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Former San Diego CityBeat Writer Needs a Bone-Marrow Transplantnew
Kia Momtazi is wise beyond her years—as they say, an old soul. She is beautiful, warm, funny, kind, creative, insightful and smart. She also happens to be fighting for her life.
San Diego CityBeat |
Aaryn Belfer |
10-12-2011 |
Health
Burgers, Beer, and Ping-Pongnew
A hot New York trend has arrived in the Lowcountry -- the ping-pong bar.
Charleston City Paper |
Eric Doksa |
10-12-2011 |
Food+Drink
Tags: Hom, charleston ping-pong bar
Insane Clown Posse's Fan Reflectionnew
"We don't give a fuck if people understand it or not," says Violent J, or Joseph Bruce, from a California tour stop.
INDY Week |
Chris Parker |
10-12-2011 |
Commentary
Tags: Insane Clown Posse, Juggalos
Trespass Holds Audiences for Ransomnew
Nicolas Cage doesn't want his movies playing in his house. We could only be so lucky.
Boise Weekly |
George Prentice |
10-12-2011 |
Reviews
Tags: Trespass
Poor, Minorities Magnets for Industrial 'Sacrifice Zones'new
Grappling with how to own up to the toxic legacy of uranium mining and nuclear weapons processing in the United States, government officials coined the cold term "sacrifice zones" in the 1980s.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
10-12-2011 |
Nonfiction
Tags: steve lerner
Different Jobsnew
People rending their garments in such a way for the death of a celebrity seem all the more distasteful when real heroes die; and last week, hours before Steve Jobs passed, a real hero did die -- Fred Shuttlesworth.
INDY Week |
Vernal Coleman |
10-12-2011 |
Commentary
Tags: Steve Jobs, Fred Shuttlesworth
Sonic Youth: Hits are for Squaresnew
Not everyone has the benefit of a cool older brother/sister to introduce them to influential, innovative bands like Sonic Youth.
San Antonio Current |
Chuck Kerr |
10-12-2011 |
Reviews
Misfits: The Devil's Rainnew
It has been nearly a decade since the Misfits released a full-length anything, and decades still since legions of fiends declared they were "Teenagers From Mars and we don't care."
San Antonio Current |
Sonya Harvey |
10-12-2011 |
Reviews
Lydia: Paint it Goldennew
Lydia's candid melodies paint a glittering picture of a dream-like sequence often seen in films.
San Antonio Current |
Collette Orquiz |
10-12-2011 |
Reviews
Mozart's Sister acknowledges complexity even as it invents factsnew
Filmmaker Rene Feret doesn't massage what we know about how Nannerl's talents were allowed to wither, purely on account of her gender, in order to create a comforting narrative.
Eat Me: An Invitation to a Zombienew
Local filmmaker Daniel Maldonado, 31, says that while he’s not a zombie aficionado, he has seen enough ’80s zombie cult classics and played enough Resident Evil to know in advance he could handle directing the walking dead in his first feature The Killing Strain, an independent horror film shot in south San Antonio in 2009.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martinez |
10-12-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Delivering the Malenew
I usually wince when a network sitcom panders to the 18-49 male demographic (see this year’s Last Man Standing, last year’s Traffic Lights). But the new Man Up hits this demographic where it hurts. It’s a brilliant satire of male pretension and pride, so painfully on target that it might drive away the very viewers it seeks to attract.
San Antonio Current |
Dean Robbins |
10-12-2011 |
TV
Film Review: The Ides of Marchnew
As a writer-director, George Clooney pushes all the hot buttons. In Good Night, and Good Luck it was the media; in The Ides of March it’s politics.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Gallucci |
10-12-2011 |
Reviews
Film Review: Sennanew
You might already be burned out on movies about automobiles, what with Transformers 3, Cars 2, and Drive, among others. Forget all those. There is only one truly essential movie this year about the relationship between man and machine, and that's Senna.
San Antonio Current |
Greg Morrison |
10-12-2011 |
Reviews
Film review: Real Steelnew
Its metaphors are shallow and its plot predictable, but Real Steel is still fun in a fighting-robots-movie kinda way.
San Antonio Current |
Ben Gifford |
10-12-2011 |
Reviews
