AltWeeklies Wire
'3:10 to Yuma' is a Thinking-person's Westernnew
Russell Crowe and Christian Bale help further define a subgenre.
San Diego CityBeat |
Anders Wright |
09-05-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: 3:10 to Yuma, James Mangold
'Shoot 'Em Up': Gun Fight After Gun Fight After Gun Fightnew
Body count high, plot points low, title accurate.
San Diego CityBeat |
Anders Wright |
09-05-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Michael Davis, Shoot 'Em Up
Border Crossingsnew
To get to America, some people have climbed fences, hiked through deserts, lied their way past border agents or legally entered by wading through mounds of confusing paperwork -- these are the stories beneath the statistics.
San Diego CityBeat |
Kinsee Morlan, David Rolland and Eric Wolff |
09-05-2007 |
Immigration
Tags: Immigration
Senator John Warner Goes Out Swingingnew
We're sad to see him go -- love him or loathe him, it's undeniable that Warner embodies a type of thoughtful, pragmatic and dignified politician that is in precious short supply on Capitol Hill these days.
C-Ville Weekly |
Dan Catalano |
09-05-2007 |
Commentary
Corey Harris Continues His Musical Anthropologynew
Harris adds a bit of Caribbean jerk to his blues tunes on Zion Crossroads.
C-Ville Weekly |
John Ruscher |
09-05-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Corey Harris, Zion Crossroads
Michael Davis on the Delirious Action of 'Shoot 'Em Up'new
Not many people have asked the question, "What if you took the hospital scene from John Woo's Hard Boiled with Chow Yun-Fat holding a gun and a baby and extended it to over ninety minutes?" but I'm glad Michael Davis did.
Chicago Newcity |
Ray Pride |
09-05-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Michael Davis, Shoot 'Em Up
The War on Drugs, via FAFSAnew
Groups hope Congress will finally ditch financial aid question.
C-Ville Weekly |
Scott Weaver |
09-05-2007 |
Education
Tags: Education
'Army of None' Aims to Thwart Military Recruitersnew
Former Oakland City Council candidate Aimee Allison publishes an activist guidebook.
East Bay Express |
Kathleen Richards |
09-05-2007 |
War
Kanye West Raps on His Foundationnew
In an effort to perhaps replace the currently reigning image of himself as egocentric extraordinaire, West has developed his own institution, whose central program works to bring hip-hop curricula and music-production classes to schools.
Chicago Newcity |
Sean Redmond |
09-05-2007 |
Music
Tags: Kanye West
Dan Deacon Leads the Future Shock Scenenew
Deacon and his Baltimore cohorts create kaleidoscopic works of rainbow-colored, ADD-addled brilliance, taking the last twenty years of pop culture and mutating it into something wonderfully familiar and yet decidedly new.
Chicago Newcity |
Sean Redmond |
09-05-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Dan Deacon
Too $hort, Career Counselornew
After 25 years as the nasty-mouthed purveyor of "Freaky Tales," the rapper hopes to change his legacy by helping troubled kids -- but is "$horty the Pimp" the best role model?
East Bay Express |
Eric K. Arnold |
09-05-2007 |
Music
Tags: Too $hort
The Army's Deadly VX Waste is Burning In Texasnew
The Army has claimed the waste is no more dangerous than kitchen cleaners, but when environmental scientists began looking at the disposal process, they found scary scenarios.
The Texas Observer |
Rusty Middleton |
09-04-2007 |
Environment
Alberto Gonzales: Toady No Morenew
Gonzales took a nation that used to wave its banner as a beacon of freedom, truth, and democracy and in a short time made it stand for torture, extraordinary rendition, Abu Ghraib, indefinite detentions, and the gulag of "black" CIA sites.
Baltimore City Paper |
Brian Morton |
09-04-2007 |
Commentary
Pinkberry Yogurt Trend Spreads to Coloradonew
In L.A., they were calling it "crackberry" and "frozen heroin juice." Consumers jovially referred to themselves as "addicts."
Colorado Springs Independent |
Matthew Schniper |
09-04-2007 |
Food+Drink
The Doobie Brothers Enjoy Familial Blissnew
It's been nearly 30 years since the band reached a commercial peak and 20 years since it regrouped in 1987 to begin what has been an uninterrupted run of touring and recording.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Alan Sculley |
09-04-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Doobie Brothers
