AltWeeklies Wire
From Ugly Duckling to Black Swannew
Natalie Portman's turn--and pirouettes--as a damaged dancer earned her a Best Actress Oscar.
Boise Weekly |
Jordan Wilson |
03-30-2011 |
Reviews
Selling Good Grape to the Wine-Drinking Youth of Americanew
If you've ever stood glassy-eyed in the wine aisle, rendered immobile by too many options, your luck is about to change.
Charleston City Paper |
Signe Pike |
03-30-2011 |
Food+Drink
Oakland Landlords Put on Noticenew
If a $1.7 million tenants' victory is upheld, it will send a strong message to other property owners to obey the city's rent control law.
East Bay Express |
John C. Osborn |
03-30-2011 |
Housing & Development
Backlash to a Rapenew
It’s been 23 years since the nation’s attention fell on San Diego and the rape of Linda Gaitan. The events unfolding in Cleveland, Texas are much the same.
The Texas Observer |
Michelle Garcia |
03-30-2011 |
The War on Women
Tags: Rape, Linda Gaitan
I Saw the Devil Adds a Layer Beneath the Bloodnew
In the first minute of the film, the audience is thrust headfirst into a snowy landscape as a discomforting stranger offers a stranded motorist a ride.
Charleston City Paper |
Kevin Young |
03-30-2011 |
Reviews
Tags: I Saw the Devil, Akmareul Boattda
RuPaul's Race to Drag America Downnew
RuPaul forces contestants to "lip-sync for your life" to crappy club songs--it's quite the grueling display of artificial effort.
Boise Weekly |
Damon Hunzeker |
03-30-2011 |
TV
Richmond's Shooting Starsnew
Richmond basketball finds itself in San Antonio.
Style Weekly |
Brandon Reynolds |
03-29-2011 |
Sports
GOP Should Stop Picking "Winners," Pick Rand Paulnew
Better the ideologue you agree with than the one who is "more electable."
Charleston City Paper |
Greg Hambrick |
03-29-2011 |
Elections
Food Truck Fevernew
Orlando's mobile food scene sheds its training wheels.
Orlando Weekly |
Katie Westfall |
03-29-2011 |
Food+Drink
Tags: Food Trucks
It Happened on the Way to Warnew
Rye Barcott's book about his work with the Kibera slum in Kenya.
INDY Week |
Adam Sobsey |
03-29-2011 |
Nonfiction
Mess in the Marignynew
Tensions between the NOPD's 5th District and the A.R.K. in the Faubourg Marigny are rising.
Gambit |
Alex Woodward |
03-29-2011 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: Faubourg Marigny, NOPD
Interview: Actor Michael Peña Talks ‘Lincoln Lawyer’new
Taking about a year and a half off from making movies after his first child was born at the end of 2008, actor and Chicago native Michael Peña, 35, is getting back into the swing of things.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martinez |
03-29-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Lincoln Lawyer, Michael Peña
"Battle: Los Angeles" Review Causes a Commenting Stirnew
Why are hostile aliens from outer space so attracted to Los Angeles? They blew the fuck out of California in last year’s Skyline, and in Battle: Los Angeles we really don’t even get a reason for their invasion (it may have something to do with water).
San Antonio Current |
Michael Gallucci |
03-29-2011 |
Reviews
How Much is Your Daughter Worth?new
Hawaii is becoming an international hub for sex-tourism. The defenders of the current system call it prostitution and a victimless crime. In reality it is debt bondage, a modern form of slavery.
Honolulu Weekly |
Shantel Grace |
03-29-2011 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: Prostitution, Sex-Tourism
John Muir and the Walking Curenew
The scientist, revisited.
East Bay Express |
DeWitt Cheng |
03-29-2011 |
Art
Tags: John Muir, Bedford Art Gallery
