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Girl with the Dragon Tattoo remake has same badass heroinenew
Nothing in David Fincher's The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo quite lives up to the menacing, ambiguous, death-metal rapturous credit sequence that opens the director's adaptation of the best-selling Stieg Larsson novel of the same name.
Charleston City Paper |
Felicia Feaster |
12-22-2011 |
Reviews
Cruel Naturenew
Why PJ Harvey's 'Let England Shake' is the best album of 2011.
North Bay Bohemian |
Leilani Clark |
12-22-2011 |
Music
Officials Target Trafficking Loopholesnew
Indiana state officials are lobbying to fast-track legislation that would make it easier for police and prosecutors to crack down on human trafficking.
NUVO |
Franklin College Pulliam School of Journalism |
12-22-2011 |
Policy Issues
Tags: human trafficking, sex trade
How Alesana Quietly Became One of North Carolina's Biggest Bandsnew
Songs inspired by fairy tales and classic fiction veer between bludgeoning metalcore and airy pop-rock, between complex prog and sing-along simplicity -- a sound the band has dubbed "sweetcore."
Tags: Alesana
Who Polices Political Cartooning?
How can we expect editors and publishers to respect political cartoonists unless they respect themselves?
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoonew
Master director David Fincher leans on music-video stylistics in this disappointing adaptation.
Orlando Weekly |
Justin Strout |
12-22-2011 |
Reviews
The Artistnew
A delightfully speechless tribute to the golden age of film.
Orlando Weekly |
Justin Strout |
12-22-2011 |
Reviews
Where The Jobs Are ... and Aren'tnew
Where are the jobs? Everybody should move to North Dakota, where there are more jobs than people and more people than housing. But you don't have to go so far as Fargo to find work.
Jackson Free Press |
R.L. Nave |
12-22-2011 |
Economy
Books for Cooksnew
Volumes of food porn, kitchen science and gastronomic philosophy that earn their place on the shelf.
Orlando Weekly |
Jessica Bryce Young |
12-22-2011 |
Nonfiction
Charlotte Gainsbourg: Stage Whispernew
If there's a group more likely to make terrible records than the offspring of rock stars, it's actors. Charlotte Gainsbourg just so happens to fall into both categories.
San Antonio Current |
J.D. Swerzenski |
12-22-2011 |
Reviews
Damned if She Does, Damned if She Doesn'tnew
For the past few months, Mayor Jean Quan has been stuck between a rock and a hard place.
East Bay Express |
Robert Gammon |
12-22-2011 |
Politics
Tags: Jean Quan
The Roots: Undunnew
The Roots have delivered increasingly poignant and thematically focused records on life's trials. undun, their 13th album, is their most emotive, urgent, and (at less than 40 minutes) brief work.
San Antonio Current |
Adam Villela Coronado |
12-22-2011 |
Reviews
N.C. Businessman Convicted on 63 Counts of Tax Evasionnew
A jury returned a verdict of guilty on all counts against Greensboro businessman Greg Harrison in a tax evasion case that wrapped up Tuesday evening in federal court in Winston-Salem.
YES! Weekly |
Jordan Green |
12-22-2011 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: Greg Harrison, Winston-Salem
Stragglers own the center of 'Before the End'new
Dagoberto Gilb's new collection, Before the End, After the Beginning, is filled with the strivers, drifters, and dreamers who inhabit the Southwest from Los Angeles to Austin, that long road of exile that runs from broken memories towards the next hopeful, bewildering horizon.
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
12-22-2011 |
Fiction
Super Bowl as Moral Enforcernew
Apparently it takes a whole battalion of hefty guys running into each other for our state to question its stance on sex trafficking laws.
NUVO |
NUVO Editors |
12-22-2011 |
Policy Issues
