AltWeeklies Wire
Mal Tiempo, Buenas Caras (Bad Times, Good Faces)new
Two Latino immigrants tell wildly different tales of Hurricane Katrina as they struggle to rebuild along the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
Jackson Free Press |
Matt Saldana |
07-18-2007 |
Disasters
Tags: disasters
Pray It Loudnew
Mississippi Christian metal rockers A Living Burden talk about the loudest prayer.
Jackson Free Press |
Andi Agnew |
07-18-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: A Living Burden
Enchiladas Perfeccionnew
Chasing down the perfect enchiladas, from San Francisco to the kitchen.
Jackson Free Press |
Margaret Cahoon |
07-18-2007 |
Food+Drink
Contemplating Josh Wolfnew
Police Commission revives discussion of why the cops federalized an investigation that denied a journalist's rights.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Sarah Phelan |
07-18-2007 |
Media
Tags: media
Importing Injusticenew
How deregulation and Wal-Mart poison the Port of Oakland's neighbors and force poverty wages on its truckers.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Joseph Plaster |
07-18-2007 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
Learning to Eat Like Aboriginalsnew
A glowing shard of the continent's aboriginal culinary past can be found in Where People Feast: An Indigenous People's Cookbook.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Paul Reidinger |
07-18-2007 |
Food+Drink
'Joshua' Does a Lot With a Little
There's a definite Bad Seed vibe going on in this sophisticated psychological thriller.
Tags: George Ratliff, Joshua
'Talk to Me': An Undernourished Script with Great Performances
In spite of Cheadle's forceful performance, the watered down script fails to capture the rawness and the logic of a groundbreaking social commentator.
Tags: Kasi Lemmons, Talk to Me
'Broken English': A Mature Romantic Comedy
Zoe Cassavetes successfully debuts a self-written narrative feature after testing directing waters with her impressive documentary Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession.
Tags: Broken English, Zoe Cassavetes
'Interview' is an Actor's Showcase Movie
It's talky, stagy and burdened with a video tape plot device that will make you cringe.
Tags: interview, Steve Buscemi
Keeping Up with Melina Jonesnew
The San Francisco MC represents everything that's right with hip-hop.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Amanda Maria Morrison |
07-18-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Melina Jones
Chromeo Has Legs!new
Don't think the duo is just a throwback joke band, satirizing male-male '80s pop the way the Darkness satirizes glam rock -- the music is no joke.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Molly Freedenberg |
07-18-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Chromeo
'Sunshine' Ruminates on Solar Powernew
Let there be light.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Cheryl Eddy |
07-18-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Danny Boyle, Sunshine
Corporate Pollution Absolutionnew
Planktos is dumping questionable materials into the ocean so that you can buy forgiveness in the form of carbon credits.
SF Weekly |
Matt Smith |
07-18-2007 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Regulators Favor a Rogue Dump Over a Landmark Winerynew
Why do Oregon public agencies that tout their environmental stewardship allow an archaic dump on prime farmland near Ponzi Vineyards and just upstream of the Tualatin River National Wildlife Refuge to remain in operation?
Willamette Week |
Nigel Jaquiss |
07-18-2007 |
Policy Issues
Tags: public policy issues
