AltWeeklies Wire
More Star Wars?new
Star Wars: The Clone Wars, the franchise’s new animated feature, doesn't come within light years of the original entry's glory, but it's a welcome relief from the last three.
San Diego CityBeat |
Anders Wright |
08-13-2008 |
Reviews
Kip Fulbeck's New Book Tells Us All About the Writing on the Skinnew
His new book, Permanence, shows photographs of 115 people with tattoos, each photo paired with the person’s handwritten statement.
San Diego CityBeat |
Barbara Davenport |
08-13-2008 |
Nonfiction
Paramore: At Least They're Enjoying the Ridenew
Riding a wave of success, young band prepares for next album.
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) |
Jeff Hahne |
08-13-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
The Vast Wastelandnew
What's so real about reality television?
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) |
Nsenga Burton |
08-13-2008 |
TV
An Old Punk's Guide to the 2008 Vans Warped Tournew
The Warped Tour is back for its 14th year, and with it comes the annual query, "What's so punk about the Warped Tour anyway?" It's a loaded question.
San Diego CityBeat |
Jim Ruland |
08-13-2008 |
Concerts
Where-Fi?: An underground scouting report on Lowcountry wi-fi hotspotsnew
How to find the best places to leech wi-fi.
Charleston City Paper |
Joshua Curry |
08-13-2008 |
Tech
Tags: computers & technology
The End of Deliberate Ugliness: How to reclaim the historic role of art in expressing spiritualitynew
Gail Sickel was searching in the 1970s, a dynamic period still roiling with the social and political upheavals of the decade before. The United States was still sunk in the quagmire of a foreign war. Coming of age amid this influence of anxiety, Sickel was part of a boom of young, idealistic Americans searching for new ways to express spirituality.
"I was looking for oneness," she says, reflecting on that time. "I was a seeker and eventually I found an experience that was heart-focused."
That experience was the Dances of Universal Peace.
Charleston City Paper |
John Stoehr |
08-13-2008 |
Performance
Tags: performance
Americans Might Find it Hard to Enjoy a Novel About Men Who Hate Womennew
This is easily one of the worst books I've ever read. And bear in mind that I've read John Grisham. I've read the Sweet Valley Middle School, High School, and University books.
Charleston City Paper |
Susan Cohen |
08-13-2008 |
Fiction
Marc Acito's New Novel is a Fun, Easy Read for One Catty Couplenew
To give it a fair shot, Attack of the Theater People, a new novel about a gay musical lover, was assigned for review to a couple of hopelessly devoted theater people who, a decade ago, shared a script on the set of their college production of Oklahoma!, swapped silly jokes about chaps, and longed for each other amid the rolling thunder of papier-mâché tumbleweeds.
Charleston City Paper |
Greg Hambrick and Shane Sears |
08-13-2008 |
Fiction
Boise Streetcar Plans Trump State Transit Inactionnew
Boise is joining the medium-sized city streetcar boom with plans to put in a short line downtown in the next four or five years.
Boise Weekly |
Nathaniel Hoffman |
08-13-2008 |
Transportation
'Tropic Thunder' Wasn't the Expected Rambo-style Satirenew
What I got, and what I should have expected, was a rather well-produced and spectacle-driven broad action-comedy that should satisfy anyone not expecting a wealth of subtle or subversive humor. Duh, right?
San Antonio Current |
Brian Villalobos |
08-13-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Ben Stiller, Tropic Thunder
An Ex-Scientologist and Online Pranksters Try to Bring Down the Controversial Religionnew
Before January, no one dreamed that Tommy Gorman would be backed up by the most unlikely of allies: an army of internet geeks pissed about a censored Tom Cruise video. The troops call themselves Anonymous, the president of the San Francisco Church of Scientology calls them the "electric Klan," and they have stepped out of cyberspace in masks to bring down Scientology, too.
'In Plain Sight' is Just Plain Badnew
After a half-decade of success as a station of lovable neurotics — Tony Shaloub's eponymous Monk; the idiosyncratic spies of Burn Notice, etc. — USA's thrown a curveball in the character of Mary Shannon, a neurotic who is quite the opposite of lovable.
San Antonio Current |
Luke Baumgarten |
08-13-2008 |
TV
Republicans, Democrats Trade Barbs Over Energy Independencenew
The war on terror. The war on drugs. Welfare reform. Family values. Remember those? Every single one was a signature issue of a general election campaign designed to distract the voting public from critical challenges facing the US. This year it's energy independence. Woo-hoo!
Charleston City Paper |
D.A. Smith |
08-13-2008 |
Commentary
Election '08: The Confusion Campaignnew
As we approach the national political conventions, we all know this promises to be a mean season. Has America transcended its racist past? We're about to find out. Or are we? The landscape is already so littered with political detritus that it's hard to find a reliable vantage point from which to get a clear view of the world.
The Texas Observer |
Geoff Rips |
08-13-2008 |
Commentary
