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Zydepunks: Common Folknew
The band has been playing its hybrid blend of accordion and fiddle-driven folk-punk since 2004.
Gambit |
Alison Fensterstock |
08-21-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Exile Waltz, Zydepunks
Star Witnessesnew
With testimony expected from Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco and a gaggle of TV weathermen, the state attorney general's high-profile case against the owners of a nursing home where 35 elderly residents died during Hurricane Katrina is getting glitzier by the day.
Gambit |
Jeremy Alford |
08-21-2007 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Hurricane FEMAnew
Despite orders from the top and tests showing dangerous levels of formaldehyde, many residents of FEMA trailers are having trouble moving out.
Gambit |
Amanda Spake |
08-21-2007 |
Policy Issues
Tags: public policy issues
The Pathologies that Govern Usnew
Katarina's long, aching aftermath has proved that we are no longer the country that put men on the moon -- we're too busy taking care of our own.
America's Foreign Policy Fallacynew
For half a century, U.S. foreign policy has largely been like a large ship that makes few and slight course corrections -- in just six years, we've been thrown way off course, and the compass is spinning as a result.
Baltimore City Paper |
Brian Morton |
08-21-2007 |
Commentary
His Darkest Hournew
Former New Orleans City Council at-large member Oliver Thomas pleads guilty to a federal bribery charge -- his handling of the charge embodies the best and worst of the city.
Gambit |
Allen Johnson |
08-21-2007 |
Commentary
Fog is Almost Beyond Genrenew
Seldom does a trip to the edge feel as intuitive and natural as in this stirring and forward-thinking work.
Orlando Weekly |
Bao Le-Huu |
08-21-2007 |
Reviews
'A Wake-up Call'new
New Orleans recovery director Ed Blakely says "recovery" is going to require changing a lot more than the landscape -- attitudes will have to change, too.
Gambit |
Clancy DuBos and Jason Berry |
08-21-2007 |
Policy Issues
Jason Molina Gives Himself the Box-set Treatmentnew
It's an overwhelming batch of material, not nearly as striking as Songs: Ohia's best work, but anyone enamored with Molina's high-lonesome drawl will find plenty of room to stretch out and wait.
Orlando Weekly |
Rob O'Connor |
08-21-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Magnolia Electric Co., Sojourner
The Wonderful World of 'Madden'new
The impact this game has in shaping Central Florida's future can't be overstated -- its success, both past and future, is very much tied to the region's hopes of reinventing itself.
Orlando Weekly |
Aaron R. Conklin |
08-21-2007 |
Video Games
'Fear of Clowns 2': Blow Up Real Goodnew
Kevin Kangas' horror sequel debuts at a Baltimore theater before heading direct to DVD.
Baltimore City Paper |
Bret McCabe |
08-21-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Fear of Clowns 2, Kevin Kangas
Memphis' Straight Talkersnew
Mayor Willie Herenton and sometime council critic Myron Lowery tell it the way they see it.
The Memphis Flyer |
Jackson Baker |
08-21-2007 |
Politics
Gogol Bordello: A Band for Our Timesnew
It's a movable feast of sound and spirit that asserts that home isn't a place but something you carry around with you.
The Memphis Flyer |
Chris Herrington |
08-21-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Gogol Bordello, Super Taranta
'Superbad': An Underachieving Teen Comedynew
The film is a surprisingly bitter and limited movie with a broad, bristly mean streak.
The Memphis Flyer |
Addison Engelking |
08-21-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Greg Mottola, Superbad
'Seeing Beyond' Goes Inside a Photog's Worst Nightmarenew
A profession that relies on vision would, in theory, be severely crippled by blindness, and it is with this deep-rooted fear in mind that photographer Tony Deifell approached Governor Morehead School for the Blind in 1992 to start an after-school photography club.
Baltimore City Paper |
Katherine M. Hill |
08-21-2007 |
Nonfiction
