AltWeeklies Wire
Dallas' Homeless Turn To The Bridge for Food, Shelter and a New Startnew
Dallas' homeless shelter is a city-subsidized success story. From its troubled beginning, The Bridge faced fierce opposition, criticism and nagging doubts. Yet in its first year of operation, it placed more than 400 people into housing and assisted nearly 800 with finding jobs.
Dallas Observer |
Sam Merten |
08-31-2009 |
Housing & Development
'Extract' Star Jason Bateman Plays it Straightnew
After working in the film and television industry for almost three decades, Jason Bateman has finally become a leading man. He says that Extract director Mike Judge saw similarities between Arrested Development's Michael Bluth and Joel and felt that he would be believable in the role.
The Georgia Straight |
Ian Caddell |
08-31-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
'Extract' Makes it Clear That Mike Judge Needs to Make More Features
Extract can't help but pale to Judd Apatow's work that has set the bar high for this kind of comedy. Nonetheless, you get the sense that if Mike Judge made more pictures, he'd hit his stride alongside the likes of Apatow pretty quick.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
08-31-2009 |
Reviews
The Stories in 'Woman From Shanghai' Survey Mao's Prison Systemnew
Woman From Shanghai: Tales of Survival from a Chinese Labor Camp is Xianhui Yang's first book translated into English and a record of the extremities endured by Mao Zedong's prisoners at Jiabiangou.
The Georgia Straight |
David Chau |
08-31-2009 |
Nonfiction
Lisbeth Salander Makes a Blazing Return in 'The Girl Who Played With Fire'new
The late Stieg Larsson's follow-up to the sprawling, expertly plotted crime novel The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, is in most ways as gripping as the previous one.
The Georgia Straight |
Brian Lynch |
08-31-2009 |
Fiction
Education Generation's Microfinancing Funds Students Around the Globenew
While Facebook and other social-networking sites have taken off as a mostly recreational way for people to connect with each other, a Vancouver-based charity is using the technology to change people's lives.
The Georgia Straight |
Karen Pinchin |
08-31-2009 |
Education
Ang Lee's Behind-the-Scenes Woodstock Dramedy is a Charmernew
Woodstock happened 40 years ago this month, and we still can't quit it. In Taking Woodstock, director Ang Lee and screenwriter James Schamus do their lovin' best to flash us back to a time when sex wasn't fatal (although some abortions were) and people still had the audacity to keep hope alive.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Harry Kloman |
08-31-2009 |
Reviews
Tags: Taking Woodstock, Ang Lee
John Hoerr Returns to the Steel-Making McKeesport of His Youth in His First Novelnew
Unlike his first three books, Monongahela Dusk is a work of fiction. But readers will find plenty of familiar ground, from Hoerr's thoughts on how workers -- not just managers -- can make steel better; the ubiquity of gambling rackets in mill towns; and the red-baiting.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Kate Giammarise |
08-31-2009 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Are Gays Too Late to Destroy Marriage?new
Could it be that traditional marriage, like communism, is an outmoded social contract straining under the weight of its own inflexibility? In the final analysis, it may not be same-sex marriage, but a simple insistence to self-determine, that's causing brittle institutions of church and state to crack.
Seattle Weekly |
Kevin Phinney |
08-31-2009 |
LGBT
It's Only Up from Here for the Director of the New Cult Classic 'The Room'new
Greg Sestero's film is regarded as one of the great camp classics of all time, a movie considered so bad it's brilliant. Its monthly midnight showings in West Hollywood routinely sell out all five of the theater's screens simultaneously, with crowds that have turned the viewing experience into the craziest interactive movie party since The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Pasadena Weekly |
Carl Kozlowski |
08-31-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Randy Jurado Ertll Seeks to Improve Life for Fellow Salvadoran-Americansnew
Ertll, executive director of the Latino advocacy organization El Centro de Accion Social, documents the trials minority children face in America in his new book, Hope in Times of Darkness: A Salvadoran American Experience.
Pasadena Weekly |
Megan Sebestyen |
08-31-2009 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
The Director of 'It Might Get Loud' Talks Guitar Heroesnew
With an Oscar on the mantel for producing and directing An Inconvenient Truth, Davis Guggenheim decided to take a break from politics. So why not sit back, relax, and turn the stereo up to 11?
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
08-31-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Colorado's Budget Shortfall Forces Prison and Parole Reformsnew
The state's $318 million budget shortfall may succeed in accomplishing something that activists have been working to achieve for a decade -- reform in the state's criminal justice system.
Boulder Weekly |
Pamela White |
08-31-2009 |
Crime & Justice
Cartoon: The Furtive Economynew
Everyone is unemployed. Why is the economy doing well? There may be an explanation to be found in the natural world.
Tags: unemployment, economic issues
Blind Boys of Alabama Founder Clarence Fountain Returns With a Soul Albumnew
Stepping Up and Stepping Out stands as an exceptional gospel and soul release that you can spin anytime, anywhere—at a family barbecue, in your car on the way to work, at home alone.
Tucson Weekly |
Jarret Keene |
08-31-2009 |
Reviews
