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The ABCs of His Mischiefnew

Everything you wanted to know about the band, from A to Z.

City Pages (Twin Cities) | Sarah Askari | 09-20-2007 | Profiles & Interviews

Mouthful of Bees Members Leaving Hivenew

Right now, Mouthful of Bees, by a bushel-basket full of ballots, are the most popular new band in town. This time next year, they could be an overlooked hardcore trio called the Yellowjackets.

City Pages (Twin Cities) | Sarah Askari | 09-20-2007 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Mouthful of Bees

John Waters On the Mainstreamng of Gay Culturenew

"I had more fun when it was illegal to be gay," says Waters.

INDY Week | Zack Smith | 09-20-2007 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: John, Britney, Lindsay, Lohan, Spears, Waters

David Cronenberg's Crime Film Updates a Sacred Mythnew

Following the 2005 critical success of A History of Violence, there's a natural impulse to view David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises as a formerly maverick director's continuing foray into accessible, even mainstream, filmmaking.

INDY Week | Neil Morris | 09-20-2007 | Reviews

Tags: David Cronenberg, Eastern Promises, Mortensen, Naomi, Viggo, Watts

'In the Valley of Elah' Tries to Be a Mystery & an Iraq Filmnew

Unfortunately, Haggis doesn't have the stylistic chops to do "restrained" in the way that, say, Sidney Lumet can. His would-be restraint ends up committing the cardinal sin of being dull, dull, dull.

INDY Week | Godfrey Cheshire | 09-20-2007 | Reviews

Tags: Paul Haggis, In the Valley of Elah, Jones, Lee, Sarandon, Susan, Tommy

Professor Works Out His Salvation Through NASCARnew

Here is what many nonbelievers see when they glimpse a NASCAR race on television: A bunch of billboards on wheels turning left at insane speeds, perpetrating unconscionable air and noise pollution and pointless death, and wasting an increasingly precious natural resource.

INDY Week | Adam Sobsey | 09-20-2007 | Nonfiction

Tags: Dale, Earnhardt, Godspeed: Racing is My Religion, L.D. Russell, Nonfiction Reviews

An Open Letter to President Bushnew

Mr. President, you could learn a lot by listening to this anti-war compilation CD.

Seven Days | Dan Bolles | 09-20-2007 | Music

Tags: protest, Iraq War, Bush, Various, anti-war, Line in the Sand

Why Are So Many Workers Leaving the Burlington Free Press?new

In the past year, the Gannett-owned paper has started publishing five free weeklies and is enlarging its freestanding weekend section and jazzing up its website with video and interactive elements. At the same time, it has been losing reporters and editors -- lots of them.

Seven Days | Kevin J. Kelley | 09-20-2007 | Media

Tags: media, Gannett, newspaper industry