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Burning Down the House: Old School Goes New School in Pasadena
“Animal House” for the apocalypse generation, “Project X” is a hip celebration of drugs, sex, alcohol, and music for their cumulative power to incite violence, disgust, and ultimately, respect.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
02-28-2012 |
Reviews
Original Mobsternew
Andrew Samtoy's simple plan has sparked an international cash-mob sensation.
Cleveland Scene |
Maude L. Campbell |
02-27-2012 |
Features
Prepare for Lift-Offnew
Futurebirds follow up their Grace Potter tour with a solo flight.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Chris Parker |
02-27-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Girl in a Coma's documentary 'Jammin'' shows their early yearsnew
Since 2006's Jammin', a TV documentary of the early years of Girl in a Coma, the band's circumstances have changed a bit.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
02-27-2012 |
Reviews
Tags: Jammin', Jim Mendiola
Cloud Nothings aren't "the new" anythingnew
Comparisons are fucking stupid. The immediate impulse when listening to Cloud Nothings' new post-hardcore (whatever that means) opus (whatever that means) Attack on Memory is to compare young frontman Dylan Baldi to another soft-spoken-though-undeniably-charismatic 20-something songwriter who channeled his love of angry hardcore bands (Wipers, Hüsker Dü, Black Flag, etc.) into inexplicably populist rage, but this isn't then.
San Antonio Current |
Jeremy Martin |
02-27-2012 |
Reviews
Ginobli tweets about Jeremy Lin on Valentine's Daynew
When Manu Ginobili took to Twitter on Valentine's night, he didn't tweet about the Spurs victory over the stalled Detroit Pistons.
San Antonio Current |
Ryan Sachetta |
02-27-2012 |
Sports
The Panic Division: 'Eternalism'new
The Panic Division's first album since the Sleepwalker EP (2009) feels like a second Colton Holliday solo album in its continuation of a mix he's grown comfortable with: synth-rock, layers and layers of guitars, strong hooks and melodies, and that type of sweet darkness Interpol is — or used to be — good at.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
02-27-2012 |
Reviews
The Twisted Web of Church and Statenew
The state of Indiana won't talk about its $1.5M collaboration with the Indiana Family Institute (IFI) to promote "healthy marriage," while IFI officials lobby for a hetero-marriage amendment.
NUVO |
Andy Kopsa |
02-27-2012 |
Policy Issues
Bexar County Roller Girls Complete a Derby Triumviratenew
When it comes to roller derby, don't be fooled by the fishnets. "It's an actual sport," says CJ Herrera, a new Bexar County Roller Girls member. "It's work. It's competitive.
San Antonio Current |
Miranda Koerner |
02-27-2012 |
Sports
Value Vino: Is $5.99 wine worth drinking?new
Consumer Reports, the entity famous for trashing (literally and figuratively) automobiles and other consumer products, has weighed in on wine, claiming that their "experts" rated the 2009 Alice White Shiraz from Australia "better than a wine that cost $43."
San Antonio Current |
Ron Bechtol |
02-27-2012 |
Food+Drink
Tags: wine, value wine
Tree cuts anger Fisher Park residentsnew
Kay Lovelace stood under a small tree, only a few feet over her head, on Olive Street in Greensboro’s Fisher Park neighborhood. Looking up at it and pointing to where it had been cut back from the power line, she said, "I planted this pear tree."
YES! Weekly |
Eric Ginsburg |
02-27-2012 |
Politics
Tags: Fisher Park
Funeral home offers green alternatives to modern burialsnew
A woman stared into the empty pine coffin, eyeing the rough-hewn shroud inside with apprehension. “Well, it’s got burlap, and that makes me itch,” she said. She immediately realized what an odd thing it was to say about a wrapping for a lifeless body, but she repeated it anyway. "It does. It makes me itch."
Charleston City Paper |
Paul Bowers |
02-27-2012 |
Environment
Tags: green burial
SpreadingRomney.com: Poop Joke Goes Viralnew
A "santorum"-inspired redefinition of "romney" as "to defecate in terror" coined by local web designer and DJ Jack Shepler has gained meme steam.
Pity Dick Lugar, His Party's in Shamblesnew
State Treasurer Richard Mourdock has decided the time has come to unseat St. Richard. Once, not so long ago, a challenge like this would have been unthinkable.
NUVO |
David Hoppe |
02-27-2012 |
Commentary
Sleigh Bells: 'Reign of Terror'new
Several of the bands that grabbed critical attention with the sugary-pop-through-blown-speakers aesthetic popular a few years back (Wavves, Dum Dum Girls) managed to remain relevant by totally not doing that shit anymore.
San Antonio Current |
Jeremy Martin |
02-27-2012 |
Reviews
