AltWeeklies Wire
Freakin' and Tweakin' with Dan Deaconnew
The sublime and the ridiculous collide in
the work of the Baltimore musician.
Montreal Mirror |
Rupert Bottenberg |
09-14-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Dan Deacon
John Norquist on Urban Living, Sprawl & Transitnew
Norquist took the skills he learned as Milwaukee mayor from 1988 to 2003 and uses them to provide a model for other cities in his role as president of the Congress for the New Urbanism, based in Chicago.
Shepherd Express |
Dennis A. Shook |
09-14-2007 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
RoyalCon Gathers Analog Role-Players Under One Tentnew
In Montreal, where every fringe activity has a festival, it's hard to believe role-playing games, of the card and board variety, have been so, until last year, horribly neglected.
Montreal Mirror |
Erik Leijon |
09-14-2007 |
Recreation
Tags: recreation
Queen Hillarynew
Americans love dynasties when Heather Locklear or Michael Jordan is involved -- but will they embrace the Clintons?
Boston Phoenix |
Steven Stark |
09-14-2007 |
Commentary
CARE Goes Against the (U.S.) Grainnew
The major aid agency launches boycott of U.S. crop dumping masquerading as charity.
NOW Magazine |
Wayne Roberts |
09-14-2007 |
Food+Drink
This is a Well-Titled Movienew
This is a movie whose body count is much higher than its IQ.
Sacramento News & Review |
Jonathan Kiefer |
09-13-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Michael Davis, Shoot 'Em Up
Girls Will be Girls?new
Expectations are the boxes into which we lock each other. Several books -- Dropped From Heaven, Girls Gone Mild, Bad Girls, Cool It -- explore expectations society has for females.
East Bay Express |
Anneli Rufus |
09-13-2007 |
Books
Percussionist John Santos Debuts New Quintetnew
Roughly six months since the dissolution of his ten-piece Machete Ensemble, the apparently indefatigable bandleader returns with what has to be one of the most exciting local jazz albums of the year.
East Bay Express |
Rachel Swan |
09-13-2007 |
Reviews
Treasure Island Music Festival Boasts Impressive Debut Lineupnew
The San Francisco fest could well become one of those if-you're-anybody-you-better-be-there events with a lineup that includes Thievery Corporation, Modest Mouse, Built to Spill, and DJ Shadow.
East Bay Express |
Kathleen Richards |
09-13-2007 |
Concerts
Welcome to the Berkeley Old Time Music Conventionnew
Depending on who's counting, this would be the 40th, 22nd, 27th, or 5th annual four-day gathering of pickers, strummers, crooners, and pluckers who celebrate precommercial country.
East Bay Express |
J. Poet |
09-13-2007 |
Concerts
Regina Hexaphone Flexs Its Percussionnew
After the gentle, hazy drift of its debut, The Beautiful World, it's strange and thrilling to hear Regina Hexaphone exchange its exquisiteness for greater muscularity.
'Hurricane on the Bayou' Captures How Man Contributed to Katrinanew
Narrated by Meryl Streep, the 2006 film was originally intended to provide viewers with a scenic trip through the wetlands of New Orleans. Three months after the initial footage was shot in 2005, Hurricane Katrina struck the city, bringing the film's warnings to life.
'Fully Awake' Celebrates the Black Mountain Collegenew
Josef Albers, Anni Albers, Arthur Penn, David Tudor, John Cage, Merce Cuningham, Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, M.C. Richards, Charles Olsen, Robert Creeley, Franz Kline ... It is amazing to think that all of these art-world luminaries once immersed themselves in creative experimentation in a remote, isolated college in the mountains of North Carolina.
A Wisconsin Band Divides to Become Two North Carolina Bandsnew
After DeYarmond Edison broke up, the members returned to the Triangle to form Bon Iver and Megafaun. Both have new albums in the works and couldn't be more opposite.
Precise Executionnew
Live double-DVD set preserves a rare presentation.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Lee Valentine Smith |
09-13-2007 |
Reviews
