for President are Velveeta smooth and just as cheesy, but hooky and fun enough for cruising and, after a few drinks, maybe even for dancing.
L.A. Weekly |
Linda Immediato |
09-24-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Kennedy, Kennedy for President
Thou Shalt Not Walk Away Hungrynew
David Wain and Ken Marino's humor is the kind that almost always goes a step too far before pulling back to find the very sharpest bit.
Eugene Weekly |
Molly Templeton |
09-24-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: David Wain, The Ten
The Strangernew
Nothing says danger like a moment of perfect bliss.
Eugene Weekly |
Jason Blair |
09-24-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Neil Jordan, The Brave One
Sean Penn, With His Own Two Eyesnew
Penn on anger, humility and the power of seeing things for yourself and his new movie, Into the Wild.
L.A. Weekly |
Joe Donnelly |
09-24-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Into the Wild, Sean Penn
Lord of the Rings Inc.new
Kristin Thompson sheds light on a fantasy phenomenon in her book The Frodo Franchise: The Lord of the Rings and Modern Hollywood.
Jena Shows Race Relations Still Have a Long Way to Gonew
The six Louisiana high school students, like their young ancestors the Scottsboro boys and the Little Rock Nine, have become a modern-day symbol of Jim Crow justice -- and the implications of their case, which struggled for attention, are a testament for us all.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Kia Gregory |
09-24-2007 |
Race & Class
