AltWeeklies Wire
An Offal Story: On Beef Cheeks and Barbacoanew
At my local store, none of the meat for sale is organic except the dog food. Unfortunately for my dog, I've been eating most of it myself.
Weekly Alibi |
Ari LeVaux |
03-30-2010 |
Food+Drink
Dork Cool: Brought to You by Twitternew
Four Macbooks and a motley assortment of cups clutter the table at The Bean and Leaf here on a cloudy Wednesday morning. The monitors flash with Twitter and Facebook updates while multiple conversations are being held over the din of the coffee house.
New Haven Advocate |
Rebecca Lucente |
03-30-2010 |
Tech
O, Pioneers! Nowhere to Pole Dance in New Havennew
You might find this hard to believe, but there’s nowhere to pole dance in New Haven. For exercise purposes, that is. That’s what Becky Poplawski discovered when she arrived at Yale this past fall to begin her freshman year.
New Haven Advocate |
Cara McDonough |
03-30-2010 |
Culture
That New-Decade Look: What Fashion Trends Will Emerge in the 2010s?new
With the dawn of a fresh decade upon us, we are provided an opportunity to reinvent ourselves. How will we define the 2010s through fashion and vice versa? Will we finally take a cue from The Jetsons or continue to recycle trends from the past?
Philadelphia City Paper |
Josh Middleton and Julia West |
03-30-2010 |
Fashion
Flood Damage: You Need a Good Reason to Rewrite Historynew
Rebecca Gilman's A True History of the Johnstown Flood is shot through with fictions and omissions. Gilman owns up to taking one such liberty in her program note, acknowledging that she invented almost all her characters.
Chicago Reader |
Justin Hayford |
03-29-2010 |
Theater
New Plays in Memphis Owe Gratitude to Artist/Educator Gloria Baxternew
Tennessee Williams may have found his calling after poring over the works of Anton Chekhov at the Rhodes College library, but Memphis, Tennessee, the home of the blues and birthplace of rock-and-roll, has never been known as a breeding ground for interesting new playwrights.
The Memphis Flyer |
Chris Davis |
03-27-2010 |
Theater
Smartphone Apps Take Birding to the Next Levelnew
It turns out that iBird Explorer is one of many birding apps for smartphones. There’s the WildLab, National Geographic Handheld Birds, Birdpost and ChirpTracker Mobile. Peterson Field Guides, a sacred text in the world of birding, even has apps.
Hartford Advocate |
Brianna Snyder |
03-26-2010 |
Tech
Illegal Gringo Crosser: Collaborative Work on a Reverse Border Humornew
A comedian and a multi-media/theater group director collaborate on a video pilot about illegal immigration with a twist... Americans wanting to sneak into Mexico.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Jimmy Fowler |
03-26-2010 |
Comedy
Eat Your Way Around the World Without Leaving Vegasnew
Julian Serrano, the Madrid-born chef of Picasso at the Bellagio, pays homage to his native cuisine at this CityCenter destination. The restaurant is stocked with tastes of Spain, like jamón Ibérico pata negra (cured ham that’s sliced straight off the leg in most Spanish home kitchens).
Las Vegas Weekly |
Las Vegas Weekly Staff |
03-26-2010 |
Food+Drink
KenCen’s Golden Age Offers an Overdose of Rococonew
Jeffrey Carlson’s Vincenzo Bellini isn't the only thing that's a mess in this play: Like too much of the art form it celebrates, Terrence McNally’s new comic drama Golden Age, about the heyday of bel canto opera, is overwritten and wildly overheated.
Washington City Paper |
Trey Graham |
03-26-2010 |
Theater
Tags: Golden Age, Terrence McNally
Flavor of the Week: Kitchen Confidentialnew
First there was Harrison. We had a broken relationship almost from the day we went from friends to more-than-friends, but one thing we shared was a fanatical devotion to great food and drink.
New York Press |
Emily Cavalier |
03-26-2010 |
Culture
Colorado Museum Looks Into the Offbeat Sides of Conflict and Resolutionnew
Little girls in white dresses and hairbows kick and beat each other. Meanwhile, a man flies a kite. These images explore the nature of conflict and resolution, the theme for the museum's new show.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Edie Adelstein |
03-25-2010 |
Art
Apple's New iPad is Poised to Change the World of Publishing — Possiblynew
I can't tell you definitively whether or not the device will, in fact, change the future of publishing, or save newspapers and magazines, or, on the flip side, decimate bookstores and libraries Heck if I know. No one knows. Yet.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Jill Thomas |
03-25-2010 |
Tech
Museum Brings Down Final Curtain on Ripleyesque Beginningsnew
When the Arkansas Museum of Discovery announced in January that it would deaccession many of the 14,000 artifacts in its collection, a cry went up. Don't give away our shrunken heads!
Arkansas Times |
Leslie Newell Peacock |
03-25-2010 |
Art
Roger Ballen at the George Eastman Housenew
Dream-sense can be unsettling in its dense, archetypal symbolism, and while some will argue that it's nothing more than the brain defragging the mess of information it must process, it's the sense that most interests Johannesburg, South Africa-based American photographer Roger Ballen, whose work can be seen at the George Eastman House through June 6.
City Newspaper |
Rebecca Rafferty |
03-24-2010 |
Art
