AltWeeklies Wire
Pit-Cooking Porknew
The matanza, or ritual slaughter and cooking of a pig, has been a part of New Mexican culture since the first Spaniards settled in the state. Cooking a whole pig is an art form but also surprisingly low-tech.
Weekly Alibi |
Gwyneth Doland |
09-03-2004 |
Food+Drink
RNC Report: A Week of Protest Comes to an Endnew
On the Republican National Convention's last night, most of the activists who had come to New York were either still in cells or had gone home.
Boston Phoenix |
Camille Dodero |
09-03-2004 |
Politics
RNC Report: GOP to the World — I Yam What I Yamnew
The hardest thing to consider is changing the product.
Boston Phoenix |
David S. Bernstein |
09-03-2004 |
Politics
RNC Report: Protests Go Out with a Whimpernew
Suddenly, I was very, very tired. It was time to go home.
Boston Phoenix |
Adam Reilly |
09-03-2004 |
Politics
RNC Report: Everywhere a Signnew
A survey of some of the best protest placards.
Boston Phoenix |
Camille Dodero |
09-03-2004 |
Politics
RNC Report: How Bad Was Bush? Baaaaaaad!new
George, if you want anyone to believe you're really introducing "a clear and positive plan" to lead us through "this time of change," you have to give it a name. The 21st Century New Freedom plan or something.
Boston Phoenix |
David S. Bernstein |
09-03-2004 |
Politics
RNC Report: Waiting for George to Speaknew
All the way up to the big speech, Thursday night's convention program was so bad it seemed intentionally so.
Boston Phoenix |
David S. Bernstein |
09-03-2004 |
Politics
What People Fight About When They Fight About Lovenew
Although We Don’t Live Here Anymore is taken from two short stories by Andre Dubus, it was the recollection of another story – Raymond Carver's "What We Talk About When We talk About Love" – that gnawed at me throughout the film.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
09-02-2004 |
Reviews
Enter Park at Your Own Risknew
Paul McGuigan pulls out all the stops on his Wurlitzter Organ of Incessant Camera Trickery to muddy the waters of rationality in this bizarre remake of a fine French thriller.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
09-02-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Paul McGuigan, Wicker Park
Reese's Pieces of Thackeraynew
Disappointing screen adaptation lacks the novel's satiric edge.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
09-02-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Mira Nair, Vanity Fair
There Ought To Be a Lawnew
Let’s just call SuperBabies what it is: Child abuse.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
09-02-2004 |
Reviews
Foxing Rupertnew
The Fox News Channel's "fair and balanced" reporting is put to the test in this partisan documentary.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
09-02-2004 |
Reviews
Coming Cleannew
Provocative Austin-made feature pushs sexual buttons meant to arouse and provoke, but never satisfy.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
09-02-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Bryan Poyser, Dear Pillow
Sink or Swimnew
A Hollywood vessel of doom hunts for the Big Squeeze.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
09-02-2004 |
Reviews
All Good Things Come to an Endnew
A Howard Dean campaign worker turns the story of the little engine that couldn't quite scale the final hill into a discussion of how the Dean team transformed the way America plays politics.
Illinois Times |
Corrine Frisch |
09-02-2004 |
Nonfiction
