AltWeeklies Wire
Some of the Most Important Black Films Ever Madenew
Black film (or films dealing with black reality) didn't start with '70s blaxploitation. There was black film in the early part of the 20th century, and not just any film: Oscar Micheaux tackled race issues almost a century before the advent of Melvin Van Pebbles, Spike Lee, and John Singleton.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
02-16-2012 |
Commentary
Tags: Black History Month, Black Films
San Antonio Streetcar Plans Represent Another Developer-Fueled Heistnew
"GO BY STREETCAR" reads the big neon sign on the Streetcar Lofts in Portland's Pearl District. And in Portland, you can go by streetcar. From the busy, active downtown complete with Macy's, Nordstrom's, H&M, and host of other stores and businesses leading into the booming Pearl District with its lofts and townhouses.
San Antonio Current |
Heywood Sanders |
02-16-2012 |
Transportation
Tags: San Antonio streetcars
Greensboro Civil Rights Museum Celebrates Second Anniversary
The legacy of the Greensboro sit-ins and the first years of the museum have given the community much to commemorate and celebrate, including steady attendance, increased programming and possible new funding sources and exhibits.
YES! Weekly |
Eric Ginsburg |
02-16-2012 |
Politics
'The Third Reich' by Roberto Bolañonew
A few years after George Steiner penned an essay about Hitler's architect Albert Speer for the New Yorker and New Wave sellouts Spandau Ballet cracked the top 40 by singing songs about truth and precious metals, an obscure Chilean poet who once swore he'd never write novels began work on a beach comedy called The Third Reich that he promptly placed in a drawer.
San Antonio Current |
Roberto Ontiveros |
02-16-2012 |
Fiction
One Man’s Trash: Repurposing for Art’s Sake
The impulse to emulate Mother Nature is, at its heart, an artistic inclination. In the case of Greensboro artist Adrian Boggs, it’s his life’s work.
YES! Weekly |
Keith T. Barber |
02-16-2012 |
Art
Tags: adrian boggs, greensboro art
Sandra Cisneros' Impact on Latino literaturenew
As nearly everyone now knows, Sandra Cisneros — the oft-times indigenously attired author who founded the Macondo Writers' Workshop here in 1998 and the Alfredo Cisneros del Moral Foundation two years later — is done with San Antonio.
San Antonio Current |
Roberto Ontiveros |
02-16-2012 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Black History Month: Eleven Films to Watch in February and Beyondnew
Black History Month is a great excuse to watch some of the best music-related films there are. Those of you who haven't seen these gems will thank me forever.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
02-16-2012 |
Commentary
Tags: Black History Films
Redistricting and Retirement Opens Forsyth Legislative Races
When Gov. Bev Perdue issued a statement on Jan. 26 that she would not seek re-election, Winston-Salem Mayor Allen Joines was inundated with e-mails, text messages and phone calls from friends, colleagues and supporters.
YES! Weekly |
Keith T. Barber |
02-16-2012 |
Elections
A Many Splendored Thing
Love is beautiful.
It lets the heart sing, defies reason or intellect, makes the world go round.
Love is eternal. Love is a flame. Love is what we are all searching for, and what the lucky few of us have found.
YES! Weekly |
Brian Clarey |
02-16-2012 |
LGBT
Tags: gay couples, lesbian couples
Critic' Pick: 'The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore'new
It is a shame that the short film category at the Oscars is so underrated. Some of the best films frequently come from this group, and this year is no different.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
02-16-2012 |
Reviews
Primal Screen: The Sinner-in-Chiefnew
n 2008, American Experience presented a whitewashed portrait of President George H.W. Bush’s presidency, presumably to avoid Republican charges of liberal bias.
San Antonio Current |
Dean Robbins |
02-16-2012 |
TV
Here’s to Reynolds Price, a Great Southern Writer
A North Carolina native son, spectacular author, poet and playwright, Reynolds Price is certainly a man deserving honor and respect, especially among the theatrical and literary crowd of his home state.
YES! Weekly |
Lenise Willis |
02-16-2012 |
Performance
Tags: Reynolds Price
Move Over, Tool — Secret Secure is Herenew
Before taking over the world and the BBC's Top of the Pops, the early Beatles leaned on John Lennon to cheer them out of depressed bouts in shitty dressing rooms.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
02-16-2012 |
Reviews
The Winter of my Content
I shaved the beard off this morning.
It was a pretty good one, as far as my own history with facial hair goes: a coarse ruff that spread across the hollows of my cheeks with a reddish tinge, a disconcerting spot of gray on my chin. I let it go longer than any other beard I have ever worn, long enough that the spaces at the parentheses on either side of my mouth, the bald patches on my jawline filled in somewhat. My mustache of rusted wheat grew long enough to curl over my upper lip. And under my chin the hair darkened to a deep brown, the color of roasted coffee.
YES! Weekly |
Brian Clarey |
02-16-2012 |
Commentary
Tags: beards
'Green Shoots,' Creative Destruction
I have never had the pleasure of meeting Keith G. Debbage, professor of urban geography at UNCG, but I greatly respect anyone who thinks deeply about the intersection of economy and public policy and marshals intellect to "foster positive growth in the local economy."
YES! Weekly |
Jordan Green |
02-16-2012 |
Economy
Tags: urban geography
