AltWeeklies Wire
The Girl Can't Help Itnew
The South Korean master of revenge dramas, Park Chan-wook, offers another entertaining puzzle of emotional nuance, riotous color, and bloody hell.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
06-30-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Lady Vengeance, Park Chan-wook
Barney and Bjork Confoundnew
Iconoclastic artist Matthew Barney and his paramour Bjork flood the screen with arresting images and sounds, and though little of it makes ordinary sense, it's compelling nevertheless.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
06-30-2006 |
Reviews
If the Shoe Fitsnew
A fresh and caustic take on the fashion industry is hobbled by a threadbare plot about a girl learning that it's wrong to sell her soul for designer shoes.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
06-30-2006 |
Reviews
Safe Travelsnew
At long last, Adam Sandler makes another watchable movie.
Missoula Independent |
Andy Smetanka |
06-30-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Click, Frank Coraci
Morel Dilemmanew
When the Forest Service shut down commercial mushroom picking in Montana, they forgot to consider one thing: Montana's mushroom pickers.
Missoula Independent |
John S. Adams |
06-30-2006 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
Leaving WWASPS' Nestnew
With the World Wide Association of Specialty Programs and Schools under increasing media scrutiny, Montana's Spring Creek Lodge decides to go it alone.
Missoula Independent |
John S. Adams |
06-30-2006 |
Children & Families
Tags: children & families
Linklater Pushes The Envelope
Richard Linklater gives an audacious cinematic adaptation of Philip K. Dick's 1977 novel about corporate/government surveillance of a public led by their noses with drug addictions similarly fueled and fed by the "system."
Budget Bustersnew
Potential layoffs, despite a six-figure surplus, bring strike threats to Philadelphia's public radio station, WHYY.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Andy Greenberg |
06-30-2006 |
Media
Tags: radio
The Huddled Masses? Remember?new
Why is the U.S. turning its back on local refugees?
Philadelphia City Paper |
Jenna Portnoy |
06-30-2006 |
Immigration
Tags: Immigration
Overeating for Fun and Profitnew
One day culinary student Pat Bertoletti hopes to run his own restaurant -- but he may never be as famous for his cooking as he is for stuffing his face.
Chicago Reader |
Kabir Hamid |
06-30-2006 |
Food+Drink
That Giant Sucking Soundnew
Could the worst days be behind the Philadelphia Daily News?
Philadelphia Weekly |
Steve Volk |
06-30-2006 |
Media
Tags: media
Rick Shticknew
Not every Santorum imitator can get laughs by pulling a plastic fetus out of a briefcase or delivering a stump speech in boxers.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Gwen Shaffer |
06-30-2006 |
Performance
Tags: performance
Found!new
Discovered in a file cabinet, a bronze relic may be a key to unlocking mysteries of Spanish history in Colorado.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Cara DeGette |
06-30-2006 |
History
Tags: history
'It Keeps Getting Worse'new
By standing up for what he believes, unequivocally, despite the potential political ramifications, Jack Murtha has chosen a rare road for politicians in this country.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Cassidy Hartmann |
06-30-2006 |
Politics
Tags: war in iraq, antiwar
