AltWeeklies Wire
Author of 'Ten-Cent Plague' Explores Outlaw Comicsnew
The '40s and '50s were a time of political persecution for the authors of early alternative comic books -- of congressional hearings, of blacklists and of book burnings only dimly remembered by history. But it's a time worth remembering, if not for its art, then for its lessons, says David Hajdu.
Style Weekly |
Chris Dovi |
09-17-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Bush's Last Hurrah Will Be to Attack Pakistannew
The good news is that George W. Bush is not going to invade Iran before he leaves office. The bad news is that he is attacking Pakistan instead.
The Georgia Straight |
Gwynne Dyer |
09-16-2008 |
Commentary
'Burn After Reading': Coenfederacy of Duncesnew
In any case, Burn After Reading, the new comedy from Joel and Ethan Coen, is well-titled. It's fair to call it a grim farce about vanity in an age of constant surveillance, but that might imply more ambition than does the movie itself.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Jonathan Kiefer |
09-16-2008 |
Reviews
Port O'Brien Stirs Up the Indie Kidsnew
Port O'Brien has also earned the obligatory critical comparisons to Arcade Fire — a single Yahoo! search for both bands yields 65,000 Web pages — although there's little similarity other than "I Woke Up Today" and Arcade Fire's "Wake Up" both containing wordless vocal intros.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Bill Forman |
09-16-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Bypassing Pit Beef For Pit Bisonnew
This past July Fourth, I think I may have blazed a trail of sorts: I made me some pit bison.
Baltimore City Paper |
Henry Hong |
09-16-2008 |
Food+Drink
Why Political Cartoons Matter
Editorial cartoons have never been better, more relevant or more popular. But daily newspapers are phasing them out -- because editors don't understand them.
'Burn After Reading' Has No Story Linenew
That's the joke of the film: There is no point.
Baltimore City Paper |
Cole Haddon |
09-16-2008 |
Reviews
'The Women' Remake is Disjointednew
Director Diane English's remake of George Cukor's 1939 adaptation of Clare Boothe Luce's satiric play keeps the men almost literally out of the picture.
Baltimore City Paper |
Wendy Ward |
09-16-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Diane English, The Women
Teeth Mountain Doesn't Re-invent the Drum Circlenew
But its members do it with a sincere appreciation for the woollier end of late-'60s radicalism.
Baltimore City Paper |
Bret McCabe |
09-16-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Teeth Mountain
Ben Parris Gets a Solid Minimal Techno Workoutnew
Parris keeps a fairly low profile around Baltimore. Like just about everybody else of moderate success in the techno community, he does a fair amount of time in Berlin, which is to techno as Brooklyn is to avant-rock.
Baltimore City Paper |
Michael Byrne |
09-16-2008 |
Reviews
Kimya Dawson Winds a Strange Path to 'Alphabutt'new
Who'd have imagined--back when she and fellow Moldy Peach Adam Green were waxing anti-folk rhapsodic about downloading porn with Davo, about Duran Duran boyfriends, about what to stick their dicks in--that Kimya Dawson could ever be closer than an NFL football field to household name status?
Baltimore City Paper |
Raymond Cummings |
09-16-2008 |
Reviews
'Lulu Eightball' Creator Sits Down With Instructional Tomes On How to Bring Comics to Lifenew
We'll be looking at three works--Will Eisner's instructional trilogy Comics and Sequential Art, Graphic Storytelling and Visual Narrative, and Expressive Anatomy for Comics and Narrative; and Lynda Barry's What It Is, published recently, and Scott McCloud's 2006 Making Comics--that explore making comics.
Baltimore City Paper |
Emily Flake |
09-16-2008 |
Original Work
Getting to the Roots of the Sisters 3's Mutant Folk Musicnew
Three bodies, three sensibilities. But when it comes to the Sisters 3, they're of one mind.
Philadelphia City Paper |
M.J. Fine |
09-16-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Star Spangled, The Sisters 3
New Mexico Tries to Figure Out How to Get Medical Cannabis to Patientsnew
The Compassionate Use Act, passed in 2007, calls for the state's Department of Health to build regulations that would govern the production and distribution system for medical marijuana. But it doesn't outline how -- and that's become the real sticking point.
Weekly Alibi |
Marisa Demarco |
09-16-2008 |
Science
Sarah Palin Can Run on Her Record, Proudlynew
There is no evidence her family has ever stood in the way of her work -- or vice versa. If she were a man, isn't that what we'd be talking about?
Phoenix New Times |
Sarah Fenske |
09-16-2008 |
Commentary
