AltWeeklies Wire
Putting the Ego in Alter Egonew
Kool Keith doesn't mess around, proclaiming himself the number one producer in the land and the most powerful artist in hip-hop.
Dig Boston |
Chris Farone |
09-07-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destructionnew
Finally, a video game based on a comic book series manages to live up to geeks' expectations, especially being able to bitch-slap enemies with all of the fury of the Incredible Hulk.
Dig Boston |
Seth MCM. Donlin |
09-07-2005 |
Video Games
Tags: video games
Bush Blows Katrinanew
Following the media trail of Dubya's disaster: Doesn't anyone at the White House read National Geographic?
Seattle Weekly |
Chuck Taylor |
09-07-2005 |
Disasters
Tags: disasters
No Exitnew
Theme-park workers can't escape, and the director, too, seems stuck in a rut.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
09-07-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: The World, Jia Zhang-ke
Borking John Robertsnew
The battering of this guy does nothing but cost Democrats and activist groups like MoveOn.org precious credibility.
Seattle Weekly |
Geov Parrish |
09-07-2005 |
Politics
After Katrina, We Need Faith -- and Answers
An editor views hurricane damage in the parishes outside of New Orleans from a four-seat airplane.
Association of Alternative Newsmedia |
Scott Jordan |
09-06-2005 |
Disasters
The Disaster That Shouldn't Have Been
Warnings about problems at FEMA were sounded soon after Bush put a political appointee in charge of the agency.
NORTHCOM Responds Too Late to Disaster
The Pentagon's new Northern Command is supposed to be ready to spring into action to perform emergency relief work, but it wasn't until New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin lashed out that it jumped to attention.
North Bay Bohemian |
Peter Byrne |
09-06-2005 |
Disasters
Tags: Hurricane Katrina, George W. Bush
Inspiration for the Strongnew
Released in the same year as Citizen Kane (1941), this account of an English professor who falls hard for two unavailable men is actually the superior film.
Riverfront Times |
Blind Phyllis |
09-06-2005 |
Reviews
Cold as Icenew
Rappers Huggie Brown and Alphonzo Cowper deconstruct an early-'90s classic about a group of Los Angeles gangbangers who flee to St. Louis to escape the heat on them.
Riverfront Times |
Ben Westhoff |
09-06-2005 |
Music
Guild Hires Official the Paper Exposednew
Shannon Duffy, nailed in a St. Louis Post-Dispatch expose about double dipping by fire-protection district officials, has been hired as the St. Louis Newspaper Guild's business agent.
Riverfront Times |
Malcolm Gay |
09-06-2005 |
Business & Labor
Ozark Orgynew
On Labor Day weekend, thousands of tourists to Missouri enter Lake of the Ozarks' notorious Party Cove, an audacious free-for-all that has earned a reputation as a backwater Sodom and Gomorrah.
Riverfront Times |
Chad Garrison |
09-06-2005 |
Travel
Track Scarsnew
A track meet scandal that got two high school coaches punished appears to be much ado about next to nothing.
America's Nero: Bush's Impeachable Failurenew
President Bush has utterly failed to take charge and lead in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina, the worst national disaster to savage the nation, devastating the Gulf coast and threatening to turn New Orleans, a historic and soulful city, into a 21st century Pompeii. Nero at least fiddled while Rome burned. As Katrina roared, Bush vacationed.
Boston Phoenix |
Stephen Mindich and Peter Kadzis |
09-06-2005 |
Disasters
Tags: disasters
Shelter in a Stormnew
While many residents of Jackson pick up debris and haul off trees, contract for home repairs and fret over heat without air conditioning, people crowded into the Mississippi Coliseum are struggling with the harsh truth that they have probably lost everything.
Jackson Free Press |
Casey Parks |
09-05-2005 |
Disasters
Tags: disasters
