Aug 17-23, 2005
How Mediators Are Helping Families End Their Feuds; A By-the-Numbers Look At Working and Vacationing; Joe Cleary’s New Musical Invention; Montreal’s Film Fest
Opinion: Uncivil Disobedience
Last summer I found myself sipping wine on a porch with a woman who had met William Rehnquist at a soiree in Greensboro, where the…
Astrology 08.17.05
ARIES(March 21-April 19) It’s time to play a game called Do-It-Yourself Horoscope! Here’s how it works: I provide a skeleton outline of your fortune, and…
News Quirks 08.17.05
Curses, Foiled Again Authorities in Richland County, S.C., reported that Booker Boyd, 49, disguised himself in women’s clothing to rob a bank, donning a black…
From Alice to … Jack?
Seven Days directs readers to Four Amendments and a Funeral, an eye-opening Rolling Stone article in which Matt Taibbi follows Sanders around the Capitol.
Deja Nous, The Romance of Paris
(Self-released, CD) Let me come right out and say that I know next to nothing about traditional French music. In fact, it was only this…
Gregory Douglass, Stark
(Emote Records, CD) The title of Vermont singer-songwriter Gregory Douglass’ fifth release suggests it is a stripped-down affair. That is partially true; several of the…
OFF THE MAP***
Joan Allen and Sam Elliott are paired in this story about a summer in the life of an offbeat early 1970s family living off the…
LOOK AT ME****
From French filmmaker Agnes Jaoui comes this bittersweet comedy in which the lives of an aspiring singer, a struggling writer, a voice coach and an…
KUNG FU HUSTLE ****
Stephen Chow wrote, directed and stars in this semi-surreal send-up of the Hong Kong martial-arts movie in which a would-be bad guy gets caught in…
BECAUSE OF WINN-DIXIE**1/2
Wayne (Smoke) Wang directs this family film about a young Florida girl who adopts an orphaned dog. Based on the bestseller by the same name….
