September 6, 2008 Archive

Sci/Tech

• Laptop Review: Acer Aspire One

  While there are some problems with the layout and mouse of this device, the overall usability of it prevails.

  Review in Sci/Tech — by Robert M. Barga — on Sep 06, 2008

• Increasing Web Site Stickiness: Embedding Flash Games in Web Sites

  Are your site visitors not hanging around as long as you'd like? Try adding a little fun.

  Opinion in Sci/Tech — by Z.Z. Bachman — on Sep 06, 2008

Culture

• Theatre Review (LA): Agamemnon by Aeschylus

  Tyne Daly and Delroy Lindo star in a powerful production of the 2,500-year-old classic.

  Review in Culture — by Robert Machray — on Sep 06, 2008

• Theater Review (NYC): The Chalk Boy by Joshua Conkel

  Teen girl anxieties meet existential angst in Joshua Conkel's The Chalk Boy.

  Review in Culture — by Ethan Stanislawski — on Sep 06, 2008

• Exhibition Review: Frida Kahlo at The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

  Frida Kahlo's life and art, in painting and biography.

  Review in Culture — by Terence Clarke — on Sep 06, 2008

• Theater Review (LA): Once On This Island by Ahrens and Flaherty at the Freud Playhouse

  This vibrant new production is an auspicious start for the new Reprise team.

  Review in Culture — by Robert Machray — on Sep 06, 2008

Music

• Music Review: The Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet

  Please allow me to introduce myself - Beggars Banquet - one of the finest Stones albums ever

  Review in Music — by Jeff Perkins — on Sep 06, 2008

• Music Music DVD Review: Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Rahsaan Roland Kirk: Live In '63 & '67

  For sheer excitement, and jaw-dropping astonishment, there are few players alive today who can match what Rahsaan accomplished.

  Review in Music — by Richard Marcus — on Sep 06, 2008

• Music Review: The Cute Lepers - Can't Stand Modern Music

  Steve E. Nix and his new power-pop band, the Cute Lepers, take up where the Briefs left off.

  Review in Music — by Jade Blackmore — on Sep 06, 2008

• Music Review: Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby

  An engaging collaboration between the Britpop paranoid and his equally sharp spouse.

  Review in Music — by Bill Sherman — on Sep 06, 2008

• Music Review: P.W. Long - God Bless The Drunkard’s Dog

  I could definitely see some hotties dancing and getting it on to this album.

  Review in Music — by Mike Hammer — on Sep 06, 2008

• Jerry Wexler: In Passing (1917-2008)

  A belated tribute to Jerry Wexler.

  News in Music — by David Bowling — on Sep 06, 2008

• Music Review: Costanza - Sonic Diary

  Multi talented, multi dimensional - Costanza's Sonic Diary will get under your skin

  Review in Music — by Jeff Perkins — on Sep 06, 2008

• Interview: Willie Nile - Troubadour Of New York City

  "Here's to making music and magic and maybe stumbling across a little inspiration here and there..."

  Interview in Music — by Richard Marcus — on Sep 06, 2008

• Music Review: Emiliana Torrini - Me and Armini

  A study in exuberant deliberateness and punchy breaths.

  Review in Music — by Sarah C. Culver — on Sep 06, 2008

• Music Review: Metal Church - The Present Wasteland

  Metal veterans return with solid but unspectacular offering.

  Review in Music — by Stuart A Hamilton — on Sep 06, 2008

• Music Review: Ecliptica - Impetus

  Ecliptica's album Impetus will hopefully give them exactly that.

  Review in Music — by Jeff Perkins — on Sep 06, 2008

• Concert Review: Kaki King, San Francisco CA, August 21, 2008

  Kaki King demonstrates acoustic fingerpicking techniques acquired near rings of Saturn. Claims she is from Brooklyn. Author burns his guitar.

  Review in Music — by Ken Risling — on Sep 06, 2008

• Music Review: Johnnie Allan - Memories

  Take your mind off the stormy weather with music from the bayou.

