AltWeeklies Wire
Freeze-framenew
Ten years after Roxbury, Massachusetts, filmmaker Robert Patton-Spruill directed his critically acclaimed film Squeeze, he’s finally back behind the camera. Will it be worth the wait? Does it even matter?
Boston Phoenix |
Camille Dodero |
09-09-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Wake-up Callnew
Fight back! Talk about science! Here are five ideas for John Kerry to get back into the race.
Boston Phoenix |
Dan Kennedy |
09-09-2004 |
Politics
Tags: compaign, Presidentail
How John Kerry Can Emerge From the Democratic Doldrumsnew
In the aftermath of the convention, Democrats are surely praying for something — to begin with, a little more clarity and focus from their nominee.
L.A. Weekly |
Harold Meyerson |
09-09-2004 |
Commentary
Ended Summernew
Robb Moss had a 16-millimeter movie camera in 1978, and he took it with him when he and a group of his closest friends went to the Grand Canyon for a summer on the river, a summer of floats and kayaks, heart-stoppingly gorgeous scenery, open-fire meals and the politics of fading adolescence.
Missoula Independent |
Susanna Sonnenberg |
09-09-2004 |
Reviews
Target Bushnew
Nicholson Baker's new book addresses Bush hatred with a silver-bullet scenario.
Missoula Independent |
John Freeman |
09-09-2004 |
Fiction
Clinton and Kerry in Intensive Carenew
I can imagine Clinton warning Kerry that he better get his act together real soon, that he ought to find a message and stay on it, and that he ought to hit back hard at Bush, lest he get used to the idea of spending the next four years playing tiddlywinks with the last guy who didn’t heed his campaign counsel — that goofy Al Gore.
L.A. Weekly |
Marc Cooper |
09-09-2004 |
Comedy
Pot and Prosecutionnew
With a medical marijuana initiative on Montana's November ballot, Missoula's medical marijuana poster child Robin Prosser finds relief as the prosecution rests.
Missoula Independent |
Keila Szpaller |
09-09-2004 |
Science
Unsanctioned Sicknessnew
With victim-compensation legislation stalled, and the science of asbestos-related disease uncertain, how does the federal government plan to "heal" Libby, Montana?
Missoula Independent |
Mike Keefe-Feldman |
09-09-2004 |
Environment
Immigrants Chase Green Cards on Reality Shownew
Seen on Spanish-language stations in L.A., San Diego, Houston and Dallas, Gana la Verde is basically Fear Factor, only instead of blondes in bikinis competing for money, the contestants are Latinos competing for a year's worth of counsel from an immigration lawyer.
Long Island Press |
Todd Hyman |
09-09-2004 |
TV
Tags: TV
All In: The New World Order of Poker
In the free-for-all world of poker, legions of new players attracted by TV and the Internet now compete against seasoned pros.
Columbia Free Times |
Timothy Allen Conklin |
09-09-2004 |
Recreation
Tags: recreation
New Book Examines Classic Rock Songs of the Southnew
Kemp sees the history of Southern rock as, in part, a program of recovery for young white Southerners forced to confront their ancestral guilt: the ashamed melancholy of the Macon-based Allman Brothers Band, the anger of Lynyrd Skynyrd, the intellectual distance of Athens band R.E.M., and the acceptance and final transcendence of the Drive-By Truckers as they sang, "Proud of the glory, stare down the shame/Duality of the Southern thing."
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Bell |
09-09-2004 |
Nonfiction
He's a Carolina Pranksternew
The protagonist of Singleton's new novel, Mendal Dawes, grows up in the, uh, 100 percent fictional small mill town of Forty-Five, S.C., son to a brilliant if somewhat unbalanced trickster of an anarchist-liberal who continually disrupts the town's banal busybodies and proselytizing religious nuts. Turns out, Singleton is writing from experience.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Bell |
09-09-2004 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
First-Time Director Lance Rivera Never Finds the Laid-Back Tonenew
Too often The Cookout leaves comic opportunities half-baked while smothering the audience in flavorless homilies about family values.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
09-09-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Lance Rivera, The Cookout
Gallo Uses Style as a Distraction From Lack of Originalitynew
All of the negative hype and reports of boos from audiences at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival prove to be legitimate responses to Vincent Gallo's masturbatory opus, The Brown Bunny.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
09-09-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: The Brown Bunny, Vincent Gallo
Philosophical Documentary is About Everything and Nothingnew
If you yawned at the high-tech action scenes of the Matrix movies but loved all the verbiage about the nature of reality, feed your head with What the #$*! Do We Know!?
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
09-09-2004 |
Reviews
