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A PG-13 Rating Suffocates the Funnew
As the title suggests, there are more snakes now than there were in 1997's Anaconda, but the filmmakers just don't seem to have the same deranged imagination as those who came before.
Miami New Times |
Luke Y. Thompson |
08-30-2004 |
Reviews
Usher No Longer Ignored at Video Music Awardsnew
Although the MTV Video Music Awards don't carry as much clout as the Grammys, they have become a cultural watermark. So maybe it makes sense that, when it comes to props, Usher Raymond cares as much about dominating these awards as he does about winning his platinum discs.
Miami New Times |
Mosi Reeves |
08-30-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Usher
Deceptive Men and Manipulative Womennew
It's a real credit to director Leconte that even though his film features a couple of ridiculous contrivances to get the plot going, the overall film still feels true.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Luke Y. Thompson |
08-30-2004 |
Reviews
RNC Report: Donkey Watchnew
The Dems put the ZZZZ… in zinger
Boston Phoenix |
David Bernstein |
08-30-2004 |
Politics
RNC Report: A History of the GOPnew
If the crappy cover band stationed outside Madison Square Garden this morning didn’t get Republican delegates good and pumped, the stirring History of Modern Republicanism recounted on three video screens while they waited to enter the building probably did the trick.
Boston Phoenix |
Adam Reilly |
08-30-2004 |
Politics
Screenplay Zeronew
Director E. Elias Merhige is too talented to be dismissed as a wannabe, but here his gifts for clever angles and oogy feelings are tethered to blase genre redundancies and clunky storytelling.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Gregory Weinkauf |
08-30-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: E. Elias Merhige, Suspect Zero
Quirky Floridian Rapper Drops Weird Sciencenew
When Bleubird (real name Jacques Bruna) isn't living with his parents in South Florida, he's traversing the globe, playing huge festivals like the Warped Tour, hopping around Belgium and Switzerland, and cutting albums with German rappers.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Audra Schroeder |
08-30-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Bleubird
Ragtag No More: Battling Bush Has Made Left Savviernew
One sign of the left's increasing sophistication is that even the anarchists are taking media training sessions.
Long Island Press |
Elizabeth Cady Brown |
08-30-2004 |
Politics
Coming to a Convention Near You: Scary Anarchist IInew
Stories in daily papers about anarchists plotting mayhem at the Republican convention are the kind of coverage that sets the stage for brutal treatment of even peaceful activists.
The Village Voice |
Sarah Ferguson |
08-30-2004 |
Media
Technology, Powered by Passion, Makes the Resistance So Coolnew
A loose network of tech-savvy activists has been working a long time to construct intriguingly bizarre electronic contraptions for creative resistance on the streets outside the Republican National Convention.
The Village Voice |
Geeta Dayal |
08-30-2004 |
Science
Delegates Check Out New York's Strip Clubsnew
As the Republican delegates come in, a strip-club waitress witnesses ever-increasing levels of naïveté and even some family values.
The Village Voice |
Anonymous |
08-30-2004 |
Recreation
500+ Protest Arrestees Denied Food, Water, Medicines, Lawyersnew
The National Lawyers Guild held an emergency press conference this morning to denounce the apparent denial of basic rights to those arrested in this week's protests, Anya Kamenetz reports in her blog about Republican National Convention protests.
The Village Voice |
Anya Kamenetz |
08-30-2004 |
Politics
Infamous Sugar Barons Make Nice with Publicnew
For decades, the Fanjul family and their company, Florida Crystals, have symbolized the harshness of corporate, big-business farming. Now they want to win public favor and push ahead with real estate development plans.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Eric Alan Barton |
08-30-2004 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
Dangerous Mind: County Attorney Candidate Promotes Harsh Viewsnew
Maricopa County Attorney hopeful Andy Thomas gets his core base of support from folks to whom the words illegal immigrants, welfare, right-to-choose, homosexuals, defense attorneys, activist judges, non-Christians and -- hold on tight now -- LIBERALS -- evoke conniption fits.
Phoenix New Times |
Paul Rubin |
08-30-2004 |
Politics
RNC Report: Chasing the Elephants Out of Times Squarenew
After Sunday's protest march, Central Park was calm, but Times Square was contested turf.
Boston Phoenix |
Camille Dodero |
08-30-2004 |
Politics