  Review in Music — by Big Geez — on Sep 06, 2008

Books

• Book Review: Shawls Two On The Go and Grannies On The Go, Edited by Trisha Malcolm

  Shawls Two is lovely. Grannies is a no-go.

  Review in Books — by Alyse Wax — on Sep 06, 2008

• Book Review: Matrimony by Joshua Henkin

  Wonderful autumn reading, the perfect antidote to all that beach reading that filled up your summer months.

  Review in Books — by Lisa Solod — on Sep 06, 2008

• Book Review: Wild Goose Chase - Reclaim the Adventure of Pursuing God by Mark Batterson

  What is preventing you, and I, from chasing after the Holy Spirit with reckless abandon?

  Review in Books — by Jennifer Bogart — on Sep 06, 2008

• Book Review: The Heart Of The Country by Fay Weldon

  Fay Weldon scrapes through the surface of a rural idyll to reveal people doing what people do, to find a caricature of modern British society.

  Review in Books — by Philip Spires — on Sep 06, 2008

• Book Review: Chic Knits - Stylish Designs from Knitport by Phuong My Ly

  Chic Knits is a solid collection of wearable knits.

  Review in Books — by Alyse Wax — on Sep 06, 2008

• Book Review: Every Secret Crime - A Reno McCarthy Novel by Doug M. Cummings

  The second book following Reno McCarthy as he investigates a murder in politically controlled Falcon Ridge

  Review in Books — by Janica Unruh — on Sep 06, 2008

• Book Review: Duck Duck Wally: A Novel by Gabe Rotter

  As a humorist, debut author Gabe Rotter has made a comedic grand entrance on the pop culture sha-zeeny!

  Review in Books — by Georganna Hancock — on Sep 06, 2008

• Book Review: The Triumph of Deborah by Eva Etzioni-Halevy

  A lovely telling of one of the Bible's most compelling tales, the story of Deborah.

  Review in Books — by Barbara Barnett — on Sep 06, 2008

• Book Review: Skein for Skein by Cheryl Potter

  A good guide to yarn substitution, but lacking in exciting patterns.

  Review in Books — by Alyse Wax — on Sep 06, 2008

• Book Review: Twenty Poems to Nourish Your Soul edited by Judith Valente and Charles Reynard

  The nourishment one takes from this volume of paired poems and essays, perhaps depends upon how one prefers to dine.

  Review in Books — by Brandy — on Sep 06, 2008

Video

• J.J. Abrams and Joshua Jackson on the Fringe of Science in New FOX Series

  Abrams and Jackson dish about their hotly anticipated new show.

  Interview in Video — by Gerry Weaver — on Sep 06, 2008

• Movie Review: Bangkok Dangerous

  It manages to dodge the bullets which usually result in these remakes being entirely wretched.

  Review in Video — by Ross Miller — on Sep 06, 2008

• TV Recap: Project Runway - Season Five, Episode Eight

  The designers test their aptitude for intrigue. This week's challenge dares them to enter a "Foreign Affair."

  Review in Video — by Brandy — on Sep 06, 2008

• What's Wrong With Today's Horror Movies? Part Two

  More insights into why today's horror is not up to snuff.

  Opinion in Video — by The League of Tana Tea Drinkers — on Sep 06, 2008

• Movie Media: The Haunting of Molly Hartley, Transporter 3, Fist of Legend, Fast & Furious, Saw V, Burn After Reading, Goofy: How to Hook Up Your Home Theater, Humboldt County, Star Trek

  A plethora of trailers and stills, just for you.

  News in Video — by Chris Beaumont — on Sep 06, 2008

Politics

• Wilson Sisters To RNC: "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around!"

  Ann and Nancy Wilson of the rock group "Heart" infuriated at the use of their '70s rock anthem.

  News in Politics — by Jet Gardner — on Sep 06, 2008