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Jersey Boysnew
Kevin Smith returns to solid footing with this sequel, which finds the filmmaker and his raunchy protagonists at the precipice of maturity but moving ahead with cautious baby steps.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
07-20-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Clerks II, Kevin Smith
Drenched in Hokumnew
The performances are bang-on and there are moments of great beauty throughout, but Lady in the Water ultimately capsizes under the weight of its own goofy story.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
07-20-2006 |
Reviews
Baby Shamblesnew
If you can accept the very idea of Shawn Wayans’ face on the body of an infantilized baby-man in diapers, who’s to care about the quality of anything else in the movie?
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
07-20-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Little Man, Keenen Ivory Wayans
Nobody's Homenew
This animated tale of a carnivorous, haunted house and the band of neighborhood kids who decide to put it out of commission feels maddeningly unfinished.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
07-20-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Gil Kenan, Monster House
Blank Generationnew
At once subtle and completely over the top, the comedy of co-creators Paul Dinello, Stephen Colbert, and Amy Sedaris rival some of the best in its audacity and absurdity.
Austin Chronicle |
Toddy Burton |
07-20-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Paul Dinello, Strangers With Candy
Gender-Bendernew
As courts grapple with same-sex marriage laws, a new twist emerges: How do you define man and woman?
Style Weekly |
Amy Biegelsen |
07-20-2006 |
LGBT
Tags: gay & lesbian issues
When Irony Doesn't Cut Itnew
We look at the incidental side of 80s music.
Orlando Weekly |
Billy Manes |
07-20-2006 |
Reviews
Reluctant Rocker v. the Machinenew
A finally content Travis Adams speaks about newly formed band, Inkwell, the bad feelings surrounding flameout of My Hotel Year, and the many ways he got lost with music.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
07-20-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Inkwell
Life Preceding Wartimenew
Former Peace Corps volunteer John Sumser's new book aims to show that Afghanistan "is a place and not just a disaster."
Missoula Independent |
Jason Wiener |
07-20-2006 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: A Land Without Time, John Sumser
World Championship Fruit Leathernew
What if farming was covered like sport?
Missoula Independent |
Ari LeVaux |
07-20-2006 |
Food+Drink
Graffiti's Moralitynew
One man's street art is another man's vandalism.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
07-20-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Benjamin Morgan, quality of life
Melton Targets Homeless Peoplenew
Jackson Mayor Frank Melton extended his state of emergency on crime to include a curfew on homeless people -- advocates for the homeless are enraged.
Jackson Free Press |
Adam Lynch |
07-20-2006 |
Civil Liberties
Tags: civil liberties
No Regretsnew
Upon the release of his 26th book, best-selling author James Lee Burke looks back -- and doesn't hold back -- on a lifetime of writing.
Missoula Independent |
Skylar Browning |
07-20-2006 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
JPD Under Fire in Abortion Clashnew
With a week of protests underway by Operation Save America, and hundreds of abortion-rights advocates marching in counter-protest, Jackson police are under fire for draconian permit policies and arrests.
Jackson Free Press |
Adam Lynch and Donna Ladd |
07-20-2006 |
Sex
Battlefield Earthnew
World War III? No thanks, Newt ...
Missoula Independent |
George Ochenski |
07-20-2006 |
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