AltWeeklies Wire
Rock Your Socks Off, Babynew
How much you'll love (or loathe) JB and KG's passion for the power chord and all it entails will depend, most likely, on your familiarity with the duo beforehand.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
11-22-2006 |
Reviews
Art and Politicsnew
Documentarian Freida Lee Mock presents her subject as a play in three acts, but the academic and fragmented structure obscures the warmth of this playwright.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
11-22-2006 |
Reviews
The Governor's 'Political Prisoner'new
Governor John Baldacci's administration sent the Maine State Prison's chief human-rights advocate, inmate Deane Brown, to a dangerous prison more than 500 miles away.
Portland Phoenix |
Lance Tapley |
11-22-2006 |
Civil Liberties
Tags: civil liberties
Our Real Founding Father?new
It's too bad John Cooke is not around anymore -- the 17th-century English lawyer who turned the divine right of kings to rule unquestioned into a crime punishable by death would be welcome here in our waning democracy.
Portland Phoenix |
Jeff Inglis |
11-22-2006 |
Nonfiction
Maine Moviemakersnew
While Hollywood may have the big bucks, Mainers are making a strong go of movie-making all on their own, and we encourage more of the same -- here are the winners of our first-ever Maine Short Film Festival.
Portland Phoenix |
Jeff Inglis and Sara Donnelly |
11-22-2006 |
Art
Tags: visual arts
Campus Crushnew
San Francisco State University has ambitious expansion plans -- and its neighbors aren't exactly thrilled.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Andrew Tolve |
11-22-2006 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
Let's Stalk Turkeynew
We sent our intern into the woods with a shotgun, with the hope he'd shoot us a Thanksgiving bird.
Willamette Week |
Bradley Campbell |
11-22-2006 |
Recreation
Tags: recreation
Cheesier Than Velveeta's Factorynew
Schorr gives Portland the suspense thriller it never knew it wanted.
Willamette Week |
Michael Byrne |
11-22-2006 |
Fiction
Tags: Borderline, Mark Schorr
The Other Home of Bay Hip-Hopnew
Move over, Oakland and exurbia hyphy -- San Francisco's Fillmore District unleashes its own fresh wave of rappers.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Garrett Caples |
11-22-2006 |
Music
Robert Altman, 1925-2006new
Altman will be missed, but more importantly, he will be appreciated.
Willamette Week |
David Walker |
11-22-2006 |
Movies
Happiness Sciencenew
While neuroscience struggles to untangle the mystery of whether dopamine boosts our happiness and which parts of the brain are active when people report being happy, social science has an easy answer: Just ask.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Annalee Newitz |
11-22-2006 |
Commentary
Guilty of Independent Journalismnew
The murder of Brad Will by gunmen in the employ of Oaxaca's bloodthirsty governor segues into the denial of the courts to release 24-year-old Josh Wolf from prison during the life of a federal grand jury.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
John Ross |
11-22-2006 |
Media
Tags: media
Starving to Livenew
Followers of calorie-restricted diets think their eat-less approach will help them live longer -- but is it worth living without Granny's pumpkin pie?
Willamette Week |
Brittany Schaeffer |
11-22-2006 |
Food+Drink
Two Words: Anal. Probe.new
If you were a fan of the first game, if you're looking for a new action-adventure title to waste all your free time on, or if you're just a sucker for campy, pop-culture humor, you can't go wrong with Destroy All Humans! 2.
Dig Boston |
Seth Mcm. Donlin |
11-22-2006 |
Video Games
Tags: video games
Intensive TMInew
If you don't really want to know what the boot-in-bush ritual is (hint: yes, it's exactly what you think), then this isn't the book for you.
Dig Boston |
Mason Stewart |
11-22-2006 |
Nonfiction
