AltWeeklies Wire
Trashy Beach Reading -- in Convenient Movie Form
It wasn't meant to be a romantic comedy, but this overheated romance gets so overwrought it's often laugh-out-loud hilarious.
Columbus Alive |
Melissa Starker |
09-08-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: asylum, David Mackenzie
Discovering Secretsnew
Junebug amazes with its insightful portrayals of people.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
09-08-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Junebug, Phil Morrison
Bear of a Documentarynew
Timothy Treadwell's odd life among bears gets dissected memorably by Werner Herzog.
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
09-08-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Werner Herzog, Grizzly Man
English as We Use Hernew
The ways people use our ever-changing language never cease to amuse -- or frustrate.
Tucson Weekly |
Renee Downing |
09-08-2005 |
Commentary
Bear With Him
Alternative cartoonist Neil Swaab dares to go "There" and tell the wrongest jokes -- up to and including ones about molesting kids -- with the help of one very disturbed teddy bear.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
09-08-2005 |
Original Work
Running On Empty
Sure gas prices are getting astronomical, but at least we still have gas to pay a lot of money for. As Richard Heinberg vividly illustrates, that might not always be the case.
Columbus Alive |
Nikki Davis |
09-08-2005 |
Nonfiction
Viva Las Vegasnew
A nascent photographer finds the neon graveyard for signs of Sin City's past, and shares the results.
Columbus Alive |
Melissa Starker |
09-08-2005 |
Art
O.S. Chewnew
Here's a gameday game plan for finding good grub on the way to Ohio State home games.
Columbus Alive |
G.A. Benton |
09-08-2005 |
Food+Drink
Apocalypse Nownew
After one of the worst weeks in American memory, one has to wonder if it's the end of the world as we know it, or just the end of the United States as we know it?
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
09-08-2005 |
Commentary
Making a Shelter a Homenew
A week after Hurricane Katrina, evacuees in Jackson, Miss., are turning their shelter into a home.
Jackson Free Press |
Casey Parks |
09-08-2005 |
Disasters
Tags: disasters
Tails of Katrinanew
As the world struggles to rescue thousands of human flood victims, we can't forget the other evacuees: the animals of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast.
Jackson Free Press |
Knol Aust |
09-08-2005 |
Disasters
Tags: disasters
The Storm of the Centurynew
Unlike Bill O’Reilly, this writer didn’t see looters, or rapists, or murderers in New Orleans -- just people pushed to their personal limit who were surviving, people trying to feed their babies and take care of their sick.
Jackson Free Press |
Ali Greggs |
09-08-2005 |
Commentary
The Hope Sleeps Tonightnew
The horrors have been far too many for one week not just on the Gulf Coast but in Jackson, Miss., a city that has seemed without a leader since this disaster happened.
Jackson Free Press |
Donna Ladd |
09-08-2005 |
Commentary
An Imperfect Stormnew
New Orleans is gone, and the beautiful Gulf Coast of Mississippi is destroyed. The poor were left to drown and starve and fend for themselves against insurgents. In our greatest time of need, our government simply abandoned us.
Jackson Free Press |
Scott Albert Johnson |
09-08-2005 |
Commentary
A Middle East Diary: The Gaza Pulloutnew
The withdrawal proves as politically charged as the region’s history.
Boston Phoenix |
Bob Zelnick |
09-08-2005 |
International
