AltWeeklies Wire
Paul Simon: Songwriternew
Paul Simon is America's greatest living pop songwriter. There, I said it. I can already hear my editor shouting "What about Dylan?!" but I'm sticking to my guns on this one.
San Antonio Current |
Chuck Kerr |
11-03-2011 |
Reviews
A Short History of Pre-Blair Witch Handheld Mockumentariesnew
“Two years later, their footage was found.” That come-on, from the opening titles of The Blair Witch Project (1999), evokes as much anticipation among horror hounds as, “A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…”
San Antonio Current |
Charles Cassady Jr. |
11-03-2011 |
Movies
George Romero Meets National Geographic in The Deadnew
The Dead, which opened October 28 at the Bijou and Santikos Mayan 14, is a unique film in many respects. For starters, it is set in Burkina Faso and Ghana, instead of the usual L.A., New York, or London.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
11-03-2011 |
Movies
Margin Call elevates financial crisis drama above the blusternew
The 2008 financial collapse was so large in scale, and so unfathomable to most, that it practically begged for Hollywood’s blustery mythmaking.
San Antonio Current |
Justin Strout |
11-03-2011 |
Reviews
Johnny Depp Delivers a Tame Origin Story for a Gonzo Legendnew
The Rum Diary, a freewheeling tropical cocktail based on Hunter S. Thompson’s long-unpublished novel of the same name, bears an infectious sense of liberation.
San Antonio Current |
Justin Strout |
11-03-2011 |
Reviews
The Director of Independence Day is a Natural Fit for Elizabethan Intriguenew
Director Roland Emmerich’s new film opens and closes at a modern theater. The curtain draws and, before a polite crowd dressed in their Sunday best, a narrator sets the scene.
San Antonio Current |
Justin Strout |
11-03-2011 |
Reviews
Rapper Big Pooh's Dirty Pretty Thingsnew
With Dirty Pretty Things, Pooh doesn't party as much as he used to, but Durham vocalist Darien Brockington returns from his spiritual hiatus on the penetrating "Soul Music."
Tags: Rapper Big Pooh
The Swiss Bluegrass of North Carolina's Kruger Brothersnew
The Kruger Brothers perform progressively minded, classically conscious folk that's rooted in American tradition but flairs wildly with disparate influences.
INDY Week |
Spencer Griffith |
11-03-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Kruger Brothers
Oulipo's That Is What I Said (And I Dove Into the Water)new
On the rich and enveloping That Is What I Said, Raleigh five-piece Oulipo crams an LP's worth of ideas onto a five-song cassette. (Diggup Tapes)
Tags: That Is What I Said
Finish Linenew
The election for Tucson's mayor and City Council races is almost here
Tucson Weekly |
Jim Nintzel |
11-03-2011 |
Elections
Historic Womennew
Virginia Scharff heads to Antigone Books to talk about her impeccable Thomas Jefferson family bio
Tucson Weekly |
Margaret Regan |
11-03-2011 |
Books
Occupy Hip-Hopnew
Murs on police, politics and the culture of greed
Colorado Springs Independent |
Bill Forman |
11-03-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Post-Pedronew
David Bazan buries the Lion and re-examines his faith
Colorado Springs Independent |
Chris Parker |
11-03-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Late for the Skynew
Dawes wakes up to a bygone Laurel Canyon sound
Colorado Springs Independent |
Tom Lanham |
11-03-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
