AltWeeklies Wire
From Here to Eternitynew
With younger audiences yearning for something that's not too arty, too wimpy, too loud or too soft, Built to Spill seems right on target.
SF Weekly |
Garrett Kamps |
07-12-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Overcoming Writer's Block at the Learning Annexnew
A man who makes his living infiltrating events and writing about them is plumb out of ideas until he signs up for a writing class under the pseudonym Armando Leonardo.
Tags: memoir
Censored in LA
In an interview, political cartoonist Paul Conrad explains why his work won’t be seen by Angelenos.
Random Lengths News |
James Preston Allen |
07-12-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Paul Conrad
Support for Bush and War Fades
As the Downing Street memo reprinted here shows, the media continues to cover up the lies George W. Bush told to lead the United States into war.
Random Lengths News |
Paul Rosenberg |
07-12-2005 |
Politics
Say-It-Ain't-So Joenew
Why does Joe Morgan -- the best second baseman in history and a prominent TV broadcaster -- hate Moneyball, a book about baseball that he refuses to read?
Unnatural Historynew
A history buff tracks down stories of a real-life horse whisperer, the world's very first car accident and a public whipping.
Cleveland Scene |
Michael Gallucci |
07-12-2005 |
Nonfiction
More Swing Than Swaggernew
Another promising rock troupe rises from the ashes of the Signoffs.
Cleveland Scene |
Jason Bracelin |
07-12-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Where's Rick James, Bitch?new
A comic needs a place to feel safe, and for Comedy Central's Dave Chappelle, it's a mansion in his hometown of Yellow Springs, Ohio.
Cleveland Scene |
James Renner |
07-12-2005 |
TV
Ohio Firm Sues Manager for Breach of Loyaltynew
The president of an Ohio hydraulic-pump firm thought it odd that a South African company planned to build a similar plant nearby and then found out that his special-project manager had been feeding company information to the rival.
Cleveland Scene |
Kevin Hoffman |
07-12-2005 |
Business & Labor
Rock's Minimalist Master: The Expansive Influence of Brian Enonew
From his first conceptual recording in 1965 -- the slowed-down sound of a metal lamp stand being struck overdubbed with a friend reading a poem -- to his new Another Day on Earth, Brian Eno has had an amazing run as a composer, musician, producer, and sonic artist.
Boston Phoenix |
Ted Drozdowski |
07-12-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Hauteur Theory
Because he can’t get over himself, Tim Burton squeezes himself into Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
07-12-2005 |
Reviews
Dark Alleysnew
A documentary shows what appears to be left of the sport of bowling: a touching combination of brave striving, low comedy and back-street tragedy.
Riverfront Times |
Bill Gallo |
07-12-2005 |
Reviews
Law Aims to Shut Down Missouri's Meth Labsnew
New restrictions on sales of cold-medicine tablets that contain ingredients used to make methamphetamines may dry up mom-and-pop meth labs but could open the door to more organized crime.
Riverfront Times |
Malcolm Gay |
07-12-2005 |
Politics
Suspicions of Priest Rekindled in Unsolved Murder Casenew
Irene Garza was last seen alive 45 years ago on her way to confession. Now a priest and a former monk say that John B. Feit, who was then a priest, told them he killed her.
Phoenix New Times |
Robert Nelson |
07-12-2005 |
Crime & Justice
Fiddle Ma Nizzlenew
This duo goes where hip-hop has never gone before: the orchestra pit.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Mosi Reeves |
07-11-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
