AltWeeklies Wire
Meet Ron White, the Memory Champ You'll Never Forgetnew
Ron White is a college dropout, a Navy veteran and a businessman, and he's out to prove that memory, and most anything, really, comes down to discipline and practice and not innate talent. He wants to show that he's not unremarkable and that no one else has to be, either.
Dallas Observer |
Megan Feldman |
05-19-2009 |
Performance
Tags: competitive memory, Ron White
Year After Year, Maryland Deathfest Only Gets Strongernew
The extremes of metal music have filled every room of Baltimore nightclub Sonar with bands and fans over a long weekend in May for the past several years as part of Maryland Deathfest.
Baltimore City Paper |
Michael Byrne |
05-19-2009 |
Music
Filmmaker Looks to Connect with Witnesses to RFK's Funeral Trainnew
In June 1968, a train bearing the body of Robert F. Kennedy traveled from New York to Washington. Now Jon Blair is making a documentary about the myriad people who spontaneously lined the tracks along its route.
Baltimore City Paper |
Bret McCabe |
05-19-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
R&B Flower Child Lynee Michelle Spreads a Message of Peace, Love, and Happinessnew
Lynee Michelle makes a living recording love songs and sexy dance tracks, but has built her career from within Baltimore's male-dominated hip-hop scene.
Baltimore City Paper |
Al Shipley |
05-19-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
A Meditation on Keeping Great Finds to Oneselfnew
Any object is marred by seeing. To reveal it means to erase it. Whatever people find there will not be what it was that inspired their coming.
New Haven Advocate |
Stephen Vincent Kobasa |
05-19-2009 |
Art
Tags: commentary, visual art
Colm Toibin's New Novel Is Quiet and Thankfully Unsentimentalnew
Brooklyn is a quiet, charming novel written with a masterful hand about a girl struggling to understand her new emerging self in a new postwar world.
New Haven Advocate |
John Stoehr |
05-19-2009 |
Fiction
Ned Lamont Is Running for Connecticut Governornew
Lamont may not be technically running for governor, in the stage-managed press conference sort of way. That day may never come. He may bail on the idea before spending a dime on party balloons or polling. But he's doing everything that a candidate running for office does at this stage of the game.
New Haven Advocate |
Andy Bromage |
05-19-2009 |
Politics
Tags: Ned Lamont, Connecticut
'Quixote' and a Cast of Pro and Homeless Actors Come to a Philadelphia Churchnew
People from disparate social, financial, racial and religious backgrounds gather together at Philly's Broad Street Ministry and examine spiritual and social questions as one. And now, a bunch of them are acting, singing and dancing in a New York theater renegade's site-specific extravaganza, Quixote.
Philadelphia City Paper |
A.D. Amorosi |
05-19-2009 |
Theater
To Be a Kinetic Sculpture Derby Star, You Must Sacrificenew
Since its maiden derby in 2007, the Kensington Kinetic Sculpture Derby has become a sort of hallmark of the creative community in Philadelphia's Kensington, Fishtown and Port Richmond neighborhoods.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Andrew Thompson |
05-19-2009 |
Recreation
Sine Wave Symphonist Charles Cohen Never Plays It Straightnew
Whatever the format, since 1969, Cohen's crafted an essential -- if not the essential -- spot for himself within Philadelphia's electronic avant-garde.
Philadelphia City Paper |
A.D. Amorosi |
05-19-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Charles Cohen, electronic music
Spectacle Trumps Satire in 'Terminator Salvation'
More of a 21st century Mad Max than a continuation of the Terminator franchise that seasoned audiences are familiar with, director McG's post apocalyptic man versus industrial-robot-military-complex lurches through fits and starts of spectacle that almost add up to a story.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
05-18-2009 |
Reviews
Did You Know? May Is National Masturbation Monthnew
If you didn't know May was National Masturbation Month, you're not alone. The annual observance doesn't have a hugely high profile. It started in 1995 in -- where else? -- San Francisco, as a response to the forced resignation of U.S. Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Liz Spikol |
05-18-2009 |
Sex
Latin Jazz Vocalist Venissa Santi Gets a Second Debutnew
When Venissa Santi's self-released debut album fell into the hands of the legendary Dick LaPalm, her hard work and dedication paid off. Sunnyside Records picked up the album and is rereleasing it, and Santi doesn't mind promoting it twice at all.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Katherine Silkaitis |
05-18-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
The Tramp Stamp Storynew
The so-called tramp stamp is considered alternately sexy or vulgar, depending on who's looking at it. Why the special term? And why the fuss?
Philadelphia Weekly |
Amy Saltzman |
05-18-2009 |
Fashion
The World's War, One Man's Battlenew
In Masaki Kobayashi's ten-hour World War II epic, the first casualty is compassion.
Chicago Reader |
J.R. Jones |
05-18-2009 |
Reviews
