• Issue Archive for
  • May 9-16, 2012
  • Vol. 29, No. 19

Elections

Food

Film

  • Stultifying Britishness in <i>The Deep Blue Sea</i>
  • Stultifying Britishness in The Deep Blue Sea

    Whenever the film starts to feel a little dated, like we're watching people with a bygone manner of behavior in a period-piece fishbowl, director Terence Davies ties his characters' emotional distress to lingering trauma from the war.
  • Liberating Rastafarianism in <i>Marley</i>
  • Liberating Rastafarianism in Marley

    More than anything, director Kevin Macdonald's Marley revels in characterizing Bob Marley not only as an influential, groundbreaking artist, but as a man with a relentless, indomitable spirit.

Columns

  • Sudden spring

    When cool breezes and sunny days are just outside the screen door, we're all homesteaders at heart.
  • Drone warfare: politically expedient and disturbingly inaccurate
  • Drone warfare: politically expedient and disturbingly inaccurate

    Roughly 50 deadly strikes using drones occurred during George W. Bush's eight years in office. By contrast, in the three-plus years of the Obama presidency, there have been close to 300, and those strikes have killed as many as 3,000 people.
  • How beauty pageants view transwomen
  • How beauty pageants view transwomen

    What does the social acceptance of passing transwomen mean for other transwomen who do not fulfill social expectations of prettiness? Or who do not wish to pass at all?

Music

  • The guide to the week's concerts

    Ben Sollee, Des Ark, Midtown Dickens, Motor Skills, Archers Of Loaf, Mike Doughty, Jack The Radio, NC Beer & Band Festival, Drunken Prayer, Flesh Wounds, Appalucia, Unknown Hinson, Hank Sinatra, Horse Feathers, more
  • The woebegone wonders of Spiritualized
  • The woebegone wonders of Spiritualized

    Like a blues musician slowly giving himself to good gospel, Jason Pierce has long used his music to strike a balance between malevolence and romance, to establish a framework in which addiction and death and pain become avenues to transcendence.

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