AltWeeklies Wire
A Haitian-American Candidate Runs for Congressnew
Dufirstson Neree, a 31-year-old Haitian immigrant, wants to represent a part of Miami that has the largest concentration of Haitian-born voters of any congressional district in the nation.
Miami New Times |
Josh Schonwald |
12-20-2005 |
Politics
The Plot Thickens
It's a shame the film's postreunification milieu is unlikely to resonate as much with Americans. Zucker never gets too zany or too maudlin, and its petty characters could serve as stand-ins for just about anyone.
Washington City Paper |
Jason Powell |
12-19-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Dani Levy, Go for Zucker
Stalin the Family
A Meet the Parents retread with the kind of giant, kooky-but-loving brood without which holiday comedies wouldn't exist, The Family Stone will have you slapping your forehead, not your knee.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
12-19-2005 |
Reviews
Beyond Xanadu
The Keeper is earnest and likable, if a bit too stolid for anyone without a pre-existing interest in the subject.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
12-19-2005 |
Reviews
Pronounced Dead
Like The Last Samurai, Memoirs of a Geisha is a well-researched, if misguided, tribute to Japan's bad old days of patriarchy and strict social hierarchy.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
12-19-2005 |
Reviews
Where the Queer and the Antelope Play
A love story in which you can't feel the love might sound like a dismal failure, but in Brokeback Mountain's case, it ain't.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
12-19-2005 |
Reviews
Cheeky Monkey
How did Merian C. Cooper and Edgar Wallace's relatively simple story get stretched to such epic proportions? Well, the movie is first a smaller-scale Titanic, then a ballsier Jurassic Park -- and that's before the monkey business even gets going.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
12-19-2005 |
Reviews
Pirates of Intelligent Designnew
Bobby Henderson and his Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster theorize that the universe was created by a celestial clump of pasta. Go stick that in your science books.
Boulder Weekly |
Vince Darcangelo |
12-19-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
All He Wants for Xmas Is to Be on TVnew
A critic looks at three television shows absurd enough to warrant that he make a guest appearance on them in 2006.
Boulder Weekly |
Vince Darcangelo |
12-19-2005 |
TV
Tags: TV
Christmas-List Albumsnew
Tapes compiled by rock 'n' roll keyboard legend Al Kooper reveal the darker side of stars like Barry White, Buddy Rich, Casey Kasem and Orson Welles, and now you can find the best of the weirdness online.
Houston Press |
John Nova Lomax |
12-19-2005 |
Music
A Vietnamese 'Village' Works to Fit Into Houstonnew
Catholic priest John Chinh Tran re-created Vietnam's Thai Xuan Village in Houston with an iron hand. These days his control is slipping away.
Houston Press |
Josh Harkinson |
12-19-2005 |
Immigration
Knitters Become Crafty Graffiti Artistsnew
Under the noms d'artiste AKrylik and PolyCotN, two moms are tagging street signs, car antennae, doorknobs and park benches with their unfinished knitting projects.
Houston Press |
Keith Plocek |
12-19-2005 |
Art
Bigfoot Tells All in Me Write Booknew
Given that Bigfoot was always a creature more animal than human, expectations for his memoir weren’t high. Fortunately, Graham Roumieu’s brilliantly funny illustrations do much to fill in the inevitable gaps.
Montreal Mirror |
Juliet Waters |
12-19-2005 |
Fiction
The Truman Shownew
Philip Seymour Hoffman brings the author of In Cold Blood to life in Capote, having worked his way into the character from "the outside in."
Montreal Mirror |
Matthew Hays |
12-19-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Saving Californianew
Lenny Goldberg of the California Tax Reform Association has a plan to fix the state's economic woes.
North Bay Bohemian |
Peter Byrne |
12-17-2005 |
Commentary
