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Video Jockey Spreads Word About Fledgling Music Channelnew
Marianela Pereyra, host of the program Daily Download, came to South Beach to promote the fast-rising 24-hour music channel. Fuse TV competes with MTV by sticking to a strict diet of hip-hop, rock and Latin music video programming.
Miami New Times |
Mosi Reeves |
08-23-2004 |
TV
Nixon Rewound: RNC Brings to Mind Miami Beach, 1972new
Florida delegates headed to New York for the Republican National Convention don't know what might await them on the streets. But the group is a bit more diverse than the effete martini-sippers New York's anarchists apparently envision.
Miami New Times |
Brett Sokol |
08-23-2004 |
Politics
Rick James RIP, Bitch: DJs Pay Homage to the Funky Onenew
Rick James was a junkie who banged black (and white) models, as did the Rolling Stones. What's more, he was utterly unrepentant about it all from glorious beginning to sorry downfall to pitiful end.
Houston Press |
John Nova Lomax |
08-23-2004 |
Music
Blackbird Fly: Americana the Way It Ought to Benew
The Houston native's music manages to sound both Depression-era vintage and strikingly contemporary, while her songs are full of pleas for good old-fashioned morphine and desperate failed romances, not to mention the talking starfish and singing mermaids that gambol and frolic on the beaches of her adopted San Francisco home.
Houston Press |
John Nova Lomax |
08-23-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Double Trouble: Wrong Juan Diaz Jailed for Drug Runningnew
Family man Juan Diaz had just passed his citizenship test when immigration officers arrived with a sealed federal indictment and arrested him.
Houston Press |
George Flynn |
08-23-2004 |
Immigration
Politicians -- Not the Bible -- Create Flooding in Dallas Areanew
The mayor of a Dallas suburb says July floods that killed four were biblical, but major research in the past decade has identified a very non-biblical culprit in modern flooding: runoff. The Trinity River project, at a cost of billions, actually makes flooding worse.
Dallas Observer |
Jim Schutze |
08-23-2004 |
Politics
Cowboy Noir: African-American Aims for Rodeo Stardomnew
Twenty-one-year-old Justin Richard started roping calves when he was 10 and rode his first bull a year later. He's following in the tradition of the black cowboys who played an important, often overlooked role in frontier life.
Houston Press |
Craig Malisow |
08-23-2004 |
Performance
Monster Bash: Evil Space Critters Get Ready to Rumblenew
Part of the reason this film finally got made is that director Paul W.S. Anderson pitched a story set in the budget-friendly setting and location of present-day Earth, rather than across galaxies to multiple futuristic planets.
East Bay Express |
Luke Y. Thompson |
08-23-2004 |
Reviews
Country Music Survives: Time for Hipsters to Ride Mechanical Bullnew
Country is cool again. And not hipster-approved alt.country. No, this here's Wal-Mart country, unabashedly poppy and populist.
East Bay Express |
Rob Harvilla |
08-23-2004 |
Music
The Jazz Tortoise: Charlie Hunter Simplifies the Equationnew
Hunter has a reputation as an absolute monster live. There's a killer instinct within him that comes out in a stage setting, despite his penchant for laid-back grooves.
East Bay Express |
Eric K. Arnold |
08-23-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
More Bushwhacking: Filmmaker Sets Her Sights on the Presidentnew
Rose's documentary is truly effective in its firsthand accounts from people accosted and detained by police officers and FBI and Secret Service agents for doing little more than exchanging anti-Bush e-mails or speaking out against the war on terror in public places.
Dallas Observer |
Robert Wilonsky |
08-23-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
The Bond That Bonds: Spy-Fi Turns Out Album No. 001new
Specializing in re-creating the instrumentals of classic espionage flicks and TV shows from the '50s, '60s, and '70s, Spy-Fi spikes the themes from James Bond, Dick Tracy, Man From U.N.C.L.E., and dozens of others with volume and verve.
Cleveland Scene |
Jason Bracelin |
08-23-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Mohawks and Mullets Butt Heads on Ozzfest 2004new
The annual headbanger bacchanalia has undergone something of a sea change in 2004: Spearheaded by Superjoint, hardcore-influenced metal has taken over.
Cleveland Scene |
Jason Bracelin |
08-23-2004 |
Concerts
Tags: Various Artists, Ohio, Columbus, McGrath, Ozzy, Sabbath, Andy Williams, Black Sabbath, Buffalo metalcore quintet Every Time I Die, guitarist for Massachusetts metalcore bruisers Unearth, Judas Priest. Singer Rob Halford, Ozzfest 2004, Phil Anselmo, Symphonic black-metallers Dimmu Borgir, Vincent Price, concerts
Father Knows Best
George Washington’s Farewell Address offers lessons to a deeply divided modern America.
The Inlander |
Ted S. McGregor Jr. |
08-21-2004 |
Commentary
Commission Omission: What's Missing From the 9/11 report
FBI whistle-blower Sibel Edmonds says the 9/11 Commission report is seriously flawed and doesn't address serious intelligence issues that she addressed in her testimony to the commission.
Random Lengths News |
Paul Rosenberg |
08-21-2004 |
Policy Issues
