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High Wattage: Legendary Bass Guitarist Mike Watt
Legendary bassist of the Minute Men, Mike Watt is interviewed in his hometown of San Pedro, Calif., in anticipation of his new album that has just been released.
Random Lengths News |
Dan Simon and Paul Rosenberg |
08-21-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Patient Narrates His Own Brain Surgerynew
Joel Davis gets inside his own head by writing about what it's like to be conscious during brain surgery. The surgery is one more move in an ongoing effort to live as normal a life as is possible with Parkinson's disease.
Sacramento News & Review |
Joel Davis |
08-20-2004 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
Lost in Translationnew
Young tykes might thrill at phrases like "I activate my dark clown card!" but everyone else should steer clear of this ghastly Japanese cross-marketing hydra.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
08-20-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Hatsuki Tsuji, Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie
Boys Gone Mildnew
Three buddies light out into the wilderness in search of hidden treasure and a male-bonding experience -- but not too much male bonding, if you know what we mean.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
08-20-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Steven Brill, Without a Paddle
Game Overnew
Tall, dark, and icky meets shiny nappy people in this asinine grudge match between two of the most memorable '80s-era screen bugaboos.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
08-20-2004 |
Reviews
The Doctor Isn’t In, But the Tax Attorney Isnew
Leconte’s film tells a surprisingly romantic tale of confused identity and psychoanalysis.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
08-20-2004 |
Reviews
Love Me Tendernew
Zach Braff’s feature film debut is a zealously dreamy tale of love, loss and ecstasy among twentysomething misfits in the brackish wilds of modern New Jersey.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
08-20-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Garden State, Zach Braff
Chumming the Oceannew
Open Water amounts to 79 minutes of footage of a pair of petty, pretty people freaking out over having to go to the bathroom in their wetsuits, and in the end you find yourself rooting for the sharks.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
08-20-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Chris Kentis, Open Water
A Sight to Seenew
You may know a certain blind swordsman from the pulp novels of Kan Shimozawa and the films of Shintaro Katsu, but this ain’t your daddy’s Zatoichi.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
08-20-2004 |
Reviews
Body, But No Soulnew
From the "You Can’t Make This Stuff Up, Folks" files comes this unfeeling take on how Gram Parsons’ body went missing and reappeared a few days later in the desert, half-cremated.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
08-20-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: David Caffrey, Grand Theft Parsons
In Space, No One Can Hear You Laughnew
For a synopsis, read a different review. It’s enough to know that a bunch of walking lunchboxes in a confined space (OK, a giant subterranean pyramid) in the middle of nowhere (all right already, half a mile under Antarctica) find out the hard way that they’re not alone.
Missoula Independent |
Andy Smetanka |
08-20-2004 |
Reviews
Liberal Left Hooknew
Elder Democratic statesman George McGovern comes out swinging, quietly, in defense of American liberalism.
Missoula Independent |
Nicole Panter |
08-20-2004 |
Nonfiction
Chocolate and Beets, Together at Lastnew
How heavenly is the taste of pure chocolate? Not very, unless heaven is a bitter place; chocolate -- the roasted seed coat of the cacau plant -- is made palatable only when combined with sugar. Oftentimes that sugar comes from beets -- the world’s #2 source of the sweet stuff, behind sugarcane.
Missoula Independent |
Ari LeVaux |
08-20-2004 |
Food+Drink
Tags: beets
Post's Act of Contrition Not Enoughnew
We are realizing, as a nation, that mass hypnosis is not only possible, but that it’s already happened. In the case of the run-up to Iraq, through the fear and panic sowed by the Bush administration, a vast number of people allowed themselves to be led dumbfounded down the road to perdition.
Missoula Independent |
George Ochenski |
08-20-2004 |
Media
Tags: media
Is B.C. Jeopardizing Glacier to Pay for the Olympics?new
British Columbia sees drilling in Elk Valley as a source of revenue. But with it comes with the possibility of impacting watersheds in Montana, including some in Glacier National Park, with increased salt or metal levels.
Missoula Independent |
Mike Keefe-Feldman |
08-20-2004 |
Environment
