AltWeeklies Wire
An Open Letter to Former President George W. Bushnew
Dear Former President George W. Bush: Here's a list of all of the things I'm going to miss about you.
Tucson Weekly |
Tom Danehy |
01-22-2009 |
Commentary
Tags: humor, George W. Bush
Paul Maliszewski Examines Literary Fraudstersnew
Fakers, a collection of essays that comes mostly from Maliszewski's contributions to Bookforum, Harper's, The Paris Review and other publications, examines not just the counterfeiters themselves, but those who publish, promote and read their work.
INDY Week |
Sam Wardle |
01-22-2009 |
Nonfiction
Otis Taylor Shines New Light on an Ancient Instrumentnew
With each record, Otis Taylor has blazed a trail, or at the very least carved a trailhead, moving from self-described "trance-blues" to special blends that draw on jazz and back-mountain country, on the internal and the universal. His current release, Recapturing the Banjo, brings Taylor and most of his collaborators on the project to Duke University.
INDY Week |
Rick Cornell |
01-22-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Mass Transit Funding: A Tin Cup for Steel Railsnew
The massive economic stimulus package now being fashioned in Washington is expected to include billions of dollars for mass transit and intercity rail projects. But because of decisions made during the Bush administration, North Carolina's Triangle stands to receive little or none of it, the region's transportation leaders say.
INDY Week |
Bob Geary |
01-22-2009 |
Transportation
Tags: North Carolina, transportation
Army of Two: Au’s Dynamic Duo Does the Work of 30new
Verbs, the latest record from expansive experimental pop group Au, pulses with the unbridled passion of an exuberant mass of people, nearly 30 collaborators in all. Its manic keyboards, swooning horns, complex percussion and manifold other instruments combine with Luke Wyland’s voice and at times an ebullient choir to generate a sweeping feeling of propulsion.
New York Press |
Amre Klimchak |
01-22-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tune In to the Turned-On Dropouts, Asa Ransomnew
"I Like to walk to the center of an intersection!" wails Jacob Bills, lead singer and sole guitarist of Brooklyn-based four-piece rock noisemakers Asa Ransom, a touch of whimsy and madcap paranoia in his voice. Playing up on the extreme highend of his guitar’s neck, his bandmates musically swirling around him, Bills's description of playing amidst traffic seems pretty apt.
New York Press |
Greg Burgett |
01-22-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
David Ondaatje Creates a Clumsy and Insincere Past in His Hitchcock Remakenew
Writer-director David Ondaatje repeats the past so inexpertly that The Lodger (an update of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1926 film) is almost comically schlocky.
New York Press |
Armond White |
01-22-2009 |
Reviews
'Donkey Punch': Butt It Hurtsnew
Oliver Blackburn’s British thriller offers a unique thrill: It indulges in juvenile scares by placing them in a larger canvas of sophisticated moods, developing the scenario with remarkably shrewd structural finesse.
New York Press |
Eric Kohn |
01-22-2009 |
Reviews
The Revolution Is Here!: A Small Bookstore Preparesnew
More than just a bookstore, Manhattan's Revolution Books’ agenda for change is not to work within the system. It’s to prepare people with the tools of communism so that they’ll be ready when the system collapses.
New York Press |
Justin Richards |
01-22-2009 |
Books
'Of Time and the City' Bestows Emotional Grandeur to the Everydaynew
In a new documentary, Terence Davies connects intimate yearnings to his political and existential quandary to demonstrate the importance of movies and music as means of spiritual sustenance.
New York Press |
Armond White |
01-22-2009 |
Reviews
Doll Parts: The Making of Lissy Trullienew
Plenty of models have tried their hands at music; the architects behind Lissy Trullie have done a smooth retro take on hookladen pop. A bisexual teenybopper fantasy is being built, but there are no buyers yet.
New York Press |
Matt Harvey |
01-22-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Pols Promise Change; Many New Yorkers Wonder What the Word Really Meansnew
With seemingly insurmountable problems in Iraq, Afghanistan and Gaza, the Labor Department announcement that another 524,000 jobs were lost last month and Democrats and Republicans still struggling to find a strategy to get the economy back on track, people are left wondering: What does change really mean?
New York Press |
Allen McDuffee |
01-22-2009 |
Commentary
Tags: Barack Obama, New York
While Others Resist, Columbus Grants the Transgender Community an Identitynew
While transmen and women across the world face deadly consequences for their condition, widely accepted by clinical psychiatrists to be determined in utero, the people and laws of Columbus, Ohio reflect a uniquely open arms policy toward individuals who feel trapped in the body of the wrong gender.
The Other Paper |
Steph Greegor |
01-22-2009 |
LGBT
Tags: transgender issues, Columbus Ohio
West Bank: Welcome to the Occupationnew
With the eyes of the world focused on the carnage in the Gaza Strip, the challenges of life under occupation in the Palestinian territory of the West Bank continue.
VUE Weekly |
Scott Harris |
01-22-2009 |
War
'Der Decidermeister': An Opera on the Unlikely Rise and Ignominious Fall of George W. Bushnew
It's an opera. The curtain rises on a young George Bush in a Texas Air Guard uniform and follows the 43rd president through his business dealings, his time as governor of Texas and eight long years as president of the country.
Boise Weekly |
Bill Cope |
01-21-2009 |
Commentary
Tags: George W. Bush, satire
