AltWeeklies Wire
Fall TV Flies Without Pilotsnew
New fall series are traditionally unveiled to advertisers in May and TV critics in July, but not this year.
Boston Phoenix |
Joyce Millman |
09-11-2008 |
TV
Tags: TV, fall preview
Autumn Peeves: Fall Films Have Full Agendasnew
This is an election year, after all, and those trying to escape the issues are just going to have to stay home and watch all the campaign ads on TV.
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Keough |
09-11-2008 |
Movies
Tags: fall films
The Amazing Life and Mysterious Death of Peter Iversnew
You've probably never heard of Peter Ivers. But the Massachusetts-born, Harvard-educated free spirit was a sort of Zelig of the late-'60s-to-early-'80s pop-cultural scene. And somebody beat him to death.
Boston Phoenix |
Mike Miliard |
09-11-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Silver Jews' David Berman Wants His New Songs to be Instructivenew
It's surreal -- but not in the usual Silver Jews way -- to encounter these wholly irony-free lyrics from Berman.
INDY Week |
Randy Bickford |
09-11-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Mac McCaughan: Through with Portastatic?new
For the time being, Portastatic is McCaughan's songwriting vehicle. But there's no telling if or when he'll put that vehicle on blocks, and get himself something new to fiddle with in the garage
INDY Week |
Chris Parker |
09-11-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Pregnancy Is the New Blacknew
While celebrity stalkers delight in Hollywood babies, Beltway pundits are parsing and spinning the latest wave of ovarian escapades. Have girls really gone wild?
Boston Phoenix |
Kara Baskin |
09-11-2008 |
Commentary
McCain's War on Media Could Cost Him in Novembernew
The RNC featured McCain's formal, foolhardy declaration of war on the press -- the same press, by the way, that made him a political superstar. Now the press seems inclined to fire back.
Boston Phoenix |
Adam Reilly |
09-11-2008 |
Commentary
Boston Musician Freed After Three Months in Security Detentionnew
Percussionist Vicente Lebron intends to seek US citizenship -- now that he has discovered that the government is able and willing to ruin his life, at the drop of a hat, and for no discernible reason.
Boston Phoenix |
David S. Bernstein |
09-11-2008 |
Civil Liberties
'The World Without Us' Offers the Anti-Apocolypsenew
This was not the first time Alan Weisman had examined nature's resilience in the absence, nor near-absence, of humans.
INDY Week |
Gerry Canavan |
09-11-2008 |
Nonfiction
Romancing the Nerds at Geek Nightnew
Did I boldly go where I have never gone before, only to meet some really nice people? Absolutely. Did I make a love connection? No.
Boston Phoenix |
Neely Steinberg |
09-11-2008 |
Culture
How Conservatives are Dismantling the Federal Governmentnew
Fresh off listening to Republican presidential nominee John McCain's acceptance speech last week, it was cathartic to visit with Thomas Frank's The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule.
INDY Week |
Bob Geary |
09-11-2008 |
Nonfiction
Exploring the Now-Famous Hockey-Mom Analogynew
Unless you'd like to see what the sinew and tissue inside your shoulder socket look like while you're being called a goddamned son of a bitch assface, you assface, never come between an Alaskan hockey mom and her kids.
Boston Phoenix |
Sara Faith Alterman |
09-11-2008 |
Commentary
Ravenswood: No Wimpy Winesnew
Many of you have seen and drunk Ravenswood "Vintner's Blend" California Zinfandel. At under $10, this perennial best value is a staple at grocery stores, Costco, World Market and even specialty wine shops.
INDY Week |
Arturo Ciompi |
09-11-2008 |
Food+Drink
Meet Fatih Akin, the Most Exciting German (and Turkish) Director of His Timenew
Akin is the young director whose breakthrough film Head-On was an international hit three years ago.
INDY Week |
Godfrey Cheshire |
09-11-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Edge of Heaven, Faith Akin
'Burn After Reading': A Country for Ridiculous Mennew
Burn After Reading hearkens back to Coen classics Oh Brother Where Art Thou and The Big Lebowski, films propelled inexorably forward by bizarre characters and slashing humor.
