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Al Yankovic's Coming Up on 30 Years in Music. No Joke.new
From his first noteworthy success in 1979 with "My Bologna" to last year's Top 10 hit "White & Nerdy," Yankovic has sold more than 12 million albums, earned three Grammy Awards and become a fixture in mainstream popular culture.
Colorado Springs Independent |
John Benson |
09-04-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Weird Al Yankovic
Colorado Springs Hip-hop Scene Struggles with Policenew
Artists, promoters and club owners deal with a wave of bad publicity after two murders and a CSPD statement to local media outlets, expressing worry over the local hip-hop nights taking place at downtown bars and nightclubs.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Pete Freedman |
09-04-2007 |
Music
'Kid Nation' Stirs Controversynew
The idea was to send 40 kids into the wilderness and allow them to create their own Lord of the Flies-style society, but now at least one parent and the American Federation of Television and Radio Actors are raising concerns about how the series was made.
Weekly Alibi |
Devin D. O'Leary |
09-04-2007 |
TV
Tags: TV
Olivier Dahan Steers Clear of Cliches in 'La Vie En Rose'new
The writer/director cracks famed French songbird Edith Piaf's life apart like a frozen chocolate bar and serves it up in disjointed shards.
Weekly Alibi |
Devin D. O’Leary |
09-04-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: La Vie en Rose, Olivier Dahan
'The Nanny Diaries': Lifestyles of the Rich and Thoughtlessnew
The film takes an easy, bland path to Annie's unsurprising self-discovery, peeking at but quickly dropping some complex ideas along the way.
Eugene Weekly |
Molly Templeton |
09-04-2007 |
Reviews
'Talk to Me': Ladies' Mannew
A tonal shift from gentle biopic to record of social upheaval unmoors Talk to Me.
Eugene Weekly |
Jason Blair |
09-04-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Kasi Lemmons, Talk to Me
Can Leonardo DiCaprio Make Ecology Sexy?new
Leo boosts The 11th Hour with his star power, but the environmental film seems like it's preaching to the converted.
Weekly Alibi |
Devin D. O’Leary |
09-04-2007 |
Reviews
Recipe for Deez Nutsnew
Three recipes, three nuts: Sweet Pistachio Meat, Thai Peanuts and Cajun Cashews.
Weekly Alibi |
Alex Brown and Evan George |
09-04-2007 |
Food+Drink
New Mexico Wineries Experiment with Nebbiolo Grapesnew
Temperamental, picky and unpredictable, this grape makes a manly wine that'll have his way with you and then leave you feeling violated but wanting more. Then I found out New Mexico was growing this fickle fruit.
Weekly Alibi |
Maren Tarro |
09-04-2007 |
Food+Drink
Bukowski and Me
Blood, literature and a night in the drunk tank: Poet Alan Justiss recalls his wild years with photographer Claude Powell and poet Charles Bukowski.
Folio Weekly |
Alan Justiss |
09-04-2007 |
History
Tags: history
Okkervil River's Will Sheff Doesn't Want to Be Brandednew
The Austin group has been called indie-folk-rock and "lit-rock," but Sheff thinks it's up to the listener.
Weekly Alibi |
Thomas Gilchrist |
09-04-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Okkervil River, The Stage Names
Which Came First, the Diva or the Rider?new
Odd and unreasonable requests now seem to be the rule rather than the exception when musicians are on tour. See requests from Van Halen, Jennifer Lopez and Iggy and the Stooges.
Weekly Alibi |
Maren Tarro |
09-04-2007 |
Music
Merle Haggard has Served His Time Making Musicnew
Haggard turned 70 in April, but he hasn't slowed down a whit: Over the past year and a half he has released five albums of new music in addition to a flood of reissues.
Baltimore City Paper |
Geoffrey Himes |
09-04-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Merle Haggard
Adam Goldberg is the New Woody Allen?new
2 Days in Paris is a casually heady, observationally nuanced peek inside one couple's romantic foibles -- for good and, most humorously, ill.
Baltimore City Paper |
Bret McCabe |
09-04-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: 2 Days in Paris, Julie Delpy
'The 11th Hour' Directors Hope to Deliver a Global Warningnew
The film distinguishes itself from other talking-head documentaries not only by the sheer emotional fervor, but also by demonstrating that our species can engineer its survival.
Baltimore City Paper |
Violet Glaze |
09-04-2007 |
Reviews
