August 25, 2007 Archive

Music

• Music Review: Ravish Momin's Trio Tarana Miren (A Longing)

  ...an example of what happens when three dedicated and experienced musicians of like mind come together to make music.

  Review in Music — by Richard Marcus — on Aug 25, 2007

• Music Review: No Use For A Name - All The Best Songs

  No Use For A Name has released a greatest hits CD that belongs in all punk fans' collections.

  Review in Music — by Brian McConville — on Aug 25, 2007

• Music Review: The Mams - Wam Bam!

  The Mams CD, Wam Bam! is the perfect end to summer.

  Review in Music — by writnkitten — on Aug 25, 2007

• Music Review: Eddie Floyd - You've Got To Have Eddie

  Stax releases 1969 album by soul legend.

  Review in Music — by Dave Lifton — on Aug 25, 2007

• Interview: Band Of The Week - Yoshi

  Yoshi are on their way up… I just hope the neighbour boy fixes the hall light before he makes it big and moves out.

  Interview in Music — by A.L. Harper — on Aug 25, 2007

• Liner Notables: The Great Lost Kinks Album

  With no 20/20 about it, disheveled Davies’ ditties, B-sides and Besides are anthologized and annotated with the perceptiveness of hindsight in a house of mirrors.

  Opinion in Music — by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Aug 25, 2007

• Music Review: Stacy Mitchhart Gotta Get The Feeling Back Again

  Stacy Mitchhart plays some of the best down to earth Blues music I've heard in a long time.

  Review in Music — by Richard Marcus — on Aug 25, 2007

• Amy Winehouse: No, No, No to Rehab, Yes, Yes, Yes to Drugs?

  What is big entertainment news this week? Amy Winehouse. One more suddenly famous artist collapses from a drug overdose.

  Opinion in Music — by Mike Johnston — on Aug 25, 2007

• Music Review: Halloween - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2007)

  The Shape is stalking the music shelves....

  Review in Music — by Chris Beaumont — on Aug 25, 2007

• Music Review: Zambri - Zambri EP

  The music's one unique characteristic is that its fronted by two sisters -- Jessica and Cristi-Jo -- and boy can they have attitude.

  Review in Music — by Tan The Man — on Aug 25, 2007

• Music Review: Sly And The Family Stone - Greatest Hits (Original Recording Remastered)

  These songs sound as fresh now, as they did more than thirty years ago. So crank it up, and "Dance To The Music."

  Review in Music — by Glen Boyd — on Aug 25, 2007

• Music Review: Rilo Kiley - Under the Blacklight

  Underage sex, promiscuity, and tacit references to pornography describe this album or another night on the town for Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton.

  Review in Music — by Josh Hathaway — on Aug 25, 2007

• One Track Mind: Monte Montgomery "When Will I"

  Another guitar slinger from Austin, Texas? Montgomery's got a delightfully different twist, though.

  Review in Music — by Pico — on Aug 25, 2007

Sci/Tech

• T. Rex - It's What's For Dinner

  Fearsome dinosaur’s closest descendant found in barnyard.

  Opinion in Sci/Tech — by Ashtoreth Valecourt — on Aug 25, 2007

• Extinction

  Are all extinction events the same?

  Opinion in Sci/Tech — by Icarus — on Aug 25, 2007

• iPhone Unbound!

  Recent iPhone/AT&T news suggests additional ways to liberate old technology.

  Satire in Sci/Tech — by Robert K. Blechman — on Aug 25, 2007

• Road Bump Rage

  How teeth-chattering washboards form on heavily traveled dirt surfaces.

  News in Sci/Tech — by Dirk Hanson — on Aug 25, 2007

Video

• DVD Review: Tales From the Crypt - The Complete Sixth Season

  Overall, this set is certainly worth getting and watching on those late nights with the lights out and some popcorn at the ready

  Review in Video — by El Bicho — on Aug 25, 2007

• Movie Review: Army of Shadows

  In a medium that usually communicates through visceral images and sensations, Army of Shadows is an interior masterpiece.

  Review in Video — by moviejohn — on Aug 25, 2007

• Movie Review: 300

  300 is a bigoted, small-minded, short-sighted, shallow spectacle and little else.

  Review in Video — by Hugh Ruppersburg — on Aug 25, 2007

• Movie Review: Black Sheep

  You think “killer sheep” sounds funny? Think about it for ten seconds. There, you’ve watched Black Sheep and it didn't cost you a thing.

  Review in Video — by moviejohn — on Aug 25, 2007

• DVD Review: The Lookout

  One of the more underrated titles of 2007.

  Review in Video — by Chris Beaumont — on Aug 25, 2007

• Movie Review: Little Manhattan

  Puppy love is a concept that adults and teenagers would brush aside as immature and inconsequential...

  Review in Video — by moviejohn — on Aug 25, 2007

Culture

• The Old Warrior

  It's the little things in life that seem to always touch us the most. Unfortunately, most people never notice them.

  Opinion in Culture — by Mel Odom — on Aug 25, 2007

• The Shanghai Diaries - Setting Up Our New Home

  Remote controlled air conditioners, hard-as-rock beds, and the giant monstrosity known as IKEA.

  Opinion in Culture — by Mat Brewster — on Aug 25, 2007

Books

• Book Review: A State of Disobedience by Tom Kratman

  The book which answers the question - what would happen if Hillary Clinton were president and everything they say about her is true?

  Review in Books — by Dave Nalle — on Aug 25, 2007

Politics

• Part II: Sitting Guard at the Gate - Looking at the Jewish Theory of History to Understand Events

  Can a lazy hawk rising on a thermal explain events here when experts can't?

  News in Politics — by Ruvy — on Aug 25, 2007

• People Are More Important than Animals

  Those who torture animals should be punished; however, the punishment should not be greater than harming a person.

  Opinion in Politics — by Abel Keogh — on Aug 25, 2007