AltWeeklies Wire
A Trio of Excellent Opportunities to Lose Your Lunchnew
Favoring the artsy side, but unafraid of a little muck, is the pan-Asian horror anthology Three ... Extremes, which ties together three short works by Hong Kong-based Fruit Chan, Korea’s Chan-wook Park, and from Japan, the gleefully disturbed Takashi Miike.
Dig Boston |
Chris Braiotta |
10-26-2005 |
Reviews
Singing Povertynew
Ben Schyan and Robert Matthews’ debut doesn’t try to hide that it’s a no-budget production.
Baltimore City Paper |
Bret McCabe |
10-26-2005 |
Reviews
Partly Funny, With a 65 Percent Chance of Redemptionnew
Director Gore Verbinski tells a tale of yet another loner in the long line of hapless American-middle-class movie characters.
Dig Boston |
David Wildman |
10-26-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Gore Verbinski, The Weather Man
Monsters Inknew
Bennett Miller’s movie plumbs the personal toll that Truman Capote’s book In Cold Blood took on its subjects and its author.
Baltimore City Paper |
Violet Glaze |
10-26-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Capote, Bennett Miller
It's Cold (and Flu) Season Againnew
This whole Cold and Flu season could be the Worst Cold and Flu Season Ever, man, right after the Most Hurricanes Ever. We're doomed.
Baltimore City Paper |
Joe MacLeod |
10-26-2005 |
Comedy
You're Screwednew
If there’s one thing the Bush administration has always been good at, it’s screwing the poor.
Baltimore City Paper |
Brian Morton |
10-26-2005 |
Commentary
Hot Stuff, Coming Through!new
Boston's Post-Apocalyptic Halloween Iron Pour will feature lots of fire, a courtyard full of art students, a Japanese prog-freak band and 100 pound pots of 3000 degree molten iron.
Dig Boston |
Michael Brodeur |
10-26-2005 |
Concerts
A New Paper Chainnew
The Nashville Scene's been bought out, and the new boss doesn't take any crap off anybody.
Nashville Scene |
Liz Garrigan |
10-26-2005 |
Media
Tags: Jim Larkin, Mike Lacey
D&B VIP gets back on the tracksnew
Dominic Angas is one of the most respected and longest-contributing producers in drum & bass. Here, he explains why he dropped his long-time electronic partner.
Dig Boston |
Andy Barrett |
10-26-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Dom & Roland
Go, Go!Team, Go!new
The Go!Team explains why gibberish is cool, and just how they follow no trends and all trends.
Dig Boston |
Luke O'Neil |
10-26-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
We Love Katamarinew
Want a game that has as much appeal to the under-10 crowd as it does to your too-cool-for-school hipster friends? You’re in luck, then, for the good folks at Namco have given us We Love Katamari, which may be the best game ever.
Dig Boston |
Adam Diamond |
10-26-2005 |
Video Games
Tags: video games
Smurf Filmsnew
If UNICEF can use the Smurfs to warn people about war, there’s no reason you can’t use other cartoons to warn them about other evils.
Dig Boston |
Chris Haire |
10-26-2005 |
Media
Tags: media
Geeks Gone Wild!new
Live-action role-playing, or LARPing, is essentially dress-up and make-believe for adults. Does this hobby blur a critical line between fantasy and reality? Or is it just plain dorky?
Metro Times |
Sarah Klein |
10-26-2005 |
Culture
'Painting With a Broad Brush'
An Oklahoma judge attacked the credibility and experience of federal judges. Three requests by Oklahoma Gazette to copy or review a videotape made of the hearing were denied.
Oklahoma Gazette |
Scott Cooper |
10-26-2005 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
2,000 Troops Dead -- and No End in Sightnew
The number of American service members who died in the Iraq war is more than five times larger than the number of dead in the Persian Gulf War. The names of those lost are listed here.
The Village Voice |
Jarrett Murphy |
10-26-2005 |
War
