AltWeeklies Wire
Five Kool Bits of Trivia
Here's some fun trivia about the veteran funk act Kool & The Gang.
Charleston City Paper |
T. Ballard Lesemann |
09-20-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Kool & the Gang
Going All The Way Up
The Canadian alternative-rock band is reassembled, focused, and keen on causing a serious uproar across North America.
Charleston City Paper |
T. Ballard Lesemann |
09-20-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Hot Hot Heat, Elevator
Bluesy Enough
Jason Ricci looks more like a character out of an alternative rock magazine than a blues cat, but critics describe him as one of the top virtuoso harmonica players in the South.
Charleston City Paper |
T. Ballard Lesemann |
09-20-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Burnin' & Blowin', Jason Ricci
Kick Back and Kick It In
The Charleston-based traveling band specializes in an earthy, bluegrass-tinged mix of Americana, rock, and power-pop.
Charleston City Paper |
T. Ballard Lesemann |
09-20-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Blue Dogs, Halos & Good Buys
Seven Mary Three Dislocates
Singer/guitarist Jason Ross discusses the rock quartet's latest album and 2005 tour.
Charleston City Paper |
T. Ballard Lesemann |
09-20-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
New Orleans: Survivor Storiesnew
People trapped in the city after Katrina give detailed first-hand accounts of what they did, what they saw, and how they stayed alive.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
City Pages staff |
09-20-2005 |
Disasters
Tweak-a-Boonew
Kieran Hedben’s unwillingness to reside at any one extreme defines his fourth Four Tet album, which eschews the "folktronica" style he’s been saddled with in favor of something as hard to pin down as Hebden himself.
Boston Phoenix |
Tony Ware |
09-20-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Everything Ecstatic, Four Tet
The Rise and Fall of an Indie-Punk Labelnew
Green Day funded much of the rise of Berkeley's Lookout Records, but the band will no longer keep the troubled firm afloat.
East Bay Express |
Rob Harvilla |
09-20-2005 |
Music
Good Shotnew
The story of a Ukrainian emigre in New York's violent Little Odessa is three-quarters of a great film, weakened by its moralizing.
Dallas Observer |
Robert Wilonsky |
09-20-2005 |
Reviews
Disaster 101new
Virginia Commonwealth University recently became the nation's only major research university with a program in homeland security and emergency preparedness. Hurricane Katrina gave the students in that major a lot to think about.
Style Weekly |
Melissa Scott Sinclair |
09-19-2005 |
Policy Issues
The Big Ball of Blamenew
Who could watch the news reports of Katrina without asking who is to blame? Leaders have been busy blaming each other. But perhaps we are all to blame.
Style Weekly |
Donelson R. Forsyth |
09-19-2005 |
Commentary
Tags: Katrina, commentary
Fire Storm: Can Burning Man Evolve Creatively to Cut Pollution?new
As water engulfed New Orleans in early September, fire consumed Black Rock City, Nevada. And oil fueled both events. Is Burning Man turning a blind eye to its fossil fuel addicton?
Eugene Weekly |
Kera Abraham |
09-19-2005 |
Environment
Sickness in Jail Can Be a Death Sentencenew
An inmate at the Dallas County Jail who was diagnosed with schizophrenia hung himself; his body showed no traces of the medication he was supposed to be taking to control his disease.
Dallas Observer |
Matt Pulle |
09-19-2005 |
Crime & Justice
Submerged: An Evacuee's Journal: Just a Little While to Stay Here
Even in evacuation, New Orleans is a city divided by race. Third in a multi-part series
Association of Alternative Newsmedia |
Michael Tisserand |
09-19-2005 |
Disasters
Tags: Hurricane Katrina, Cajundome
Least Valuable Facial Hair and Other Cheap Shotsnew
The road to pop absurdity takes many detours -- especially if your tour guides are ESPN Classic's clown princes of sports comedy, Randy and Jason Sklar.
Boulder Weekly |
Vince Darcangelo |
09-19-2005 |
TV
