AltWeeklies Wire
Ad Hominem: Anarchy Online Explores a New Digital Frontiernew
Remember back in the mid-'90s, before the Internet had advertisements? Boy, was it bleak to surf the web without pop-ups, blinking banners, and unshuttable Flash ads. So we’ve got news for you: video games have entered a new era of advertising – and the people behind it promise they won’t annoy you.
Boston Phoenix |
Chris Dahlen |
03-09-2005 |
Video Games
Tags: video games
Get Your Kicks: FIFA Street Pumps up the Beautiful Gamenew
What makes FIFA Street enjoyable, though, is that unlike the other Street games, the moves these players execute are very nearly possible in real life. In fact, you see them often in real soccer games (though certainly not to this degree, and never strung together in the orgy of tricks, headers, and bicycle kicks FIFA Street provides).
Boston Phoenix |
Mitch Krpata |
03-09-2005 |
Video Games
Tags: video games
Play Ball! EA Smacks MVP Baseball Out of the Parknew
MVP Baseball 2005 is better than good, and not in that Krusty-the-Clown "It’s good enough" kind of way.
Boston Phoenix |
Aaron Solomon |
03-09-2005 |
Video Games
Tags: video games
GOP Lifer Bemoans His Party's Powerlustnew
Former Minnesota Senator and lifelong Republican Dave Durenberger on the rise of the new Bush Republicans: "They talk about freedom and values, but they really don't believe in representative government."
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
G.R. Anderson Jr. |
03-09-2005 |
Politics
Home Alonenew
Hirokazu Kore-eda's latest movie is doubly unpredictable, not just in the way that its focus on survival--rather than the shuffling sound of death outside the door--marks a major about-face from his earlier films' pervasive probings of mortality and memory.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Chuck Stephens |
03-09-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Hirokazu Kore-eda, Nobody Knows
The Rise of the Boo-yaa'snew
The internet demimonde of right-wing bloggers and chat boards is the purest expression of what has happened to political "dialogue" in the past 15 years. Together the forces of radical conservatism have contrived an extreme makeover in the language of politics: They've turned it into the idiot stepchild of sports programming.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Steve Perry |
03-09-2005 |
Commentary
Introspective Etherealitynew
Mia Doi Todd deals out lush, flowery folk on her fifth album.
Orlando Weekly |
Dominic Umile |
03-09-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Manzanita, Mia Doi Todd
New Flight of Fancynew
Biirdie flies from Florida to L.A. (with a stop at Daniel Lanois' house) to get back to square one.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
03-09-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Biirdie, Morning Kills the Dark
The Thing That Should Not Benew
Metal gods Judas Priest return on the wings of an "Angel."
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
03-09-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Judas Priest, Angel of Retribution
Seeking the Elusive Johnny Deppnew
A musician is making a documentary about his attempt to present film star Johnny Depp with a special guitar created by a reformed robber along with a screenplay about the guitar-maker's life.
Westword |
Adam Cayton-Holland |
03-09-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Immigration Debate Turns Ugly at Company-Sponsored Forumnew
A panel at a forum sponsored by First Data Corp. was skewed with open-border activists, an opponent charged. She claims First Data has a vested interest in promoting illegal immigration because customers of its STAR ATM network and Western Union subsidiary include many Latinos.
Westword |
Luke Turf |
03-09-2005 |
Immigration
Radio Free Rollins
Henry Rollins explains why he doesn't like music writers, loves the Ramones and what he'd do if he got on Bill O'Reilly's show.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Jonanna Widner |
03-09-2005 |
Performance
Weapons of Mass Improvisationnew
The roadside bomb has mass appeal among insurgents and is having a massive impact.
Seattle Weekly |
Rick Anderson |
03-09-2005 |
War
Tags: war & peace
A Rap on Warnew
Gunner Palace, a new documentary, beholds U.S. soldiers in Iraq. It's TV's M*A*S*H. It's also Apocalypse Now.
Seattle Weekly |
Tim Appelo |
03-09-2005 |
Reviews
Reality Shownew
How Gunner Palace co-director Michael Tucker, a former Army reservist, lived among the troops in Uday Hussein's old digs while they played video games, strummed guitars, improvised raps, and otherwise tried to blow off steam between dangerous patrols through Baghdad.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
03-09-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
