AltWeeklies Wire
Where There's a Willnew
Author Will Clarke has a deal with a New York publisher and a Hollywood studio, and it only took him eight years to become an overnight success.
Dallas Observer |
Robert Wilonsky |
08-15-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Taxpayers Lose Big on the Timber Salvage Projectnew
Three years ago, the U.S. Forest Service declared an "economic emergency" to justify a huge post-fire timber salvage project in southern Oregon. But environmentalists now suspect a larger political charade, with taxpayers ending up the big losers.
Eugene Weekly |
Kera Abraham |
08-12-2005 |
Politics
Plane and Simple
Wes Craven's Red Eye offers a lesson in making a taut, efficient thriller.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
08-12-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Wes Craven, Red Eye
Hoodoo You Think You're Fooling?new
A top-notch cast is mostly wasted in this atmospheric but prosaic hoodoo spooker.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
08-12-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Iain Softley, The Skeleton Key
Scenes From a Former Marriagenew
Ingmar Bergman’s final film continues his exploration into mankind’s willful inability to accept the inevitable, whatever that may be.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
08-12-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Ingmar Bergman, Saraband
When the Music's Overnew
Gus Van Sant concocts an abstruse film "loosely inspired" by the end of Kurt Cobain’s life.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
08-12-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Gus Van Sant, Last Days
War's a Snoozenew
The single dullest war film of the past decade comes from the once promising director John Dahl.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
08-12-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: John Dahl, The Great Raid
It Ain't Heavy … It's Four Brothersnew
A scrappy Seventies throwback about vigilante justice in the corrupt urban jungle.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
08-12-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Four Brothers, John Singleton
Wild Seeds and the Flowers of Youthnew
Jim Jarmusch and Bill Murray meditate on middle age and the world of possibilities.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
08-12-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Broken Flowers, Jim Jarmusch
Monkee Businessnew
The Click Five aim to be big — really big, arena big, MTV big.
Boston Phoenix |
Scott Frampton |
08-12-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
All Things Englishnew
One food writer dishes on the art of the English Muffin.
Jackson Free Press |
Lynette Hanson |
08-11-2005 |
Food+Drink
Thanks Be To The Godsnew
One food writer has had a mouth-watering epiphany, and its name is scallop.
Jackson Free Press |
Lynette Hanson |
08-11-2005 |
Food+Drink
Behind the Lettersnew
Andrew Carroll traveled the world on his quest to preserve veteran voices -- including Kurt Vonnegut's.
Missoula Independent |
Azita Osanloo |
08-11-2005 |
Nonfiction
Losing the Middle Eastnew
Saudi unrest is just the latest sign of the Bush administration's propaganda failure.
Missoula Independent |
George Ochenski |
08-11-2005 |
Commentary
Peace During Wartimenew
With war raging in Iraq, Montana's Jeannette Rankin Peace Center finds itself at a turning point, battling apathy and activist fatigue as it searches for new ways to re-energize the movement.
Missoula Independent |
John S. Adams |
08-11-2005 |
Policy Issues
Tags: public policy issues
