AltWeeklies Wire
Where Rivers and Gurus Convergenew
This documentary about a massive yet surprisingly unknown spiritual gathering shows 70 million enlightenment-seekers arriving in Allahabad, India, where three holy rivers (one of which is a mythical, nonphysical river) converge.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
10-21-2005 |
Reviews
U Got the Looknew
It's not often you feel compelled to recommend a film almost entirely on the basis of its art direction, but that's the case with MirrorMask, luscious evidence that the look of modern fantasy cinema can amount to more than bald-faced Tim Burton swipes arriving 15 years after the fact.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
10-21-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Dave McKean, MirrorMask
Black and White and Red All Overnew
George Clooney's sophomore directorial outing, Good Night, and Good Luck, could be the soberest look a former TV star has ever taken at the medium that put him on the map.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
10-21-2005 |
Reviews
Hustle and Flownew
Damn the national consensus that Florida is a freak state -- we're just special. And one of the things that make us so special is the flow of natural waters through our unique geography of underground caverns.
Orlando Weekly |
Lindy T. Shepherd |
10-21-2005 |
TV
Tags: TV
No Deal for the Uninsurednew
Two years ago K.B. Forbes, founder of an advocacy group for the uninsured called Consejo de Latinos Unidos, traveled from his California home to Orlando, where he set about shaming the area's two biggest health care facilities: Florida Hospital and Orlando Regional Medical Center.
Orlando Weekly |
James Carlson |
10-21-2005 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
What's in a Word?new
On St. Valentine's Day, an amalgamation of religious groups calling itself the Florida Coalition to Protect Marriage announced its campaign to amend Florida's constitution to forever ban gay marriage.
Orlando Weekly |
Jeffrey C. Billman |
10-21-2005 |
LGBT
Tags: gay & lesbian issues
Frist Not the Last of GOP Insiders
Recent indictments and investigations of GOP lawmakers, lobbyists and associates are only the tip of the iceberg, according to longtime observers, including current and former true believers in the GOP cause.
Random Lengths News |
Paul Rosenberg |
10-21-2005 |
Politics
Media at a Crossroads: 25 Years After Reagan’s Triumph
By a twist of political fate, the Oct. 28 deadline for special
counsel Patrick Fitzgerald to take action on the Plamegate matter is
exactly 25 years after the only debate of the presidential race between
Ronald Reagan and incumbent Jimmy Carter.
Random Lengths News |
Norman Solomon |
10-21-2005 |
Commentary
Making Kanye West Seem Quaintnew
P.O.S. knows how to catch you off-guard. You never know if he'll be swinging his ass off Twista fast, speaking asymmetrically in asides, jarring you with things said under his breath, or teasing you with long silences.
Orlando Weekly |
Makkada B. Selah |
10-21-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Resident Zinnnew
Springfield-based indie-rock band Resident Genius got its wish -- it's just released an album that features social activist and historian Howard Zinn.
Illinois Times |
Tom Irwin |
10-21-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Casting a Wide Net for Illinois State Employeesnew
It’s a challenge keeping track of all the ongoing criminal investigations swirling around the administration of Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich.
Illinois Times |
Rich Miller |
10-21-2005 |
Politics
Hard to Label This Applenew
Dissatisfied with the first version of her CD, Fiona Apple went back to the studio with a new producer: The result is opium instead of ecstasy.
Illinois Times |
Rene Spencer Saller |
10-21-2005 |
Reviews
Illinois State Workers Stepped Up to Help After Katrinanew
Floyd Schleyhahn was one of 39 state workers sent to Bogalusa, La., 70 miles north of New Orleans. Schleyhahn came back with a detailed journal, and a
long-distance friendship with a young family that had endured loss after
loss.
Illinois Times |
Bruce Rushton |
10-21-2005 |
Disasters
Meet Mr. Valerie Plamenew
Joseph Wilson might be the man who brings down Karl Rove. Here’s a rundown of the blossoming GOP scandals and what Wilson thinks about them.
Seattle Weekly |
Rick Anderson |
10-21-2005 |
Politics
Was the War Really Necessary?new
A best-selling history of the Revolutionary War makes a reader wonder if that first war could have been avoided and whether its ultimate success, and the consequent linking of violence with freedom, led to the war in Iraq.
Illinois Times |
Fletcher Farrar |
10-21-2005 |
Nonfiction
