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Method Man vs. Redman: Tale of The Tapenew
Known for sharp and hilarious contributions to albums like their 1999 collaboration Blackout!, they've also appeared in deodorant commercials, the stoner cult classic How High and even a short-lived Fox show Meth & Red. But when the two perform together, who's the real headliner?
Dallas Observer |
Ben Westhoff |
08-10-2009 |
Music
Good News -- Really -- From the Dallas City Hall Corruption Trialnew
There may be a way to look at this terribly depressing City Hall corruption trial now under way in federal court and come away feeling optimistic. And I'm not talking about watching the trial while drunk.
Dallas Observer |
Jim Schutze |
08-10-2009 |
Commentary
Texas Rangers' GM Jon Daniels Has Matured into One of Baseball's Best Brainsnew
More than anyone, Daniels deserves the credit for a remarkable Rangers season that's ahead of its time. Yes, 2010 is the season Texas earmarked for seriously competing for a title in the American League West, but in 2009 the Rangers are baseball's premature exaltation.
Dallas Observer |
Richie Whitt |
08-10-2009 |
Sports
Audrey Niffenegger Gets Ready to Plug Her Second Booknew
Niffenegger was an unfamous visual artist and maker of art books when she wrote The Time Traveler's Wife, which has sold about 2.5 million copies since 2003. Her new book, Her Fearful Symmetry, is due out September 29 from Scribner.
Chicago Reader |
Ed M. Koziarski |
08-10-2009 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Pacific Pride Foundation is One of Many California Orgs Reeling from $52M in AIDS Funding Cutsnew
With a stroke of his pen, Governor Schwarzenegger slashed $52 million from critical AIDS services funding through the state's Office of AIDS. That shoves California back to pre-1985 levels of funding, essentially the dark ages of HIV/AIDS awareness and treatment.
Santa Barbara Independent |
Penny Patterson |
08-10-2009 |
Politics
Mayor Daley: Mr. Big Spendernew
As the city faced a gaping budget deficit, the Daley administration closed out Chicago's oldest and fattest slush fund by spending every last cent in it -- and then some.
Chicago Reader |
Ben Joravsky |
08-10-2009 |
Politics
'Somers Town' Gets at the Heart of Working-Class Londonnew
Without ever trivializing his characters’ meager circumstances or resorting to the rags-to-riches fantasy of Slumdog Millionaire, Shane Meadows has made a lovely film about the ability of the imagination to offset the harshness of reality.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
08-10-2009 |
Reviews
Boulder County's Debate on GMOs Infiltrated by Biotech Industrynew
When the Boulder County Commissioners are asked to decide later this month whether six farmers leasing county agricultural land can grow genetically modified (GM) sugar beets, chances are they'll hear from the food biotechnology industry itself -- and they might not realize it.
Boulder Weekly |
Pamela White |
08-10-2009 |
Food+Drink
Ivor Davis Rereleases Definitive Tome on the Manson Family & Remembers the 1969 Murdersnew
Many have credited Davis' 1970 book Five to Die, co-authored with the late Jerry LeBlanc, as the tool that helped Vincent Bugliosi prosecute Manson, long before the legendary attorney produced his own memoirs of the trial.
Ventura County Reporter |
Paul Sisolak |
08-10-2009 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Atlanta's The Black Lips Cook Up Garage Rock Chaosnew
Atlanta, Georgia's flower punks the Black Lips have taken lysergic garage rock around the globe. The band's even been forced to flee India. Here bassist Jared Swilley discusses the group's instigation nation by nation.
Montreal Mirror |
Johnson Cummins |
08-07-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Custard’s Last Stands: Milwaukee and Frozen Dairy Treatsnew
Milwaukee has many unique commodities that unite the city under a banner of civic pride. One of the most beloved is soft, rich, creamy custard. Here's a short history of how it got to the Midwest and where it's still king.
Shepherd Express |
Sarah Blondich |
08-07-2009 |
Food+Drink
Lykke Li Offers Girlish Quirks and Contradictionsnew
Swedish dance-pop singer Lykke Li is a 23-year-old mystery ... she's capricious and full of contradictions, at once plucky and melancholy, sweet and standoffish. She delights in her eccentricities, and though she doesn't lie, per se, she usually doesn't volunteer the whole truth, either.
Shepherd Express |
Evan Rytlewski |
08-07-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Can Chris Kattan be a Bollywood Hero?new
Here's something Chris Kattan probably rarely hears in real life: "In Night at the Roxbury, you were awesome!" Such, however, is the encomium proffered by two young Indian fans in IFC's new mini-series Bollywood Hero, which finds the former SNL cast member traveling to the subcontinent to star in a saffron-colored, jasmine-scented music-and-dance extravaganza.
Boston Phoenix |
Mike Miliard |
08-07-2009 |
TV
To Serve and Protect: Dance Championship Celebrates Hip-Hopnew
Street dancers from around the globe said hip-hop hooray! at the the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas, as the 8th Annual World Hip Hop Dance Championship drew fierce but friendly competition.
Las Vegas Weekly |
Sarah Feldberg |
08-06-2009 |
Performance
Making a Compelling Film is Not Julia Child's Playnew
A Talking Heads song gives this pedestrian, snobbish film a couple minutes of genuine art - and fun. Julie & Julia doesn’t match the delights of sensual/aesthetic food movies ... it merely dramatizes Julia Child and Julie Powell's contrasting routes to media success.
New York Press |
Armond White |
08-06-2009 |
Reviews
