AltWeeklies Wire
Batting Cleanupnew
Baseball legend Mike Schmidt dishes on Barry Bonds and what it'll take to save America's pastime.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Brian Hickey |
03-28-2006 |
Sports
Tags: sports & fitness
Five, Six, Seven, Skatenew
Jodie Foster's Army marches on.
Phoenix New Times |
Brendan Joel Kelley |
03-28-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Jodie Foster's Army
Justice at Last?new
Alvin Sykes may be a high school dropout, but he knows how to make senators listen and murderers sweat.
The Pitch |
C.J. Janovy |
03-28-2006 |
Crime & Justice
Erin Go, Brahnew
DJ Ed Whitty is gonna make Lauderdale safe for house again.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Jonathan Zwickel |
03-28-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: DJ Ed Whitty
Dangerous Designsnew
That temporary henna tattoo could be with you for a long, long time.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Julia Reischel |
03-28-2006 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
The Mayor of Boxvillenew
Mackie Choice is the mayor of Dallas -- or at least of Dallas' homeless community.
Dallas Observer |
Rick Kennedy |
03-28-2006 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
Sense U Been Gone
Destroyer's Rubies is not only Dan Bejar's best by far, it's also a bona fide masterpiece of opaque genius bullshit.
Washington City Paper |
Michael Little |
03-27-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Destroyer, Destroyer's Rubies
Reality Checkpoint
"Once you're doing this kind of film, you can't go the Hollywood way."
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
03-27-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Eran Riklis, The Syrian Bride
Choice Sophie
Sophie Scholl: The Final Days fails to click for two reasons, one practical and the other conceptual.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
03-27-2006 |
Reviews
The Word at War
The film successfully conjures war and peace, as well as its competing notions of Christian duty, but it's vague on any but the most generic sort of humanity.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
03-27-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Christian Carion, Joyeux Noel
Bride and Prejudice
This is a surprisingly resonant allegory about arrogance and missed opportunities for connection -- and about the dismal odds of ever reaching peace because of these roadblocks.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
03-27-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Eran Riklis, The Syrian Bride
Cracking Wiseguy
Didn't anyone ever tell Sidney Lumet the one about putting lipstick on a pig?
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
03-27-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Sidney Lumet, Find Me Guilty
Contemporary Antiquariesnew
Kiefer and Kraus are a pair of time-traveling
minstrels. Also reviewed: Liz Durret's The Mezzanine.
Illinois Times |
Rene Spencer Saller |
03-27-2006 |
Reviews
Winners and Losersnew
This fall, Illinois voters will have a choice of two gubernatorial candidates, each trying to lead a fractured party.
Illinois Times |
R.L. Nave |
03-27-2006 |
Politics
Tags: 2006elect
A Lineman For the Citynew
Mike Hickey is just one of hundreds of working
stiffs, patching tornado-ravaged Springfield, Ill. back together.
Illinois Times |
Dusty Rhodes |
03-27-2006 |
Disasters
Tags: disasters
