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Stephanie Kuehnert on Her Debut Novel, 'I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone'new
Everyone wants to be a rock star. Kuehnert’s protagonist and narrator, Emily Black, is no different. Living in a tiny town in Wisconsin, left alone with her father as an infant when her mother hit the road following her own rock-star dreams, Emily's now your favorite teenager, much cooler than you were when you were there, the dark hair, the red lipstick and the witty asides and retorts all part of the angst-ridden fireball.
Chicago Newcity |
Tom Lynch |
07-02-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Celebrating 'Hancock,' Peter Berg's Latest Genre Mashupnew
Anticipation runs high for further blackening of Batman's soul in The Dark Knight, but the Fourth of July weekend belongs to Hancock, a handsomely haywire comic-tragic concoction that flies high, sideways, off course and straight up in the air.
Chicago Newcity |
Ray Pride |
07-02-2008 |
Reviews
Who is Portland's King of the Chrome, Spinnaface?new
Like Batman or Portland's own Famous Mysterious Actor, the emcee refuses to divulge the man behind the mask.
Willamette Week |
Sara Moskovitz |
07-02-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Big Pharma is After Your Confidential Medical Recordsnew
A state bill that would have eroded California's strong medical privacy laws nearly passed last month. The Mental Health Association of California, the National Association of Cancer Patients, and other important health advocacy organizations supported the measure, saying they believed it would improve compliance and save lives. But the bill's opponents, which included the California Medical Association and many consumer groups, asserted that the legislation was not really about helping patients.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Jake Whitney |
07-02-2008 |
Science
Oakland Hyphy God Keak da Sneak Drops a New Full-Lengthnew
While major-label discs by Mistah FAB and Clyde Carson continue to languish, Deified could be the breakthrough everyone's hoping for. With his diehard local following, plus an instantly recognizable, burbling, volcanic growl spewing out new slang like "hyphy" and "fasheezy," Keak has a real shot at shattering the glass ceiling frustrating the Bay's national ambitions.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Garrett Caples |
07-02-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Trendzilla: Summer-Music-Festival Hippiewearnew
The tricky part, other than scrounging up enough cash to buy that $285 three-day pass and figuring out how you’re going to catch My Morning Jacket and Portishead at the same time, is in trying to maximize your comfort level in 100-degree heat while trying to look every bit as cool as the kids in VIP.
Hip-hop Newcomer D/Will Gets Cerebral on Two New Releasesnew
He approaches music with the kind of devout seriousness usually reserved for, say, a theologian contemplating transubstantiation. The dude is emphatically not messing around.
The Pitch |
Nadia Pflaum |
07-02-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Lil Wayne: Totally Sane in the Membranenew
Despite drinking enough syrup to kill a small horse, Lil Wayne is actually quite calculated.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Ben Westhoff |
07-02-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
The Hates Retrospective Proof Sometimes It's Good When Things Don't Changenew
Houston's Hates — or at least the trio's sole remaining original member, singer/guitarist Christian Arnheiter — have been waving the circle-A punk-rock flag loud and
Houston Press |
Chris Gray |
07-02-2008 |
Reviews
Rep. Charlie Gonzalez Explains His FISA Misgivingsnew
The Texas Representative stuck to his promise to oppose the FISA reform legislation that the House passed last week if it contained a retroactive immunity provision to protect the telecoms suspected of aiding the Bush Administration in its illegal post-9/11 warrantless wiretapping program.
San Antonio Current |
Elaine Wolff |
07-02-2008 |
Politics
Medicare: One Doc's Opinionnew
Ted Mazer, an ear-nose-and-throat guy who has been involved in the Medicare fight for seven years, takes on a national problem.
San Diego CityBeat |
David Rollan |
07-02-2008 |
Science
'Gonzo' Looks into the Minds of Hunter S. Thompsonnew
Gibney says that he was drawn to his latest subject largely because of that persona. "He was a guy who didn't play by the rules, and it seems like we need a guy like that around now, when the rules are being used against us by people in power."
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Cheryl Eddy |
07-02-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
'Hancock' is no 'Men in Black,' but It Still Teems with Destruction, Funninessnew
It's no Men in Black, but still teems with destruction, funniness
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Amber Humphrey |
07-02-2008 |
Reviews
Is There a Middle Way in the Globalization Debate?new
As Sick Planet: Corporate Food and Medicine, by Stan Cox, and Starved for Science: How Biotechnology Is Being Kept Out Of Africa, by Robert Paarlberg collectively demonstrate, the globalization debate seems to demand either a stifling of common sense, or a radical reassessment of assumptions.
The Texas Observer |
James E. McWilliams |
07-02-2008 |
Nonfiction
Why Doesn't Oregon Let Bounty Hunters Chase Down its Most Wanted?new
Since 1974, this state has banned bail bondsmen from operating inside its borders -- one of only four states in the country to do so. Critics say it's no coincidence that in Portland alone, there are thousands of wanted criminals walking the streets.
Willamette Week |
James Pitkin |
07-02-2008 |
Crime & Justice
