AltWeeklies Wire
Super Soaker
NBC's addictively dumb sci-fi soaker Surface treads water.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Bill Frost |
01-30-2006 |
TV
Tags: TV
The New Texas Family Planningnew
Slashed budgets and anti-abortion politics undermine women's health care.
Austin Chronicle |
Jordan Smith |
01-30-2006 |
Sex
Monkey See, Monkey Donew
Sure, Love Monkey is a rip-off of High Fidelity, but that's petty theft compared to the greater crimes committed by this show.
Boulder Weekly |
Vince Darcangelo |
01-30-2006 |
TV
Tags: TV
A Gamer's Guilty Pleasurenew
Silent Scope Complete is the El Camino of video games -- it may not be high class, but it sure is fun to look at.
Boulder Weekly |
Todd Michael Shaffer |
01-30-2006 |
Video Games
Tags: video games
Fool-ish Gamesnew
Live-action role players make Colorado University the domain of vampires and werewolves.
Boulder Weekly |
Vince Darcangelo |
01-30-2006 |
Culture
Tags: lifestyles
Yahoo!’s One-man News Armynew
Kevin Sites was best known for igniting a major controversy when his camera captured a US Marine shooting a wounded Iraqi in a mosque in Fallujah, but today he's reporting from Iraq for Yahoo!.
Boston Phoenix |
Mark Jurkowitz |
01-30-2006 |
Media
Tags: media
Phish-ing tripsnew
What is the lasting influence of a band who saw no barriers?
Boston Phoenix |
Jeff Miller |
01-30-2006 |
Music
Hollywood Gives Bush the Fingernew
Lefty films look good for this year's Oscars.
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Keough |
01-30-2006 |
Movies
Don't Ask, Don't Tellnew
The Bush team chants, "We do not torture," but nobody around the world believes them.
The Village Voice |
Nat Hentoff |
01-30-2006 |
War
Tags: war & peace
Pope's No Dopenew
If you think the music industry invented copyrights, behold the Vatican's old score.
The Village Voice |
Julian Dibbell |
01-30-2006 |
Media
Tags: media
The Bush-Abramoff Photo Scrubnew
A blogger searches for the missing pictures.
The Village Voice |
James Ridgeway with Michael Roston |
01-30-2006 |
Politics
What's Up, Hip-Hop Doc?new
Michael Eric Dyson has achieved pop-star status since his public thrashing of Bill Cosby, but recent fame has made the professor a controversial figure in his own right.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Kia Gregory |
01-30-2006 |
Race & Class
Tags: race relations
Creating a Blank Canvasnew
Legendary dub artist Mad Professor talks about his history and his future.
Seattle Weekly |
Makkada B. Selah |
01-30-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Mad Professor
Dodging Categorizationnew
Buyer beware: This is not a "hip-hop" record -- P.O.S. favors troubled crooning over rhymes, and when he's supposed to be rapping, he’s ranting.
Baltimore City Paper |
Makkada B. Selah |
01-30-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: P.O.S., P.O.S. Is Ruining My Life
Take This Womannew
Piper Perabo plays a boring bride with an untimely lesbian streak in this new film.
Tags: Imagine Me & You, Ol Parker
