February 13, 2010 Archive

Video

• DVD Review: Solid Dudes Kitchen – Season One

  An alternative to highbrow cooking shows

  Review in Video — by Cinema Sentries — on Feb 13, 2010

• Blu-ray Review: Hunger (2008) - The Criterion Collection

  Visceral and delicate, abstract and rigid, and altogether arresting.

  Review in Video — by Dusty Somers — on Feb 13, 2010

• TV Review: The Amazing Race 16

  Time for a new race around the world. If only all of the contestants knew what a map looked like.

  Review in Video — by Josh Lasser — on Feb 13, 2010

• TV Review: Steven Seagal Lawman - "Narc Force"

  Seagal contra Van Damme (and others).

  Review in Video — by Aaron Fleming — on Feb 13, 2010

• Movie Review: Edge of Darkness Blunted by Loose Ends

  While the film keeps you on the edge of your seat, the story keeps you searching your mind for an answer: what's this film really about?

  Review in Video — by Heloise — on Feb 13, 2010

• Blogcritics' American Experience Presidents Giveaway

  How's this for a way to assuage your guilt about mis-celebrating Presidents Day?

  News in Video — by Josh Lasser — on Feb 13, 2010

Music

• VCV: Tinsley Ellis - "The Night is Easy"

  Don't try this at home... please.

  Review in Music — by Josh Hathaway — on Feb 13, 2010

• Music Review: Archie Bronson Outfit - Coconut

  Coconut should please fans of both the Archie Bronson Outfit as well as fans of LCD Soundsystem.

  Review in Music — by Patrick Taylor — on Feb 13, 2010

• Music Review: Daphne Willis - What To Say

  From the classroom to the recording studio with Daphne Willis.

  Review in Music — by David Bowling — on Feb 13, 2010

• Split Enz's "I Got You" Sounds Fresh and Different 30 Years Later

  Split Enz's 1980 single fuses new wave and 1960s pop.

  Opinion in Music — by Kit O'Toole — on Feb 13, 2010

• Concert Review: Anvil, Studio Seven, Seattle, WA 2/12/10

  Anvil rocked a near sellout crowd at Seattle's Studio Seven.

  Review in Music — by Greg Barbrick — on Feb 13, 2010

Books

• Book Review: An Education in Happiness: The Lessons of Hesse and Tagore by Flavia Arzeni

  As we devour 21st century books about happiness, take time to learn how two 20th century Nobel-Prize winning authors found it.

  Review in Books — by Helen Gallagher — on Feb 13, 2010

• Book Review: A Yank Back to England: The Prodigal Tourist Returns by Denis Lipman

  Part travelogue, part memoir, A Yank Back to England tells the endearing tale of a reluctant American transplant and his trips back to England

  Review in Books — by Emm — on Feb 13, 2010

• Interview with Zetta Elliott, author of A Wish After Midnight

  Some teens don’t want to read about slavery because they feel all narratives present blacks as victims. Speculative fiction allows a contemporary perspective.

  Interview in Books — by Carole McDonnell — on Feb 13, 2010

• Book Review: Alphatudes: The Alphabet of Gratitude by Michele Wahlder

  Can an old-age philosopher find happiness in a new-age book? Not if she’s Miss Bob.

  Review in Books — by Miss Bob Etier — on Feb 13, 2010

• Reviews in Brief: Haru Hana: The Complete Collection by Yuana Kazumi

  The three-book shojo rom-com gets reissued in a hefty economy edition.

  Review in Books — by Bill Sherman — on Feb 13, 2010

• Book Review: Daughters of the Witching Hill by Mary Sharratt

  A story of powerfully strong women, friendship, betrayal and forgiveness.

  Review in Books — by Wisteria Leigh — on Feb 13, 2010

Culture

• Things I Failed to Learn from My Grandmother

  She grew, preserved and cooked her own food, and almost never threw anything away.

  Opinion in Culture — by Natalie Bennett — on Feb 13, 2010

• Theater Review (NYC): Charles L. Mee's Fêtes de la Nuit

  Almost magically, these characters whom we only glimpse come brightly alive, exuding sorrow, angst, joy in turn.

  Review in Culture — by Jon Sobel — on Feb 13, 2010

• The Trouble with Tenure

  Recent events in Huntsville, Alabama, invite re-examining tenure even when departmental meetings alone are enough to incite violence.

  Opinion in Culture — by Miss Bob Etier — on Feb 13, 2010

• Theatre Review (LA): Hellz Kitchen Ablaze by Tommy Carter at the Elephant Stageworks

  Crooked detectives want to share in the spoils from a drug bust. The play is taut, tense, full of paranoia and racism.

  Review in Culture — by Robert Machray — on Feb 13, 2010

Sports

• Winter Olympics Ceremony Was Majestic But Strange

  An astounding display of artistry, music and dancing.

  News in Sports — by Bruce G. Smith — on Feb 13, 2010

• Demian Maia Steps Up to Face Silva at UFC 112

  The Brazilian jiu-jitsu champion may prove to be a challenge for "the spider."

  News in Sports — by Noel Trotsky — on Feb 13, 2010

• Lindsey Vonn's Shin Is The Center Of Attention

  Will she ski or will she sit?

  News in Sports — by David Bowling — on Feb 13, 2010

Tastes

• Hack Your Kitchen

  When cooking, things are sometimes simpler than they seem.

  Opinion in Tastes — by Caitlin Pike — on Feb 13, 2010

Politics

• Haiti and the Ugly Side of Debt Relief

  Profiting from an ugly legacy.

  Opinion in Politics — by Bob Lloyd — on Feb 13, 2010

Gaming

• Nintendo Wii Review: Storybook Workshop

  This interactive storybook game has potential, but the confusing interface and other issues severely hamper it.

  Review in Gaming — by Tall Writer — on Feb 13, 2010