AltWeeklies Wire
Sam Phillips Strips Down for 'Don't Do Anything'new
As on all of her best work, Phillips is humble and open-hearted, invitingly tuneful but unsparing in her assessment of the emotional wreckage she sees.
San Antonio Current |
Gilbert Garcia |
08-13-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Sam Phillips, Don't Do Anything
Gary Allan's Music Evolves an Emotional Edgenew
Last year's Living Hard followed, highlighted by the hit "Watching Airplanes," in which Allan lays on his car hood at the runway's edge, watching the lights go overhead, knowing his baby's gone, 30,000 miles above, and a million miles away.
San Antonio Current |
Chris Parker |
08-13-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Graham Vickers Examines the Causes and Consequences of 'Lolita'new
Less concerned with text than context, Vickers provides a lively account of the climate in which the novel was produced and received.
San Antonio Current |
Steven G. Kellman |
08-13-2008 |
Nonfiction
Being Tron Guynew
The Tron Plane was recently featured on Wired magazine's website, but that was hardly Tron Guy's first taste of fame. He has been a regular on Jimmy Kimmel Live, mocked on South Park, and the butt of ridicule on Fark.com, all just for being Tron Guy.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Ben Palosaari |
08-13-2008 |
Culture
Liquor Titan Phillips Distilling Aims Top Shelf With Organic Vodkanew
The Minnesota company wants you the think globally, drink locally.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Rachel Hutton |
08-13-2008 |
Food+Drink
Paul Westerberg Releases a New Online-only Concept Albumnew
The songs themselves—or the segments of the track that could be divvied up as songs, given that nothing on 49:00 is separated or labeled—are, for the most part, straightforward and representative of Westerberg's songwriting style.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Andrea Myers |
08-13-2008 |
Reviews
UFC 87: The Fight of Roger Huerta's Lifenew
The Minnesotan wasn't just facing Kenny Florian last weekend.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Kevin Hoffman |
08-13-2008 |
Sports
Do We Really Need the Gay Olympics Anymore?new
One organization might become obsolete thanks to the new queer visibility at the Olympics—a sporting event called the Gay Games. Every four years a cluster of queer folk gathers for the world’s largest LGBT-inclusive sporting event.
Willamette Week |
Byron Beck |
08-13-2008 |
Sports
Dirk Wittenborn Explores Psychopharmacology and Murder in 'Pharmakon'new
Wittenborn's previous novels, back in the early '80s, before his coke habit and virus-calcified heart brought him low enough to write screenplays, dealt with the safety-netted high wire of art brokers and the congenitally rich.
Willamette Week |
Matthew Korfhage |
08-13-2008 |
Fiction
New Report Casts Bad Light on Popular Sunscreensnew
The nonpartisan, nonprofit Environmental Working Group studied 952 sunscreens with a SPF of 15 or higher and discovered that 80 percent contain harmful chemicals and didn't really protect skin from the most damaging rays of the sun.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Amanda Witherell |
08-13-2008 |
Science
Woody Allen's European Sex Romp is a Shocking Triumphnew
Vicky Cristina Barcelona is a breezy triumph for Allen, not so much a return to form as a discovery of new perspective. It's the delight of an old jester discovering that his best material -- youth, and its illusions -- is inexhaustible.
Willamette Week |
Aaron Mesh |
08-13-2008 |
Reviews
'Tropic Thunder': When Satire Goes Badnew
Ben Stiller, Jack Black and Tom Cruise all play parodies of recognizable Hollywood types—the lunkhead, the coke fiend and the unscrupulous executive—but who exactly is Tom Cruise in the position to lampoon? This is a satire of movie-industry excess constructed by the very people made fat and happy by that industry.
Willamette Week |
Aaron Mesh |
08-13-2008 |
Reviews
Those Hoping to Rent Out Their Apartment During the RNC Face a Glut in the Marketnew
In the past few weeks, more than 700 would-be landlords have posted ads to Craiglist hoping to rent their homes to visiting Republicans during the first week of September. Yet of the more than three-dozen Craigslisters contacted by City Pages not a single one has rented out so much as a broom closet.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Jonathan Kaminsky |
08-13-2008 |
Politics
Bark Hide and Horn Debuts With Sprawling Sing-along Diary 'National Road'new
Inspired by singer Andy Fergeson's large collection of vintage National Geographic magazines, the record narrates the supposed adventures of Melville Bell Grosvenor, editor of the mag from 1957 to 1967 and grandson of Alexander Graham Bell.
Willamette Week |
Michael Mannheimer |
08-13-2008 |
Reviews
VJ-turned-archivist Dan Woods Tapes Men That Make the Whole World Singnew
The Ponyrock zine founder as compiled the ultimate indie rockumentary with no background in journalism or filmmaking. Then again, the unaffiliated press shouldn't land a chat with James Murphy in the first place. Nor Sonic Youth. For Kraftwerk, the New York Times should doubt its chances.
Willamette Week |
Jay Horton |
08-13-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
