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Swag Hagsnew

Movie after movie, Hollywood tries to buy off critics with tchotchkes.

Boston Phoenix | Peter Keough | 03-03-2006 | Movies

Where Is the Love?new

Brokeback Mountain perfectly captures our ambivalence about marriage -- gay and straight.

Boston Phoenix | Michael Bronski | 03-03-2006 | Movies

Six months after Katrina, less than half of New Orleans' pre-Katrina population has returned, entire neighborhoods remain empty and piles of garbage still clog some streets -- just buying a carton of milk is a challenge.

Boston Phoenix | Deirdre Fulton | 03-03-2006 | Disasters

Tags: disasters

Pop Fundamentalismnew

Matisyahu and Madonna embrace a holy plan.

Boston Phoenix | Josh Kun | 03-03-2006 | Music

Force of Naturenew

KT Tunstall aspires to be "a tomboy who can sing pretty if she wants to but has a really kick-ass, gnarly band."

Boston Phoenix | Ken Micallef | 03-03-2006 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: KT Tunstall, Eye to the Telescope

Pulling Up Lame

Let's just say that Paul Walker is the best thing about Running Scared -- it's that bad.

Washington City Paper | Tricia Olszewski | 03-03-2006 | Reviews

Tags: Running Scared, Wayne Kramer

Donner Paltry

If keeping the action fast and unrelenting makes for an exciting ride, well, it also makes for a rather unbelievable one.

Washington City Paper | Tricia Olszewski | 03-03-2006 | Reviews

Tags: Richard Donner, 16 Blocks

Butt Seriously

Largely redundant, the only thing Lovett really adds to the post-Stonewall mythography is to remind us how attractive men's bodies actually were in the 70s, before the plague.

Washington City Paper | Louis Bayard | 03-03-2006 | Reviews

Tags: Gay Sex in the 70s, Joseph Lovett

Courting Rituals

No one in front of or behind the camera in this film seems able to imagine a better outcome for a young black man from the projects than realizing those dreams of a Bentley and a Rolex and a shoe with his own name on it.

Washington City Paper | Louis Bayard | 03-03-2006 | Reviews

Tags: basketball, ESPN, hoop dreams, Jonathan Hock, Through the Fire