AltWeeklies Wire
Learning Vervenew
West isn't just the most peculiar hip-hopper rocking the radio dial right now, he’s cutting his own idiosyncratically rudderless path to pop.
Baltimore City Paper |
Bret McCabe |
08-31-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Kanye West, Late Registration
Field of Screamsnew
John Brannon's howl, equal parts primal power and melodic reach, has ripped air for nearly 25 years, first with hardcore pioneers Negative Approach, then with blues-punkers Laughing Hyenas, and now with the steamrolling quartet Easy Action.
Baltimore City Paper |
Marc Masters |
08-31-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
An Interview with a Vampirenew
LA. Judge, administrator of the Vampire Church and editor of VC Magazine, says vampirism is an often misdiagnosed affliction of severe energy deficiency.
Baltimore City Paper |
Violet Glaze |
08-31-2005 |
Science
Family Affairnew
Before it became a sociological, racial, political and cultural landmark, The Cosby Show was just good TV.
Baltimore City Paper |
Vincent Williams |
08-31-2005 |
TV
Tags: TV
Supreme Jerknew
If there's one thing John Roberts can safely be accused of, it is that he is an asshole.
Baltimore City Paper |
Brian Morton |
08-31-2005 |
Commentary
Tags: Supreme Court, John Roberts
Casualties on the Home Frontnew
Murders and suicides by military personnel might be part of the Iraq war toll.
Seattle Weekly |
Rick Anderson |
08-31-2005 |
War
Tags: war & peace
A Merger Proposal Emergesnew
Seattle Weekly's parent, Village Voice Media, has been talking to New Times.
Seattle Weekly |
Roger Downey and Chuck Taylor |
08-31-2005 |
Media
Tags: media
Back to Schoolnew
Bill Gates advocates better science education, yet the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is a major contributor to the Discovery Institute, which promotes the notion of "intelligent design."
Seattle Weekly |
Knute Berger |
08-31-2005 |
Commentary
An Interview with Fernando Meirellesnew
Appropriate to the maker of a globe-trotting conspiracy thriller with a firm foot in the Third World, Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles was thoroughly international in his outlook while discussing The Constant Gardener during a recent visit to Seattle.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
08-31-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Inmates Claim Brutal Treatment After Riot at Private Prisonnew
More than 80 inmates are filing a lawsuit against the Crowley County Correctional Facility, claiming the company let conditions deteriorate before a riot broke out last year, then brutalized men who didn't participate in the uprising.
Westword |
Alan Prendergast |
08-31-2005 |
Crime & Justice
Beyond Bordersnew
Globalization is the new villain in an effective international thriller.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
08-31-2005 |
Reviews
Drinkers Try Out the Malternativesnew
A research service pays young people to try out a major brand geared toward twenty-somethings.
Westword |
Jared Jacang Maher |
08-31-2005 |
Food+Drink
Glasgow’s Best Band Is Growing Up So Fast!new
While Sons and Daughters proclaim a fondness for that suddenly very popular first wave of post-punk, their sound is far more raw, aggressive and surly than today’s coiffed roster of ripoffs -- forget Chairs Missing, this is chairs smashing.
Dig Boston |
Michael Brodeur |
08-31-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Sons and Daughters
Brit-Poppers a Little Bit Literatenew
Idlewild's Roddy Woomble discusses that undefined point where a song becomes something more than a sequence of impulses.
Dig Boston |
Luke O'Neil |
08-31-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Idlewild
A Long Trip to Nowherenew
The City of God director's latest is a sloppy, preachy -- though visually stunning -- disappointment.
Dig Boston |
David Wildman |
08-31-2005 |
Reviews
