AltWeeklies Wire
Stars Alignnew
Do Make Say Think and Constellation Records are doing it for themselves.
Metro Times |
Dave Segal |
02-27-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Do Make Say Think
Bill Kirchen's Telecaster Thundernew
This twanger's been putting dieselbilly in his hot rod Lincoln for over 40 years.
Metro Times |
Brian J. Bowe |
02-27-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Bill Kirchen
Split in Twainnew
Jon Clinch's tale of Huck Finn's father is dense, lyrical and mildly archaic.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Justin Bauer |
02-27-2007 |
Fiction
Tags: Finn, Jon Clinch
Old Wine, New Bottlesnew
Days of Glory and The Lives of Others refit familiar genres to tell unfamiliar stories.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Sam Adams |
02-27-2007 |
Reviews
Paper Doll: Calendar Boynew
Gay TV host Butch Cordora wants hot, naked men (homos need not apply).
Philadelphia City Paper |
Ashlea Halpern |
02-27-2007 |
Commentary
Barbara Gittings, 1932-2007new
Gay Americans, sexual minorities and all Americans who cherish liberty should pause in memoriam at the passing of gay civil rights pioneer Barbara Gittings, who recently died after a long battle with breast cancer.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Lewis Whittington |
02-27-2007 |
LGBT
Tags: gay & lesbian issues
Big Pharma Controls Lansingnew
Michigan grants all the big drug companies total immunity from being sued if their products, say, just happen to kill you or make your baby daughter grow a beard, as long as their product is FDA-approved -- but that may soon change.
Metro Times |
Jack Lessenberry |
02-27-2007 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
New Mayor Needn't Worry About Earning a Majoritynew
Can Philadelphia's mayoral election be considered fair if the winner pulls only 90,000 votes?
Philadelphia City Paper |
Doron Taussig |
02-27-2007 |
Politics
Venus in Fistsnew
Lou Reed gets all healthful and New Age-y, but cross him and you might still lose an eye.
East Bay Express |
David Downs |
02-26-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Lou Reed
Russo Versus the Peoplenew
Oakland's city attorney is going gangbusters to prevent citizens from voting on a major waterfront development.
East Bay Express |
Robert Gammon |
02-26-2007 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
Locked Up in a Studionew
Jazz hotshot Howard Wiley blows out Deep South prison spirituals into an opus called The Angola Project.
East Bay Express |
Rachel Swan |
02-26-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Howard Wiley
Really Slow Foodnew
Alison Negrin traded in a glamorous chef career to reform abysmal hospital chow -- good luck with that.
East Bay Express |
John Birdsall |
02-26-2007 |
Food+Drink
It's Not Rocket Science
The Astronaut Farmer is a sputtering retro rocket that takes off on October Sky and crash-lands into a Field of Dreams.
Boulder Weekly |
Thomas Delapa |
02-26-2007 |
Reviews
Q&A with Michael Apted, Filmmakernew
The documentarian ranges from Bond flicks to the Up series and Amazing Grace.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Matt Prigge |
02-26-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Amazing Grace
Refighting History: 'Days of Glory' for Marginalized Soldiersnew
An angry, hardscrabble WWII tale of a North African platoon fighting for France.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Sean Burns |
02-26-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Days of Glory, Rachid Bouchareb
