AltWeeklies Wire
Pittsburgh City Council is Like 'Big Brother 9'new
There was a time, about a year ago, when voters could hope that Pittsburgh City Council would be a different place. But with shifting alliances, hidden agendas and bad behavior, the council has become a reality show that is, unfortunately, all too real.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Charlie Deitch |
07-28-2008 |
Politics
Robert Englund Fesses Upnew
Robert Englund, the man who donned the burn marks, tattered fedora and steel fingers of Freddy Krueger for the Nightmare On Elm Street series, crept into town last week to scare up some publicity for his latest blood-and-guts role in Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer.
NOW Magazine |
Radheyan Simonpillai |
07-28-2008 |
Reviews
On October 27, 1962, the World Nearly Came to an Endnew
Much has been written about the ultimate crisis of the Cold War, but Michael Dobbs' account vividly captures the white-knuckled anxiety that gripped the White House and the Kremlin during those dark days.
NOW Magazine |
Howard Goldenthal |
07-28-2008 |
Nonfiction
Runner Matt Tegenkamp Looks Forward to His Olympic Momentnew
If Madison's Matt Tegenkamp is feeling nervous about running the race of his life at the Olympics in Beijing next month, he's not showing it.
'Wall-E: Machine Dreams' is a Rare, Humanistic Adventurenew
Wall-E's game play is entertaining, breezy and fairly addictive. As Wall-E, you roll across garbage heaps, past dust storms and through spaceships.
Isthmus |
Doug Elfman |
07-28-2008 |
Video Games
Nila Gupta Creates Real, Distinct and Well-Developed Characters in Her Debut Fictionnew
In The Sherpa And Other Fictions, she looks at the places she's known as home and bravely zooms in on areas of possible contention: a woman modernizes her father's sweet shop while he's on his death bed, Toronto cops raid Bloor Station, a daughter resists an arranged marriage.
NOW Magazine |
Tara-Michelle Ziniuk |
07-28-2008 |
Fiction
Katie Stelmanis Bridges the Classical/industrial Gapnew
Bands mix rap and rock, country and electronica, even klezmer and pop, but Katie Stelmanis has combined three styles that rarely interact: industrial, opera and classical.
NOW Magazine |
Bryan Borzykowski |
07-28-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Mulatu Astatke and the Swinging Addis Scene of the 60s Pop Up in Many Unlikely Places Latelynew
The seductive slink that characterizes the captivating music of Mulatu--who is to Ethiogroove what Fela Kuti is to Afrobeat--is a combustible concoction of traditional Ethiopian modes and rhythms mixed in with some nasty Nuyorican boogaloo and busted out with the boisterous bash of a Question Mark and the Mysterians frat rocker.
NOW Magazine |
Tim Perlich |
07-28-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Alt.Health: If the Shoe Hurtsnew
We may be slaves to the minimalist flip-flop, but they're a heel-to-toe disaster.
NOW Magazine |
Elizabeth Bromstein |
07-28-2008 |
Advice
RockyGrass Festival Breaks Free from Tradition While Staying True to its Rootsnew
Compared to its relative Telluride Bluegrass Festival, RockyGrass is a slightly smaller, more traditional affair. Traditional, that is, in a vague sense. In its 36th year, RockyGrass has grown to a three-day festival that spans more than a century of American roots music, from the banjo and mandolin songs with which we're most familiar to 21st century acoustic songwriting.
Boulder Weekly |
Margaret Hair |
07-28-2008 |
Music
Chaos and Competition Cause Santa Barbara Cabbies to Fear for Their Futurenew
Despite the hard work of taxicab drivers to keep the city safe at night and moving during the day, they're complaining that they're being treated as second-class citizens by City Hall, which has approved unprecedented numbers of taxi companies and cabs in recent years yet done little to accommodate the growth.
Santa Barbara Independent |
Matt Kettmann |
07-28-2008 |
Transportation
Ecoholic: Is Your Cottage a Lakefront Menace or an Earthly Paradise?new
Though I feel a little guilty about the drive, I love going to the cottage. Any advice on greening the experience?
NOW Magazine |
Adria Vasil |
07-28-2008 |
Advice
Six Reasons Why Harbourfront is Toronto's Hottest Summer Destinationnew
It's a shore thing.
NOW Magazine |
Staff |
07-28-2008 |
Travel
Santa Barbara Record Label and Recording Studio Tackle the Corporate Mentalitynew
Behind the scenes at Santa Barbara's Corporate Nightmare Records.
Santa Barbara Independent |
Brett Leigh Dicks |
07-28-2008 |
Music
Ken Ortiz Hopes No One in Chicago Will Ever Simply Demolish a Building Againnew
Ortiz is a contractor who takes down buildings and saves almost all the pieces. After doing construction for 25 years and throwing away "tons of good building materials," he delights in being able to save 23-foot-long two-by-sixes for reuse as two-by-sixes. And pretty much everybody else is delighted too -- environmentalists, preservationists, antiques dealers, even the folks who live around the houses he's taking down.
Chicago Reader |
Harold Henderson |
07-28-2008 |
Housing & Development
