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Not a Post-WWII Coming of Age Storynew
The plot to The Fury of the Entire World sounds more clumsily convoluted than it's told on-screen, as Pieters' plays this evenly paced mystery close to his chest, cagily dealing out his plot points.
Baltimore City Paper |
Bret McCabe |
04-24-2007 |
Reviews
Questions of Politics, Love, Sanity and Envynew
Theodore Gericault's 1818 painting "The Raft of the Medusa," a beautifully colored and affecting tableau that depicts survivors of a shipwreck off the African coast, is the subject of this novel.
Baltimore City Paper |
Stephen Peterson |
04-24-2007 |
Fiction
Tags: Arabella Edge, The God of Spring
Misleading Title, but an Apt Metaphornew
The memoir isn't so much about driving with dead people, although the author does describe joyriding in an empty hearse with her high-school friend, the local mortician's daughter.
Baltimore City Paper |
Nicole Leistikow |
04-24-2007 |
Nonfiction
A Faded Kodak Fantasy of 1960s Popnew
Animal Collective member Noah Lennox has made a record best listened to while falling asleep, just waking up, or any other time you're groggy enough to mistake a passing garbage truck for a Bach cantata.
Baltimore City Paper |
Jess Harvell |
04-24-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Panda Bear, Person Pitch
She's All Thatnew
Or, how I learned to stop worrying about liking young R&B strumpets and love my passive sexism and racism.
Baltimore City Paper |
Bret McCabe |
04-24-2007 |
Music
Why Did Gov. Ehrlich Change His Mind on Maryland's Voting Machines?new
Perhaps it's easier to claim "voter fraud" when nobody has confidence in the system in the first place.
Baltimore City Paper |
Brian Morton |
04-24-2007 |
Commentary
Pull Up to My Bumpernew
I wish somebody would PLEASE do something about all these lazy people who don't put back their shopping carts.
Baltimore City Paper |
Joe MacLeod |
04-24-2007 |
Comedy
Tags: humor & satire
Committednew
Richard Gere as the liar who just wouldn't quit.
Eugene Weekly |
Jason Blair |
04-24-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Lasse Hallstrom, The Hoax
From Seatbelts to Spoilersnew
Ralph Nader's rollercoaster of a legacy fascinates in this new documentary.
Eugene Weekly |
Molly Templeton |
04-24-2007 |
Reviews
The Earthships Have Landed -- Might More Be On the Way?new
These avant-garde, adobe-style dwellings aren't just homes of hippies anymore.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Ashley Boudreaux |
04-24-2007 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
School Funding is Eating Away at Colorado's Budgetnew
Legislation to fix that -- billed as the linchpin to Gov. Bill Ritter's 10-year education improvement plan -- could be killed before it reaches the House Education Committee.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Naomi Zeveloff |
04-24-2007 |
Education
Tags: Education
One Baltimore Family's Life on the Streetnew
Nowhere to go but out, nowhere to come but back.
Baltimore City Paper |
Erin Sullivan |
04-24-2007 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
Are You Alrightnew
Lucinda Williams' new album West captures her life and songwriting at their high and low points.
Gambit |
Alison Fensterstock |
04-24-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Lucinda Williams, West
Hide the Sheep!new
Both parties have lone-wolf candidates who keep breaking out of the pen in Louisiana's gubernatorial race, and there's nothing anyone can do to quiet Foster Campbell and Walter Boasso.
Looking for the Resurrectionnew
Trumpeter and New Orleans Jazz Orchestra founder Irvin Mayfield lost his father -- but found a new purpose -- in Katrina's floodwaters.
Gambit |
Jason Berry |
04-24-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
