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Inverse Americananew
While the fluid collective of Chicago musicians known as Pinetop Seven has never exactly produced the happiest music around, this is their darkest and most moving record to date.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
10-27-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Pinetop Seven, The Night's Bloom
Funky Stewnew
The best thing about Belize City Boil Up isn't the fact that it shines a light on a woefully underdocumented (and equally underappreciated) music scene.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
10-27-2005 |
Reviews
Rhyme & Reasonnew
Ursula Rucker insists she’s a poet, not a "spoken-word" artist.
Columbus Alive |
Nikki Davis |
10-27-2005 |
Performance
Tags: Poetry, spoken word
A Rustic Personality Returnsnew
Although it's been 35 years since Vashti Bunyan last recorded an album, it doesn't sound as if a day has passed between that first disc (Just Another Diamond Day) and the new Lookaftering.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
10-27-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Vashti Bunyan, Lookaftering
A Playful Spiritnew
This full-length debut from Swedish ambientologist Henrik Jonsson is perplexing for a number of reasons.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
10-27-2005 |
Reviews
Z-Movie
As far as this belated Zorro sequel is concerned, better never than late.
Columbus Alive |
Melissa Starker |
10-27-2005 |
Reviews
Forecast: Gloomy
Gore Verbinski and Nicolas Cage suffer a mid-film crisis.
Columbus Alive |
Melissa Starker |
10-27-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Gore Verbinski, The Weather Man
Evolution of a Man: Lifting the Hood in South Mississippinew
Old Ku Klux Klansmen, and their victims, today live together in South Mississippi. Many of them are learning how to get along with people they used to hate, as they are forced to confront their old ideas about justice.
Jackson Free Press |
Donna Ladd |
10-27-2005 |
Race & Class
Tags: race relations
Daddy Get Upnew
This son of Natchez wants justice for the 1967 Klan murder of his father.
Jackson Free Press |
Donna Ladd |
10-27-2005 |
Race & Class
Tags: race relations
Dear Meadvillenew
The Mississippi Klan killed Thomas Moore's brother Charles Eddie Moore 40 years ago, but he is still seeking justice. Now, he is trying to wake up his hometown.
Jackson Free Press |
Donna Ladd |
10-27-2005 |
Race & Class
Tags: race relations
Damned If We Don'tnew
Donna Ladd takes on a little ditty written by Shaila Dewan in The New York Times that belittled Southerners who are trying to confront their past.
Jackson Free Press |
Donna Ladd |
10-27-2005 |
Media
Tags: media
Pumpkins, the Stuff of Memoriesnew
Make some Halloween or fall food memories with pumpkin soup.
Jackson Free Press |
Lynette Hanson |
10-27-2005 |
Food+Drink
Gold Minersnew
A fictionalized account of the 1984 court case that revolutionized sexual harassment law and exposed the misogyny of Minnesota’s mining industry, this must-see drama is marked by understated, focused direction and assured performances.
Jackson Free Press |
Paul Dearing |
10-27-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Niki Caro, North Country
Wide Open Spacesnew
A New York State artist’s multimedia project links communities across the country that have sought creative ways to reuse abandoned big-box buildings.
All Haley the Chiefnew
Was a recent hurricane relief benefit orchestrated as mass media photo op for the GOP?
Jackson Free Press |
Mitch Cohen |
10-27-2005 |
Commentary
