AltWeeklies Wire
Missionaries at End of Spitnew
Members of the violent Waodani tribe of Ecuador kill five Western missionaries, but as a result they choose to abandon their kill-or-be-killed ways.
Austin Chronicle |
Steve Davis |
01-30-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: End of the Spear, Jim Hanon
Interesting Distribution, Unspectacular Movienew
Soderbergh’s film is likely to be remembered as the adequate but unspectacular first volley in Mark Cuban and Todd Wagner’s modern experiment in vertical film integration.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
01-30-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Steven Soderbergh, Bubble
Shipping Outnew
Annapolis is a thick but hardly meaty slice of old-school Hollywood hokum.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
01-30-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Justin Lin, Annapolis
Women Speak Outnew
Penny Lane's new documentary features interviews with 12 women who've had abortions.
Metroland |
Shawn Stone |
01-27-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Penny Lane, The Abortion Diaries
Tweak Your Way to Efficiencynew
Lifehacking turns a geeky eye on the stuff of everyday existence.
Tags: media
I'm All Over Itnew
Developing an “Internet presence” in the ever-evolving digital universe.
Tags: media
Matters of Life and Deathnew
Ten years after identifying his brother as the Unabomber, David Kaczynski talks about what the experience cost him, and what it taught him about the criminal-justice system.
Metroland |
Rick Marshall |
01-27-2006 |
Crime & Justice
The Life and Death of coreweeklynew
Yesterday, coreweekly ceased publishing: Despite the work of its staff, its fate was guided by simple business calculations made by corporate executives with no passion for the paper itself.
Tags: free newspapers, faux alts
Dying in Solitary in a New York Prisonnew
The medical staff at Upstate Correctional Facility in Malone, New York knew a 19-year-old inmate had a seizure disorder; their failure to treat him resulted in his death.
Seven Days |
Ken Picard |
01-27-2006 |
Crime & Justice
The Crux of the Crustaceannew
Chomping down on David Foster Wallace’s new book of essays, Consider the Lobster.
Montreal Mirror |
Juliet Waters |
01-27-2006 |
Nonfiction
The Cook, Book and Keyboardnew
The Walkmen record a new album, remake an old one, write a novel and drop a piano.
Montreal Mirror |
Lorraine Carpenter |
01-27-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Walkmen
Sunshine and Squalornew
Haitians in Canada are furious at what they consider Canadian complicity in their homeland's misery since 2004 -- but with the Liberals out of office and Haitian elections coming, what does the future hold?
Montreal Mirror |
Patrick Lejtenyi |
01-27-2006 |
Politics
Thin Reednew
Will Abramoff's "Deep Throat" swallow God's mouthpiece?
The Texas Observer |
Andrew Wheat |
01-27-2006 |
Politics
Impeach or Indict Bush and Cheneynew
Are we, as we are so often piously assured, "a nation of laws and not of men," or is the President above the law if his party controls the House and can block impeaching him?
The Texas Observer |
Ronnie Dugger |
01-27-2006 |
Commentary
Conspicuous Little Consumersnew
Juliet Schor talks about a culture in which children do not merely consume, but also find their identity in consumption.
The Texas Observer |
Kelly Sharp |
01-27-2006 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
