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Pages From a Marriage Marked by Griefnew
The best John Irving film adapation so far is still marred by too much restraint.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
07-23-2004 |
Reviews
The Great VH Debate: Hagar or Roth?new
Shortly before leaving on a vacation, I asked a member of each VH camp -- calendar editor and Roth fan Paul Friswold and staff writer and Hagar-hugger Mike Seely -- to settle the Sammy Hagar v. David Lee Roth argument once and for all. Here, edited for length, libel and sanity, is that debate.
Riverfront Times |
Mike Seely & Paul Friswold |
07-23-2004 |
Concerts
Great Big Sea Finds Success the Old-Fashioned Way
In a business defined by fads and gimmicks, this Newfoundland band is a consistent favourite.
Monday Magazine |
John Threlfall |
07-22-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Great Big Sea, Something Beautiful
Romantic Sequel to Before Sunrise Is Lyrical and Literate
This sequel is as romantic and wonderful as the movie it's based on.
Monday Magazine |
Robert Moyes |
07-22-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Richard Linklater, Before Sunset
Community Group Pushes the Limits of Urban Agriculture
Growing food on unused urban spaces makes sense economically and environmentally, says a new generation of farmers.
Monday Magazine |
Mark Vardy |
07-22-2004 |
Gardening
Tags: gardening
Despite Kookiness, Mark's New CD Delivers Great Tunes
The bastard love child of John Prine and Patsy Cline, Carolyn Mark returns with an album that, while occassionally frustrating, is one of the finest I’ve heard this year.
Monday Magazine |
Robert Wiersema |
07-22-2004 |
Reviews
Teenager Finds Kindness in Her Quirky Mennonite Community
For Miriam Toew's narrator, Nomi, life in a small town is a matter of being an insider or an outsider -- and figuring out which she is presents the main challenge in this novel.
Monday Magazine |
Andrew Murray |
07-22-2004 |
Fiction
Movie Theater Chains Split on Whether to Show Moore's Filmnew
Two movie chains based in Springfield, Ill., and owned by members of the same family made conflicting decisions about exhibiting Fahrenheit 9/11. GKC Theatres banned the film in 28 of its 29 theatres, but Kerasotes Theatres showed it.
Illinois Times |
John K. Wilson |
07-22-2004 |
Movies
Paging Elvis and Other Rock 'n' Roll Fantasiesnew
This book on the myths, legends, and curses surrounding rock 'n' roll will entertain anyone who's ever used a turntable to play Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven" backward.
Illinois Times |
Corrine Frisch |
07-22-2004 |
Nonfiction
Songs That Demand to Be Hummednew
A honeycomb tangle of bright, sticky hooks and tart counterpoint, this disc teems with ideas. Also reviewed is Petracovich's Blue Cotton Skin.
Illinois Times |
René Spencer Saller |
07-22-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: A.C. Newman, The Slow Wonder
Newsday Reports Half the Truth on Circulation Scandalnew
Advertisers accuse Newsday of inflating circulation figures in a federal racketeering lawsuit. The snowballing scandal led publisher Raymond Jansen to announce this week that he'll retire earlier than planned.
Long Island Press |
Christopher Twarowski |
07-22-2004 |
Media
A Protesters' Guide to Boston for the DNCnew
What does dissent mean in Boston? Being corralled in a designated pen three blocks from the event you're protesting, forbidden by city officials from brandishing placards on poles. And then they wonder what there is to protest.
Boston Phoenix |
Camille Dodero |
07-22-2004 |
Politics
Pretend Candidates Fake the Nation
Showtime’s American Candidate is the story of 10 candidates who find out what happens when they stop being political and start getting real … or is it stop being real and start getting political?
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Bill Frost |
07-22-2004 |
TV
Tags: TV
Outfoxed Charges News Channel with Partisan Reportingnew
Home screening parties were encouraged and gathered momentum for Outfoxed, a film that builds a case about how Murdoch uses his vast media reach not as a news organization but as a partisan soapbox for the Republican Party.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Heather Kuldell |
07-22-2004 |
Reviews
Compromising Position: A Letter to John Kerrynew
"I am endorsing you and voting for you, Senator, because you have done two things a simpering daddy’s boy like George W. Bush never would: you have marched both to and against war," political satirist Barry Crimmins writes to the presumptive Democratic nominee.
Boston Phoenix |
Barry Crimmins |
07-22-2004 |
Politics
