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Portraits of the Fundamentalist as a Young Mannew
Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Yasmina Khadra's The Sirens of Baghdad take on the challenge of sympathetically looking through the eyes of the inscrutable.
Baltimore City Paper |
Zak M. Salih |
06-26-2007 |
Fiction
Tags: Fiction Reviews
Ask a Mexican! Special Canadian Editionnew
In honor of my hometown Anaheim Ducks pounding on pussy Canadians to win the NHL Stanley Cup, I dedicate this week's column to ellos.
Tags: humor & satire
Peacekeeping Armynew
Polyphonic Spree's up to 28 members have shed their cultlike robes for a unifying military look, and its latest record, The Fragile Army, still has the sunny sound the group is known for but takes on more serious subject matter lyrically and sartorically.
Gambit |
Alison Fensterstock |
06-26-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Polyphonic Spree, The Fragile Army
The Case of the Traveling Semennew
A defendant tries to explain how his sperm landed inside a stranger.
OC Weekly |
R. Scott Moxley |
06-26-2007 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Kansas City's Dimwit D.A.new
As Johnson County's top prosecutor, Phill Kline has been a disaster.
A Political Bombshellnew
Last week's guilty plea by former Orleans Parish School Board president Ellenese Brooks-Simms was the political equivalent of a nuclear bomb.
Gambit |
Clancy DuBos |
06-26-2007 |
Commentary
25 Lovable Chicken-Fried Steaksnew
Who invented the CFS? There are a lot of competing theories. Whose do you love? Better try them all to be sure.
Houston Press |
Robb Walsh |
06-26-2007 |
Food+Drink
Going Modularnew
To handle New Orleans' rising public school enrollment, new state Education Superintendent Paul Pastorek has fast-tracked temporary campuses -- but he hopes to see permanent schools under construction before his contract expires in six months.
Tags: Education
Presidential Debates Should Come Through New Orleansnew
Choosing New Orleans should be easy for the bi-partisan Commission on Presidential Debates.
Gambit |
Clancy DuBos |
06-26-2007 |
Commentary
Raising the Lower Ninenew
How residents of one historic neighborhood in New Orleans are framing the flood-ravaged area's recovery in modern, "green" terms.
Gambit |
Ariane Wiltse |
06-26-2007 |
Environment
For Metal Maniacsnew
Although 3 Inches of Blood harks back to some of metal's cheesier moments, the Vancouver-based band resents being called a "spoof" group -- they're serious about what they do.
Phoenix New Times |
Niki D'Andrea |
06-26-2007 |
Reviews
The Smob: Hip-hop With a Twistnew
"What hip-hop do you know that has a Kansas country girl singing?"
Phoenix New Times |
Brendan Joel Kelley |
06-26-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Smob
Who Pole-Danced First?new
Two women who together helped bring the exotic-dancing fitness craze to Orange County could be headed to court.
Tags: sports & fitness
Phil Cisneros' Death Sentencenew
A vengeful court puts an ailing old man behind bars -- likely his final resting place.
Phoenix New Times |
Sarah Fenske |
06-26-2007 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Bumps Gives a 23-track Seminar on the Manifold Pleasures of Rhythmnew
Besides being a musical feast in its own right, Bumps also serves as a beggar's banquet for sample hounds looking to bolster their rhymes with killer blaps.
Tags: Bumps
