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'Trouble the Water': The Big Uneasynew
This new documentary goes into the eye of the Hurricane Katrina disaster that wiped out a community.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
09-04-2008 |
Reviews
Maps & Atlases Finally Give Us More Songsnew
When Maps & Atlases' Tree, Swallows, Houses EP broke in 2006, it felt as if the band was taunting you, that the math-rock wizardry was almost antagonistic in its assault.
Chicago Newcity |
Tom Lynch |
09-04-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
A New Rom-com Tries to Convince Us That We Want to Be Italiannew
If a movie is written and directed by a man married to an Italian woman, is the use of jaw-dropping stereotypes acceptable?
New York Press |
Mark Peikert |
09-04-2008 |
Reviews
Chad Allen and Judith Light Present Conflicted Sexuality with Originalitynew
Save Me's title is both a secular and spiritual plea from people with no control over their emotional lives. This wide-ranging understanding is what makes Robert Cary's gay-themed movie interesting. It’s neither a problem nor a protest movie.
New York Press |
Armond White |
09-04-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Robert Cary, Save Me
Debut Novel Depicts Chuck Klosterman's Former Small Town Lifenew
Downtown Owl is Klosterman’s first novel. Though he manages to name-drop ZZ Top, the Rolling Stones, and The Price is Right, he mostly offers a fictional supplement to his debut book, Fargo Rock City: Owl is a small North Dakota town of 800 in the early 1980s, devoid of pop culture.
Charleston City Paper |
Susan Cohen |
09-04-2008 |
Fiction
Tags: Chuck Klosterman, Downtown Owl
ZZ Packer's New Short Fiction Challenges Old Notions of Identitynew
It’s a tangle Packer addresses when she marks the border between the “Southerners” and “southerners.”
“Southerners, in full possession of that capital ‘S,’ stroll through life with an unassailable sense of right and wrong,” she writes. “Right: chicken-fried steak, Jesus, zero taxation; wrong: vegetarianism, psychiatry, Birkenstocks. The ‘southerner,’ lowercase, does not stroll so much as simper.”
Charleston City Paper |
Jon Santiago |
09-04-2008 |
Fiction
'Blue Dixie' Explodes Political Myths About the South, Perpetuates Othersnew
Conventional wisdom holds that the South is a solid GOP bloc, lost to Democrats forever, with a single stroke of LBJ's pen. But like most unchallenged "truths," this one is nothing but a media-generated myth that has had dire consequences for the democratic process.
Charleston City Paper |
Dylan Hales |
09-04-2008 |
Nonfiction
Radioactive Brooklynnew
Radioactive waste has existed in Williamsburg for decades, but thanks to gentrification, its half-life may be up.
New York Press |
Sarah Clyne Sundberg |
09-04-2008 |
Environment
My Boy, Joe Bidennew
My one and only encounter with the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, back in 1984, almost ended my journalism career before it started.
Style Weekly |
David M. Poole |
09-04-2008 |
Commentary
Arts Axed: Canada Hacks into Arts Funding
With $45 million to be removed from the Canadian government's arts funding, where does this leave various arts organizations?
Monday Magazine |
Amanda Farrell |
09-03-2008 |
Policy Issues
Paradise, Lost: Why 'Beyond Eden' May be the Best Musical You'll Never See
For 20 years, B.C. composer Bruce Ruddell has been working on his epic musical, Beyond Eden. But less than eight months before it was set to debut, it collapsed like the aboriginal culture at the heart of the show.
Monday Magazine |
John Threlfall |
09-03-2008 |
Theater
Cookie Caper: Secure Browsing Flaw Reveals a Nasty Exploitnew
I was crushed to see the Cookie Monster has been dabbling in "grey hat" SSL exploit hacking. The gleefully delusional crumb muncher is the mascot of a new cookie-snatching hack that can collect your login info on Gmail, Netflix, or even your bank. Well, he's not real, but the danger is.
Charleston City Paper |
Joshua Curry |
09-03-2008 |
Tech
'American Teen' Documents High School's 'Total Caste System' and Morenew
Documentarian Nanette Burstein spent an entire school year at the only high school in tiny Warsaw, Ind., where there is no escape from the pressure cooker of adolescence or from conservative small-town conformity.
Charleston City Paper |
Maryann Johanson |
09-03-2008 |
Reviews
Sick Story: The Next Generation of Doctors Sees Patients as 'Authors'new
Many would consider Matt Dettmer to be the picture of an ideal doctor, one who combines an aptitude for science with the humanistic insight of an artist. But in many ways Dettmer isn't unique -- he's part of a growing trend at medical universities in which courses in the humanities are playing a larger role in educating the next generation of doctors.
Charleston City Paper |
Morrow Dowdle |
09-03-2008 |
Science
That '70s Essay: Or, Where Did We Think We'd End Up After 30 Years of Denial?new
Conventional wisdom holds that if you lose something important, it's prudent to retrace your steps. And there's a bumper crop of books on the shelves right now examining exactly that: What we lost, as a nation, somewhere between the latter half of the 20th century and today.
Charleston City Paper |
Jason A. Zwiker |
09-03-2008 |
Nonfiction
