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Metaphysical Obsessions
Bee Season mucks around in stuff that no mainstream American entertainment--save, perhaps, the last few Madonna albums--has ever explored.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
11-18-2005 |
Reviews
The Shock Wears Off
The 72-minute film is about an hour's worth of Sarah Silverman's stand-up, padded with a weak story line that enables it to pass as a movie.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
11-18-2005 |
Reviews
Cash on Delivery
Yes, kids, we have another Ray. Nearly to the letter, actually. But Joaquin Phoenix does Jaime Foxx one better by singing Johnny Cash's songs himself, a ridiculously risky move in portraying an icon whose voice was the thing. But damn if the boy doesn't pull it off.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
11-18-2005 |
Reviews
Trial and Terrornew
The Islamic Society of Boston claims a media conspiracy unfairly linked them to terrorists in an effort to halt plans for a new mosque in Roxbury.
Boston Phoenix |
Mark Jurkowitz |
11-18-2005 |
Media
Tags: media
This Is Hard-Corenew
Will the Xbox 360 revolutionize home entertainment forever? Sure — that is, until the PS3 comes out. Plus a sidebar on the ghosts of consoles past.
Boston Phoenix |
Chris Dahlen |
11-18-2005 |
Video Games
Tags: video games
Allston Crumbnew
Tattoos, misplaced angst, pretension -- you'll recognize the characters in Amanda Siska's e-comic No Soap, Radio.
Boston Phoenix |
Matthew Shaer |
11-18-2005 |
Art
Tags: visual arts
The Party's Over?new
The college party has always pitted students against disgruntled neighborhood residents and exasperated cops. But this year, in Boston, the battle is being pitched at a higher level.
Boston Phoenix |
Deirdre Fulton |
11-18-2005 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Lift Your Glassnew
J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is the most camera-ready of the series. The trouble is, it’s also overstuffed and rambling.
Boston Phoenix |
Joyce Millman |
11-18-2005 |
Reviews
Fine Linenew
The tortured and demonic part of Johnny Cash that stoked his genius often gets lost in the platitudes, the rough edges airbrushed by sentimentality. But not in James Mangold’s movie bio of the Man in Black.
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Keough |
11-18-2005 |
Reviews
Patronage in Illinois State Government Extends to Prisonsnew
The Illinois Department of Corrections hired a former college band director as an assistant warden at a southern Illinois prison, with a big boost in pay, another example of the cronyism that has federal investigators checking out the agency.
Illinois Times |
Bruce Rushton |
11-18-2005 |
Politics
A Town Hurt by Globalization Adaptsnew
Built by railroads and coal, Centralia, Ill., has been pummeled by successful waves of plant closings, leaving this small town struggling with poverty and unemployment.
Illinois Times |
Mary Rickard |
11-18-2005 |
Economy
True Britt: Bomb-Throwing Cartoonist Is a Sweetheartnew
Finding a decent full-time gig as an editorial
cartoonist has become harder, which helps explains how award-winning cartoonist Chris
Britt's career has taken him to smaller and smaller newspapers -- until he ended up at a sleepy, conservative daily in the Midwest.
Illinois Times |
Dusty Rhodes |
11-18-2005 |
Media
Tags: State, Journal-Register
A Night With HurryDatenew
Adventures in speed dating involving Green Day, Christian rockers and one really hot Rayon shirt leaves a columnist stressing when he doesn't garner the attention of every girl in the room.
Boulder Weekly |
Vince Darcangelo |
11-18-2005 |
Culture
Tags: lifestyles
A Real-Life Dollnew
The Dolls were a boozy breath of air in a bleak, almost non-existent music scene. They sired New York City's punk movement, but a band is not a movement, and sometimes the parts are greater than the sum because those parts are, quite simply, people.
Boise Weekly |
Amy Atkins |
11-18-2005 |
Reviews
Veteran Complains of 'Massive Killing' in Fallujahnew
A Colorado Springs veteran, Jeff Englehart, claims the United States used a flesh-melting substance called white phosphorus in an assault on Fallujah.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Michael de Yoanna |
11-18-2005 |
War
Tags: war & peace
