AltWeeklies Wire
'Iron Man' Hits All the Requisite Superhero Beatsnew
Summer-blockbuster season kicks off adequately and predictably with Iron Man, a perfectly entertaining superhero movie that fulfills all the requirements of its genre admirably, but never rises beyond the level of baseline satisfaction.
Las Vegas Weekly |
Josh Bell |
05-02-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Jon Favreau, Iron Man
UNLV Prof Questions Science Behind Finding African Ancestorsnew
Rainier Spencer, the founder and director of UNLV's Afro-American Studies Program, thinks programs offering to link American blacks to their African lineage through DNA (for a fee) are a black-on-black rip-off, since they commercialize a promise they can't truly keep.
Las Vegas Weekly |
Damon Hodge |
05-02-2008 |
Race & Class
Flap Over Vodka Ad Begs for a Little Revisionist Historynew
U.S. Absolut drinkers were drunk on furious rage recently when word got out that the company was running an ad in Mexico depicting a pre-1848 North American map -- when Mexico controlled the entire Southwest and California -- with the tagline "In an Absolut World."
Las Vegas Weekly |
Tovin Lapan |
05-02-2008 |
Commentary
Poisoned by Purina: The Case of the Alpaca Massacrenew
Jerry Forstner's farmhands found alpacas bleeding from the eyes and shrieking in pain, as a result of eating feed from Purina Mills that was dosed with salinomycin -- a chemical used to kill parasites in pigs and chickens, but which is deadly to alpacas.
Cleveland Scene |
Denis Grollmus |
05-02-2008 |
Animal Issues
Kidnapped Journalist Talks About His Ordealnew
The BBC's Alan Johnston refused to cover the Mideast conflict from comfort of a hotel, and was kept in a three-month captivity as a result.
NOW Magazine |
Glenn Wheeler |
05-02-2008 |
Media
Nortec Collective's Bostich + Fussible Stay Groundednew
Nortec Collective Presents Bostich + Fussible: Tijuana Sound Machine is all about returning to roots and root inspirations, while constantly evolving as electronic composers.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Will K. Shilling |
05-02-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
'Standard Operating Procedure' Deconstructs the Abu Ghraib Photosnew
Once again, Errol Morris is dealing with war at its morally foggiest.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Andy Klein |
05-02-2008 |
Reviews
Fatih Akin on His Complex 'The Edge of Heaven'new
For most filmgoers, the network narrative has become a crashing bore. But the Turkish-German filmmaker Fatih Akin's latest film reinvigorates this screenwriting ploy, breathing new life into something I'd written off for dead.
Montreal Mirror |
Matthew Hays |
05-02-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Fatih Akin, The Edge of Heaven
Robyn Returns in Command of Her Own Careernew
While many of her tabloid-bait contemporaries have crashed and burned, today the 28-year-old Swede is a comeback queen.
Montreal Mirror |
Erik Leijon |
05-02-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Robyn
'Infidelities' Explores the Struggles of Croatians at Home and Abroadnew
Novakovich's collection of short stories represents a departure from the standard narrative of Eastern Europeans leaving the old country behind. It flows from a more fluid consciousness, able to shift between the horrors, joys and ordinary realities of both worlds.
Montreal Mirror |
Juliet Waters |
05-02-2008 |
Fiction
The Kills are on Targetnew
The duo weathered hurricanes, new-age hippies and tabloid hell to make Midnight Boom.
Montreal Mirror |
Lorraine Carpenter |
05-02-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Kills, Midnight Boom
'Made of Honor' is a Humdrum Rom-Comnew
The leads have no chemistry, it isn't very funny, "made of honor" doesn't even make sense as a phrase, and it is definitely a waste of your time.
Montreal Mirror |
Mark Slutsky |
05-02-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Made of Honor, Paul Weiland
Think You Know John McCain?new
The Republican presidential candidate makes much of his loyalty to and support for this nation's armed forces, as well as the suffering he endured as a prisoner of war in Vietnam. So why won't he support a new and improved version of the G.I. Bill for those who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan?
Shepherd Express |
Lisa Kaiser |
05-02-2008 |
Politics
PETA Plays Chicken: Animal Rights Group Seeks Fake Meatnew
Is an organization that has traditionally called on people to abandon their desire to consume flesh going soft? And what's with using genetic modification, the bane of the eco movement, in the name of ending factory farming?
NOW Magazine |
Paul Terefenko |
05-02-2008 |
Food+Drink
Here Comes Hollywood's First-Ever Mega-Skyscrapernew
A community thrown into shadow and vistas of the Hollywood sign could be destroyed.
L.A. Weekly |
Patrick Range McDonald |
05-02-2008 |
Housing & Development
