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Ohioans, Don't Get Fooled Again; Support Issues 2-5new

Ohio's Republican establishment is pulling out all the stops to defeat five election-reform issues on the ballot in November and preserve its domination of state government.

The Athens NEWS | Terry Smith | 10-01-2005 | Commentary

Tags: Ohio, Ken Blackwell, election reform, redistricting, Ohio elections, vote

Katrina Aftermath Radio: A Brief, Dysfunctional Lifenew

Attempts to set up a low-power FM station for Astrodome residents was killed by bureaucracy.

Austin Chronicle | Wells Dunbar | 09-30-2005 | Disasters

Tags: FEMA, hurrican katrina, LPFM radio

Go Figurenew

A filmed adaptation of a four-character play about math wizardry seems doomed to wallow in esoterica, but Proof is at its strongest the closer it veers toward the multiplication tables.

Orlando Weekly | Steve Schneider | 09-30-2005 | Reviews

Tags: Proof, John Madden, James D. Stern

Gruel Intentionsnew

Well, he's got the dinginess down. In Roman Polanski's interpretation of Dickens' Oliver Twist, the London streets see hungry, unwashed masses taunted by nearby reminders of unattainable solvency.

Orlando Weekly | Steve Schneider | 09-30-2005 | Reviews

Tags: Oliver Twist, Roman Polanski

Tales of a Quitternew

A book-long narrative rather than the usual series of semi-epiphanic moments, The Quitter is the most substantive and rewarding look yet at the strangely compelling life of the Lake Erie everyman.

Boston Phoenix | Mike Miliard | 09-30-2005 | Author Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Harvey Pekar, The Quitter, AMerican, Splendor

Review of Film: The Greatest Game Ever Playednew

The prospect of yet another uplifting, history-based Disney sports drama sounds like enough to make a grown man pull his head off his shoulders, but this Bill Paxton-directed golfing memoir is surprisingly easy to sit through.

Orlando Weekly | Steve Schneider | 09-30-2005 | Reviews

Tags: Bill Paxton, The Greatest Game Ever Played

Saigon but Not Forgottennew

It's almost impossible to review a film like Winter Soldier in the traditional sense of the verb.

Orlando Weekly | Steve Schneider | 09-30-2005 | Reviews

Tags: Winter Soldier, Winterfilm Collective

Bob Morris: Dead but Not Donenew

When people say they don't give a "flying fuck," typically it's just an expression. But it's explained plausibly as a water-slide activity in Jamaica Me Dead, the second installment of Bob Morris's Caribbean mystery trilogy.

Orlando Weekly | Lindy T. Shepherd | 09-30-2005 | Fiction

Tags: Jamaica Me Dead, Lindy T. Shepherd

Review of Work: Portrait-Robotnew

There are moments on Portrait-Robot – near the end of "Ma Boîte à Musique," for example – that find French electronicist Bertrand Burgalat locking into a beat-centric Euro-funk that could have been nicked from Fatboy Slim or Beck.

Orlando Weekly | Jason Ferguson | 09-30-2005 | Reviews

Tags: Bertrand Burgalat, Portrait-Robot

Lone Star Shelternew

Four photographers document the lives of hurricane evacuees sheltered in Houston, Austin and Dallas.

The Texas Observer | Steve Satterwhite, Tom Kilty, Alan Pogue and Vic Hinterlang | 09-30-2005 | Disasters

Tags: hurricane, Katrina

It Takes Guts...new

A food critic springs Tripes Les Halles on dinner guests.

Colorado Springs Independent | Aaron Retka | 09-30-2005 | Food+Drink

The Nursing Home Crisis to Comenew

After Texas capped the amount medical malpractice victims could win in court, the state’s oversight of nursing homes grew increasingly lax -- an outcome that might be linked to the nursing homes' role in financing campaigns.

The Texas Observer | David Mann | 09-30-2005 | Politics

Tags: Texas, campaign financing, Alliance for Quality Nursing Home Care. U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, Noe Martinez Sr., state’s largest business group, Texans for a Republican Majority (usually referred to as TRMPAC), the Texas Association of Business (TAB)