AltWeeklies Wire
The Saul Zaentz Media Center Is on the Brink of Extinctionnew
The thirty or so documentary film producers and sound engineers living in the East Berkeley building face a rent increase somwhere between 40 and 100 percent.
East Bay Express |
Chris Thompson |
04-05-2007 |
Movies
'The Tracker': Australia's Mythic Frontier Dramanew
Australia's troubled relationship with its indigenous people.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Al Hoff |
04-05-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Rolf de Heer, The Tracker
'The Hoax': Howard Hughes' Fake Biographynew
An enjoyable pop-history recap, one of those odd throwaway stories.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Al Hoff |
04-05-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Lasse Hallstrom, The Hoax
'Inland Empire': David Lynch Keeps Us Ill At Easenew
Empire peels back new layers of shadow inside the little boxes where dreams flourish like bacilli.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Bill O'Driscoll |
04-05-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: David Lynch, Inland Empire
Counter-Coulternew
When shock and outrage is all you can offer, it gets increasingly difficult to top yourself.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Chris Potter |
04-05-2007 |
Politics
In Search of True Believers: The Locust, Cattle Decapitation, and Daughtersnew
Are 15-year-old "Brittany Brutals" really into gore metal?
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Jake McGee |
04-05-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Locust
Pittsburgh Panel Debates Use of the N-wordnew
In doing so, it explored the fascination and fear surrounding the notorious word.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Melissa Meinzer |
04-05-2007 |
Race & Class
Tags: race relations
Taking a Gamble on Gambling Addictsnew
Pennsylvania's slots are raking in the cash, but will those that lose too much get the help that they need?
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Charlie Deitch |
04-05-2007 |
Economy
Tags: Economic Issues
Flight of Fancynew
Isolated, bedraggled and vulnerable, Sandler seems to embody the wounded spirit of the post-9/11 city.
Style Weekly |
Thomas Peyser |
04-05-2007 |
Reviews
What's In a Name?new
The Namesake ponders many things -- maybe you can figure them out.
Style Weekly |
Wayne Melton |
04-05-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Mira Nair, The Namesake
Chuck D vs. Obamanew
Is Barack the best choice for the hip-hop generation?
East Bay Express |
Eric K. Arnold |
04-05-2007 |
Commentary
Touchy-feely 'Researchers' Turn to Orgasmic Meditationnew
Orgasmic meditation is devoted to female orgasm, but the idea is that the "strokers" are also fulfilled through what community members call "pleasure by proxy," as well as by enjoying the sensations in their bodies as they stroke.
Get Ye to Jamestownenew
Your guide to the 400th anniversary observance of the settlement at Jamestown.
Style Weekly |
Carrie Culpepper, Ed Slipek and Deveron Timberlake |
04-05-2007 |
Travel
Tags: Jamestown, Williamsburg
Taking Aim at VA Medical Center Expansionnew
Angered by what it calls a stealth attempt by the VA to greatly expand medical research amid spectacular parkland of the Golden Gate headlands, residents have filed a lawsuit to block those plans.
SF Weekly |
Ron Russell |
04-05-2007 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
Don't Call it Sci-finew
Catbird Publishing wants to turn real Bay Area science into high-tech thrillers, and real scientists into novelists.
East Bay Express |
Kara Platoni |
04-05-2007 |
Books
