AltWeeklies Wire
Is Your Coffee In Season?new
You care when your beans were roasted. How about when they were harvested?
Washington City Paper |
Tim Carman |
04-15-2010 |
Food+Drink
Tags: Coffee
Eight States Give Prisoners Access to Citizens' Private Infonew
If you're worried about identity theft, the last place you'd probably want your birth date, Social Security number, and name to wind up might be a prison. However, a new report by the Social Security Administration finds eight states, including Arkansas, in which prisoners have access to personal information through inmate work programs.
Arkansas Times |
David Koon |
04-15-2010 |
Policy Issues
Pat Metheny: Gadget Gimmick?new
Does the music produced by this amalgam of player piano and one-man-band hold up? Mostly.
Tucson Weekly |
Gene Armstrong |
04-15-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: Orchestrion, Pat Metheny
Pop Meets Soul in Sharon Jones' New Releasenew
Something a little different is definitely happening on album No. 4 by Daptone Records flagship act Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings.
Tucson Weekly |
Carl Hanni |
04-15-2010 |
Reviews
Murs and 9th Wonder: Kicking It Classicnew
Murs has been among the best MCs in hip hop for nearly a decade, impressively straddling the line between the underground and the mainstream—and he ably proves himself again on his latest collaboration with DJ and producer 9th Wonder.
Tucson Weekly |
Gene Armstrong |
04-15-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: Fornever, Murs and 9th Wonder
Mild Laughter in "Date Night'new
Date Night is passable comedy—but we expect better from Steve Carell and Tina Fey.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
04-15-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: Date Night, Shawn Levy
Everyday Heroes in 'Kick-Ass'new
Kick-Ass is so good that it should be a superhero-movie game-changer.
Tucson Weekly |
Colin Boyd |
04-15-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: Kick-Ass, Matthew Vaughn
'A Volume of Friendship': Two Great American Womennew
The friendship of Eleanor Roosevelt and Isabella Greenway offers lessons that remain relevant.
Tucson Weekly |
Tim Hull |
04-15-2010 |
Nonfiction
Darren Hoff: Country Via Rocknew
Former Weary Boy Darren Hoff is getting back into the music groove with the Hard Times.
Tucson Weekly |
Gene Armstrong |
04-15-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Gil Scott-Heron Exits the Darknessnew
Gil Scott-Heron was never able to cash in on the hyperbolic and lofty praise he received in the 70's ("The black Bob Dylan," anyone?), instead he faded into the abyss during the mid-'90s and beyond, only to occasionally resurface not onstage, but on a police blotter.
The Portland Mercury |
Ezra Ace Caraeff |
04-15-2010 |
Concerts
Tags: Gil Scott-Heron
End the Failed 'War' on Drugsnew
There's only one way to decrease border violence: the legalization of drugs.
Tucson Weekly |
Randy Serraglio |
04-15-2010 |
Commentary
95-Year-Old 'Birth of a Nation' is Still Generating Heated Hubbubnew
Hailed as a breakthrough in cinematic techniques and forever damned for its racially charged pyrotechnics, director D.W. Griffith’s Civil War spectacle changed everything about moviemaking at that point, as first-time viewers may well find out.
Syracuse New Times |
Bill DeLapp |
04-15-2010 |
Movies
Tags: D.W. Griffith, Birth of a Nation
Meet the Muffia: N.Y. Lesbians Making Their Marknew
Forget pop culture stereotypes of granola and Birkenstocks and meet the New York lesbians making their mark on the city—with not a pair of sandals in sight.
New York Press |
Jamie Peck |
04-15-2010 |
Culture
Alan Sparhawk Journeys From Low to Retributionnew
Alan Sparhawk easily ranks among indie rock's most gifted artists. He's also one of the most intriguing.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Bill Forman |
04-15-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Steff Mahan's Musical Path Produces a Soulful Serenadenew
Without resorting to artifice or clichés, the Nashville singer-songwriter has a gift for writing songs that sneak up on you and, before you know it, get you all teary-eyed.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Bill Forman |
04-15-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
