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Beach Reading with a Beatnew
Including Rob Reid's Year Zero, more.
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) |
John Grooms |
07-31-2012 |
Books
Tags: Rob Reid
Oakland A's Pull Racially Insensitive Adnew
After an outcry from East Bay Latinos, the team covered up a giant billboard on I-880 that many viewed as being racist.
East Bay Express |
Steven Tavares |
07-31-2012 |
Sports
The Young and the Joblessnew
Idaho youth struggle with one of the highest unemployment rates in the nation.
Boise Weekly |
Zach Hagadone |
07-31-2012 |
Economy
Tags: Idaho Unemployment
New Orleans' Immigration Battlesnew
Why immigration court in New Orleans is stretched to the breaking point.
Gambit |
Charles Maldonado |
07-31-2012 |
Immigration
Art Truth: China Entertains Dissent More Than America
Alison Klayman’s biopic documentary is deceptive. It’s not so much about what the filmmaker perceives as an iconoclastic artist’s ability and willingness to stand up against a fascist regime.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
07-30-2012 |
Reviews
Hey You Guysnew
A new comic strip at The Coast.
The Coast, Halifax's Weekly |
Paul Hammond |
07-30-2012 |
Cartoons
Tags: Hey You Guys
Lee on Literature: Profiles in Couragenew
Was private or political gain removed from John F. Kennedy's publication of Profiles in Courage? Was courage actually demonstrated with Chief Justice John Roberts' decision in the Affordable Care Act case of 2012?
Santa Fe Reporter |
Lee Miller |
07-30-2012 |
Nonfiction
Tags: John Roberts, John Kennedy
Good intentions can’t salvage Tyler’s Gift as cliché melodramanew
There's no denying the strength and courage local actor John Lambert and son Johnny must've summoned to star in the short film Tyler's Gift.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martínez |
07-29-2012 |
Reviews
'Beasts of the Southern Wild' is both highly personal and massive in scopenew
Vegan aspiring photographers beware: Film is actually made of once-living material—mashed-up bone, flattened, and rolled up in strips.
San Antonio Current |
Erin Gleeson |
07-29-2012 |
Reviews
Los Texmaniacs: 'Texas Towns & Tex-Mex Sounds'new
When it comes to condensing everything that's great about Tex-Mex into a CD that pleases both the people and academia, nobody does it better than the Texmaniacs and the Smithsonian.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
07-29-2012 |
Reviews
Verisimilitude: Teen marvels ditch angst for musical aptitudenew
A Verisimilitude show is like sitting in on a low-key band practice. Somewhat awkward and pleasantly unrefined, each 30-minute set boasting personality and charismatic dance moves.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
07-29-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Public Enemy: 'Most of My Heroes Still Don't Appear On No Stampnew
Despite their storied place in the hip-hop pantheon, it’s been a long time since Public Enemy has been relevant.
San Antonio Current |
M. Solis |
07-29-2012 |
Reviews
An Old Quandarynew
Now that they have found the “God particle,” maybe it’s time to solve far lesser but still deserving and perplexing questions of existence.
Random Lengths News |
Lionel Rolfe |
07-29-2012 |
Commentary
Sohns: 'Ripe/Rot' EPnew
Gloomy sounds of struggle and organ washes open up this EP from Sohns, a quartet of local racket-raisers, but it jumps right into some rewarding noise on track two, the wonderfully titled "Soul Train Blues of the Broken Skull."
San Antonio Current |
Leonard Pierce |
07-29-2012 |
Reviews
'Bent' plumbs Nazi Germany's pink triangulationnew
In 1979, when Bent premiered in a London production starring Ian McKellen, homosexuality was still actively persecuted and prosecuted as a sin and crime.
San Antonio Current |
Steven G. Kellman |
07-29-2012 |
Performance
