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Legacy Cementednew
Forget that little crisis in the Middle East; the real war is the one metal legend Max Cavalera and his bandmates have declared on the music industry.
Tucson Weekly |
Jon Hobson |
07-31-2008 |
Reviews
Boys Among Mennew
Step Brothers is funny enough--but the duo of Ferrell and Reilly can do better.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
07-31-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Adam McKay, Step Brothers
Home Sweet Homenew
Brideshead Revisited suffers from having 11 hours worth of story crammed into 135 minutes.
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
07-31-2008 |
Reviews
Motley Crue Stages a Motley Crue Broadway Musicalnew
The band's new album, Saints of Los Angeles, is a song-by-song chronicling of the members' days of debauchery, from coming up on the Sunset Strip to their various failed centerfold romances.
Brideshead's Period Appeal Still Charmsnew
Sir John Mortimer was beside himself over rumors that the feature-length adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s 1945 novel Brideshead Revisited might ignore religion, homosexuality and Aloysius. (Mortimer wrote the screenplay for the 1981 TV miniseries adaptation.)
Orlando Weekly |
Liz Langley |
07-31-2008 |
Reviews
Haruki Murakami on Runningnew
Murakami's new book, What I Talk about When I Talk about Running, is such a memoir: Murakami here treats long-distance running as both a routine that has physically sustained him for more than 20 years, and a metaphor for his workhorse approach to writing.
The Portland Mercury |
Marjorie Skinner |
07-31-2008 |
Nonfiction
A Survey of Milos Forman's Worknew
Orphaned at a young age during World War II, Miloš Forman became one of the prominent directors of the Czech New Wave in the 1960s.
The Portland Mercury |
Ned Lannamann |
07-31-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Czech New Wave
Arty Jokers Aren't Above Making Good Songsnew
Created mostly by member Mark Hosler, the latest album by longtime culture-jamming art pranksters Negativland is more outlandish than mischievous.
Orlando Weekly |
Bao Le-Huu |
07-31-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Negativland, Thigmotactic
Brendan Fraser Ruins Everythingnew
With this week's release of a third Mummy movie following Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D, we've been cursed with an unholy attack no other generation has had to endure: Two Brendan Fraser movies in a single month.
The Portland Mercury |
Erik Henriksen |
07-31-2008 |
Movies
Boston's Other Great Punk Band Comes Into Its Ownnew
Unless they suddenly turn rap or something jarringly divergent like that, Street Dogs will always be compared to fellow Boston boys Dropkick Murphys. Both bands epitomize the same Southie tough-guy aesthetic, both proudly espouse the proletariat ethos and both express it through chanting anthems cut from the same fists-and-pints street punk cloth.
Orlando Weekly |
Bao Le-Huu |
07-31-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: State of Grace, Street Dogs
Brendan Fraser Meets Another Mummy ... and Some Yetisnew
Based on The Mummy franchise alone, it would be real easy to hate Brendan Fraser ... but, damn if the dude isn't totally harmless and likeable.
The Portland Mercury |
Courtney Ferguson |
07-31-2008 |
Reviews
Neil Patrick Harris Stuns as a Signing Supervillian in Joss Whedon's Online Musicalnew
Academy Award–nominated writer Joss Whedon (Toy Story) has a way with words. As pointed out in the PBS documentary Do You Speak American?, Whedon’s legendary TV show, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, “challenged linguistic taboos and introduced new words and phrases in nearly every show.”
Orlando Weekly |
Justin Strout |
07-31-2008 |
Performance
Tags: performance
The Prids Crash. The Prids Survive.new
"We were driving and a tire blew. I struggled to correct it and the van started fishtailing. I just couldn't get it."
The Portland Mercury |
Ezra Ace Caraeff |
07-31-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Prids
First Shotnew
It’s official: Movies are still your best entertainment value. Especially if you stop counting everything else.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
07-31-2008 |
Movies
Live Active Culturenew
Mad Cow Theatre made a strong case for the theater as the last refuge for rational political discourse with last Sunday’s politics-themed entry in their ongoing Salon Series, occasioned by their opening weekend of George Bernard Shaw’s Major Barbara.
Orlando Weekly |
Seth Kubersky |
07-31-2008 |
Theater
Tags: theater
