AltWeeklies Wire
Payday Loan Centers Charge Whopping Interest Ratesnew
Payday loan centers have partnerships with out-of-state banks to evade state usury laws, and as a result get away with charging interest rates that can surpass an annual 700 percent.
Dallas Observer |
Paul Kix |
09-12-2005 |
Economy
Our Man in Spacenew
Steve Robinson, recently returned from the shuttle mission, explains why humans go exploring, how there’s probably life on other planets, and what his home ground of Sacramento looks like from outer space.
Sacramento News & Review |
Melinda Welsh |
09-09-2005 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
A View of New Orleans From Touro Infirmarynew
Gambit Weekly writer Katy Reckdahl describes giving birth during Katrina, and the worsening conditions in her New Orleans hospital in the aftermath.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Mike Mosedale |
09-09-2005 |
Disasters
Tags: disasters
Poetic Licensenew
The authors of The 9/11 Commission Report may have unwittingly created America's first epic.
Boston Phoenix |
Daniel Aaron, Leslie Dunton-Downer and Harvey A. Silverglate |
09-09-2005 |
Nonfiction
RomCom 101
Just Like Heaven serves as a case study for the romantic comedy formula.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
09-09-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Mark Waters, Just Like Heaven
Headbanging for Jesus!new
It's always been a dream of this reporter to get booked on a Christian talk show posing as a guy who fronts a Christian speed-metal band. Thank Jesus -- his prayers were answered.
Bush Nominee Has Union-Busting Reputationnew
Tim Timken gave President Bush $800,000. Bush gave him Germany.
Cleveland Scene |
James Renner |
09-09-2005 |
Politics
Divorce Ends in Loss of a Coffee Companynew
When she was getting divorced, Angela Caruso hired a lawyer to protect her coffee company. Instead, she claims, he helped his father take it over.
Cleveland Scene |
Rebecca Meiser |
09-09-2005 |
Business & Labor
Here Today, More Expensive Tomorrownew
Indie designer Laurie Loo's spring 2006 collection was inspired by the main character in Kate Chopin's The Awakening. Also featured are Chuck Stolarek's Wooden Mustache and Alix Winby's Safe Clothes designs.
The Village Voice |
Corina Zappia |
09-09-2005 |
Fashion
Riff Raff Kills Whitienew
Writer Riff Raff interviews two founders of Kill Whitie about their dance parties devoted to killing the whiteness inside.
The Village Voice |
Nick Sylvester |
09-09-2005 |
Concerts
Love Interruptednew
At once tremendously dense and gossamer-thin, this period romance/sci-fi hybrid from Hong Kong auteur Wong Kar-Wai is a riot of sight and sound that has an irresistible, elemental pull.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
09-09-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: 2046, Wong Kar Wai
Love, Indispensable and Inadequatenew
Pixel Revolt sounds so fantastic we'll forgive you for not noticing the lyrics immediately.
Illinois Times |
Rene Spencer Saller |
09-09-2005 |
Reviews
Growth of a Franchisenew
For all its gimmicky mayhem, Transporter 2 is an improvement over the original, completely setting aside such yawn-inducing cinematic standbys as a romantic interest and realism.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
09-09-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Louis Leterrier, Transporter 2
Sweet Revengenew
South Korean horror cultist Park Chan-wook's 2002 film is the opening freshet in his bloody cinematic revenge triptych; it’s also a finely wrought and emotionally complex film of surpassing, stylized beauty.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
09-09-2005 |
Reviews
The Sound of No Hands Clappingnew
Abandoning any pretense of respect for the Ray Bradbury source material, this film manhandles the author’s delicacies into a lumbering and bewildered mess of grade-Z sci-fi clichés.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
09-09-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: A Sound of Thunder, Peter Hyams
