Raise High The White Flag, Mancini: In Which Manchester City’s Coach Concedes. Again.
Pete Hausler04.28.12
While Manchester City’s on-field form has fluctuated throughout the current English Premier League season, one thing has been constant: Coach Roberto Mancini, the King of the Conceders, has early and often genuflected to City’s cross-town rivals, Manchester United. It’s like he came to England from Italy two years ago expressly to kiss Sir Alex Ferguson’s rings. Rex Ryan he ain’t.
A Tunnel Too Far
Gean Moreno04.26.12
Privatized infrastructure is reshaping Miami, not in an Edward Sharpe “Up From Below” type of way––more in an Underminer way.
Elegy for Adrienne Rich, 1929-2012
Laura Carter04.26.12
The resonant hall of memory is a lot like the First Unitarian Universalist Church on Polk Street, San Francisco. Adrienne Rich held court in both, filling her audience with the direct, fluid power of her words. Laura Carter examines her legacy, grasps at the delta, to find that the poet “long ago moved on / deeper into the heart of the matter.” Rest in peace.
Michael Palmieri and Donal Mosher’s Off Label
Justin Stewart04.25.12
Medicine can be life saving, or poisonous. Can we come by the medicines we take without human guinea pigs? Where we once used prisoners, now there is a subculture of volunteers. Michael Palmieri and Donal Mosher, directors of the much lauded October Country are back with a haunting document of the “off label” world. Off Label premiered this weekend at the Tribeca Film Festival and is on to competition in Hotdocs in Toronto and then the San Francisco International Film Fest. Justin Stewart reviews.
It Was Acceptable in the 90s
Bradford Nordeen04.25.12
Some big historically notable ship sank (again, on film), someone stuck their dick in pie, and Buffy was the hottest vampire SLAYER going. It was the 90s and it’s happening again in a theater near you. Ship sinking (but in 3D), pie molestors getting together for a reunion and more Vamps than you can shake a cross at. Oh and Cabin in the Woods, which is timeless right? Bradford Nordeen takes us to the multiplex.
Semi-Ambient Review of Mathias Svalina’s I Am A Very Productive Entrepreneur
Blake Butler04.23.12
Blake Butler finds a little sweetness in Mathias Svalina’s I Am A Very Productive Entrepreneur and burns it off with a machine like the one from the 80s that swings around your ankle as you skip, but it’s not skip counting because that’s how you count by twos.
Jon Raymond’s Contradictory Territories: From Page to Screen
Donal Mosher04.19.12
Jon Raymond is the incredibly adroit screenwriter behind Kelly Reichardt’s Wendy and Lucy, Old Joy, Meek’s Cutoff and the award winning tv miniseries Mildred Pierce. He’s also an author, and his latest novel Rain Dragon is reviewed here by filmmaker Donal Mosher (whose latest Off Label debuts at the Tribeca Film Festival tonight…review on that soon!). The two also sit down for a chat about the differences between script and prose writing and a heap of other tasty, sage stuff.
Music Man Murray/Record Store Day
Casey McKinney04.15.12
Richard Parks is like a young Orson Welles, brimming with talent and well into his cups… sorry I mean his cups are overflowing, myriads of mastery spilling into various fissures, gullets, open wounds. He can pick a bluegrass mandolin till your heart bleeds in harmony or skips a pulse, but that’s beside the point. Sort […]
The Fanzine Sports Desk NHL Playoff Preview
Pete Hausler and Michael Louie04.10.12
For some, the warm days of spring conjures images of lush verdant grass fields, the smell of leather, and satisfying thwack! of the ball. Those people are called Leafs fans, who are used to golfing around this time. For the rest of the hockey world, there’s playoffs to be had. Pete Hausler and Mike Louie bring us their previews and picks from the first round.
Eyeball the Stain
Jan Wiezorek04.05.12
A fly in the ointment of obsession. New fiction by Jan Wiezorek. Art by Danny Jock.
