AltWeeklies Wire
A Slump So Sublimenew
Love Kraft is a good album by Super Furry Animals' standards and a great one by the standards
of most other rock bands.
Illinois Times |
Rene Spencer Saller |
11-11-2005 |
Reviews
Buffet Killer. Qu'est-Ce Que C'est?new
Las Vegas has the reputation for buffets, but Springfield, Ill., delivers, with more than a dozen restaurants that offer the chance to eat yourself to death.
Illinois Times |
Bruce Rushton |
11-11-2005 |
Food+Drink
White Power Movement Protests Casino Developmentnew
The leader of a group that opposes the creation of American Indian-run casinos says "tribalism" must be eradicated in the United States as well as Iraq and replaced with "democracy."
North Bay Bohemian |
Peter Byrne |
11-11-2005 |
Commentary
Tags: wetlands, California Stop the Casino 101, Chip Worthington, Elaine Devary Willman. Toppenish, Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria and their backer, Graton Tribe, Greg Sarris, Laguna de Santa Rosa, One Nation United, professor of Chicano Studies at Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, Ron Lopez, Station Casinos of Las Vegas, Wash. chair of a national organization Citizens for Equal Rights Alliance, whose associate member groups United Property Owners
Rec-Room Rambler
Hobart Smith knew that these sessions proved one thing: He shouldn't have waited so long to commit that banjo to tape.
Washington City Paper |
Jason Cherkis |
11-10-2005 |
Reviews
Aw, Shoot
For all its absurd complications, the plot of this film is ultimately unsurprising and not all that interesting.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
11-10-2005 |
Reviews
Outsider Drama
Turning his multiplatinum Get Rich or Die Tryin' into a movie is a logical way for 50 Cent to expand his franchise, but that doesn't guarantee he can enlarge his abilities along with it.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
11-10-2005 |
Reviews
Love in Space
Ultimately, though, this is a story about love -- with robots, reptilian monsters, and unfriendly spaceships that try to shoot the kids' home into oblivion.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
11-10-2005 |
Reviews
Twit Wit
The heroine of Jane Austen's novel is not a giggler. She is quick-witted and headstrong, capable of being charming and even playful but more known for sharply speaking her mind. Unless, that is, she's being played by Keira Knightley.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
11-10-2005 |
Reviews
Derailed
Though it may take a few years and many movies to wash the Rachel out of Aniston's hair, her turn in Derailed is a good Good Girl-ish step.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
11-10-2005 |
Reviews
Coffee Tawk With Maureen Dowdnew
The star New York Times columnist chats about Judy "Miss Run Amok" Miller, blogs and Bush's nannies.
Austin Chronicle |
Wells Dunbar |
11-10-2005 |
Media
Sean Hannity, Cyborg Hero of the People
A new comic book series posits a futuristic, liberal dystopia where the only thing between mollycoddled terrorists and the total annihilation of the American people are action heroes G. Gordon Liddy and Sean Hannity.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
11-10-2005 |
Fiction
It Died Trying
The problem with this 50 Cent biopic glamorizing the grit of the rapper's life isn't so much that the star is a bad actor as he isn't any kind of actor at all.
Columbus Alive |
Melissa Starker |
11-10-2005 |
Reviews
Precious Purple Potions: Mangosteen Juicenew
The mangosteen has much in common with a former FEMA director: a padded resume and a short list of accomplishments.
Boise Weekly |
Dr. Ed Rabin |
11-10-2005 |
Science
Anything Can Happennew
Jon Favreau and Dax Shepard discuss Zathura.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
11-10-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Jon Favreau, Zathura
Game Onnew
With his follow-up to Elf, director Jon Favreau sticks with family-friendly filmmaking, this time delivering a bang-up version of Chris Van Allsburg's bestselling children's book Zathura.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
11-10-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Jon Favreau, Zathura
