May 17, 2004 Archive

Sci/Tech

• Interesting Celebrity Gossip Site

  Brutal Stuff...

  in Sci/Tech — by RJ Elliott — on May 17, 2004

Video

• Last Samurai DVD Review

  in Video — by Matt Paprocki — on May 17, 2004

• The Film You Won't Be Seeing Any Time Soon

  in Video — by Scott Pepper — on May 17, 2004

• Van Helsing

  I have seen what may be a perfect movie. Van Helsing should be shown in film schools as an object lesson; both in what not to ever do and in how to cram as many clichés into a two hour span as possible.

  in Video — by Casper — on May 17, 2004

• Was it real, or was it

  in Video — by James Golden — on May 17, 2004

• The Practice - Series Finale

  in Video — by Scott Pepper — on May 17, 2004

Culture

• News Judgment Old and News Judgment New: American Nicholas Berg Beheaded. Now What?

  The argument surfaced last week: the gatekeepers in Big Media are mistaken--clueless, biased, disconnected--for filtering out the full horror of the Berg beheading. They haven't showed the photos or the video of the act itself. But the full horror is available on the Web, and hit meters suggest that some people are ready to see it. But will they see it on television? Perhaps.

  in Culture — by Jay Rosen — on May 17, 2004

• Going to the Chapel...

  Equality has come to one of the United States, and it is a joyful, wonderful occurrence. Don't forget, though, that the struggle for justice for all is far from over.

  in Culture — by Natalie Davis — on May 17, 2004

• Walking on the left

  I don't know if this is just a DC thing. Here in the district, we have a, well, a protocol for using the escalators...

  in Culture — by Casper — on May 17, 2004

Politics

• Iraq and Weapons of Mass Destruction

  Yup, we've found 'em

  in Politics — by RJ Elliott — on May 17, 2004

• The Film You Won't Be Seeing Any Time Soon

  in Politics — by Scott Pepper — on May 17, 2004

Music

• New album releases, week of 5-18-2004

  in Music — by Al Barger — on May 17, 2004

• The economics of music: for the artist, they're very ugly indeed

  in Music — by bookofjoe — on May 17, 2004

• New Rush album

  in Music — by Casper — on May 17, 2004

• CMU is 6

  in Music — by Marty Dodge — on May 17, 2004

• Spector arrested again...

  in Music — by Marty Dodge — on May 17, 2004

• P Diddy cans the band

  in Music — by Marty Dodge — on May 17, 2004

• Vallance quits music

  in Music — by Marty Dodge — on May 17, 2004

• Prince Ballads

  I set out to put together a CD of Prince ballads. This kind of little project is fun as an aesthetic exercise, starting with just figuring out what recordings would fit the bill. What do I mean by a ballad, exactly? Does it mean just songs with a slow tempo?

  in Music — by Al Barger — on May 17, 2004

• Maybe he is innocent

  in Music — by Lono — on May 17, 2004

Books

• The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat

  By Oliver Sacks, author of Awakenings

  in Books — by RJ Elliott — on May 17, 2004

• Past Due by William Lashner

  A fast paced legal/crime thriller with themes of family dysfunction and regret mixed in.

  in Books — by Kevin Holtsberry — on May 17, 2004