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Hubway in the Hub a public bike system rolls
into Boston The Boston Phoenix (May 2011). Bike
Porn 4: the rolling, edge pushing film fest comes back to the Brattle, The Boston Phoenix (March 2011). An interview with Love and Other Drugs director, Edward
Zwick. The Boston Phoenix (Nov. 2010). An interview with Waiting
for Superman director, Davis
Guggenheim. The Boston Phoenix (Sept. 2010). Film
and School Reform: the director off An Inconvenient Truth tackles the ills
of education. The Boston Phoenix (Sept. 2010). Booty
for Bounty shake your tail
feathers and help make a movie. The Boston Phoenix (June 2010). Pedal Promise
is Boston ready to be a 1st class cycle city? The Boston Phoenix (May 2010). Bike Culture: life on 2
wheels is changing in Boston, The Boston Phoenix (April 2010). Bike
Porn: a cult film fest in the making rolls into the Brattle, The Boston Phoenix (April 2010). An interview with Doors keyboardist Ray
Manzarek. The Boston Phoenix (April
2010). Oscars
East: Hanging with The Hurt Locker, The Boston Phoenix (February 2010). Eat
it raw: ever thought about eating healthier to the extreme? The Boston Phoenix (December
2009). An
Interview with Frederick Wiseman about his life behind the camera and his latest documentary, La Danse. The Boston Phoenix (December
2009). Time
Bomb, a door stop turns out to be
an explosive The Boston Phoenix November
2009). An
Interview with Colin Beavan,
author, eco-activist and subject of the documentary, No Impact Man. The
Boston Phoenix (September 2009). Assholes Rule, frat boy Tucker Max takes his penis waving shtick on the road
to promote I
Hope They Server Beer in Hell, The Boston Phoenix (September 2009). Avatars Anyone? Upgrading Movies to ‘Near Reality’ published on Web del Sol (2008). Do we Really Need More Moore? Another
movie, another spin cycle. Posted on Web del Sol (July 2007).
Go
Make a Movie: My take on doing the 48 Hour Film Project posted
on Misstropolis
(May 2007).
Oscar Goes Old
School
Is Oscar going limp? Posted on Web del Sol (March 2007).
Before there was Darfur a profile of John Bul Dau, the Sudanese Lost Boy who’s featured in the haunting
documentary God Grew
Tired of Us, in The Boston
Phoenix (January
2007). An Interview with
Sylvester Stallone about aging and Rocky Balboa (aka Rocky VI) in The Boston
Phoenix (December
2006). Is
it too soon for movies like United
93, World
Trade Center and The
Queen?
Read my blip Seeking the
Truth in Dramatized Reality on Web
del Sol (November
2006).
New church sex abuse
film rings familiar in The Boston Phoenix (October 2006).
Copy
Cat: a fellow critic cops a plea in The Boston Phoenix (June 2006).
Moore Controversy: one rambling critic takes
on another, posted on Web del Sol (June 2004). Post pub note
(2006), this Rant on Michael Moore and Fahrenheit 9/11 will be published in the Web del Sol anthology, Your Life is a
Movie. See the cover
mockups.
A Case of Written
Conflict: Author vs Author, Rant 12: October
2005 gets published on Web
del Sol (2005). The Politics of Writing: Beware the Pithy Pams, Rant 6: September 2005 gets published on Web del Sol (2005). SolPix
@ Web del Sol run through the archives
and poke around, there’s plenty there.
The Ban
in Iran an interview: the politics of
Iranian filmmaker, Jafar Panahi
published in The
Boston Phoenix (2000). An Interview
with Laura Linney after getting an academy award nomination for You
Can Count On Me (2000). My essay Moore Controversy: one rambling critic takes on
another (June 2004) on Michael
Moore and Fahrenheit 9/11 is now available in the Web
del Sol anthology Your
Life is a Movie (2006) available
at Amazon. My short Scrambling is available in Thieves
Jargon’s first anthology, Year of the Thief (2006), which will soon
also be available at Amazon too. Read the review in the Boston Phoenix (2006). My nonfiction short The Season That Almost Wasn't, which won first place in the Ghost Road Press’s Open Windows contest, is
out in GRP’s 2006 Open Windows Anthology (2006). Scrambling: a high school jock tries to work out
complications in his life. Thieves
Jargon (2005).
The Season That Almost Wasn't how
the author almost missed the greatest comeback in all of sports @ Slow Trains
(2005). Antenuptial: a woman’s second thoughts about
marriage (adult material), was a finalist in the 2005 Bukowski Pint and the Pen competition. You can also get it on the Hot Sex Issue at Web del Sol (2007)
Learning to Read Bukowski: complicated young love, this
year’s Bukowski Pint and Pen entry that never made
it in time. The Green Muse
(2007). Date:
short, short, published in Tuesday Shorts
(2008). For
the Boston 2007 48 Hour Film Project I was the writer on Quin Quimby and the Itchy
Scourge. Rant 23: December
2006 Michael
Richards, Talk to Me. Rant 22:
November 2006 Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell and Same Sex Marriage. Rant 21: September
2006 Nixon
and Peace, the Pope and the Pedophile, Schindler’s Folly and even Hugo
Chavez. Rant 20: August 2006
The
End of Violence, or premature victory? Rant 19: August 2006
The Shamless Sham of M. Night Shyamalan. Rant 18: June
2006 Two for the Road: DVD
Picks of the Week & Lost and
Found, the Story of a Boy and his Bike. Rant 17: March
2006 Proulx BS, or How the Little Bald Guy Became a Political Lightening
Rod. Rant 16: February
2006 Fascism Lives! The inane case of David Irving. Rant 15:
February 2006 Oscar on the Cheap. Rant 14: January
2006 Direct to Video Too: Bursting the Bubble on Film Distribution. Rant 13: January
2006 How “ Rant 12: October
2005 A Case of Written Conflict: When authors review authors. Rant 11: September
2005 The Hunt for a Red October: It’s down to the wire for the Red Sox. Rant 10:
September 2005 Cinematic Current
Issues: Roll Bounce and Flightplan open with touches of Katrina and
the war on terror. Rant 9:
September 2005 Java Gouging: Why does
it cost more for a venti iced coffee than a hot one
at Starbucks? Rant 8: September
2005 March on What? Bush and the Stop the War
protesters have the same agenda. Rant 7: September
2005 Venomous Thinking: Katrina hits and Dimension Films
release a thrill kill flick set in Rant 6:
September 2005 Into the Belly of the Beast:
Fear and Loathing in a Writers’ Group Rant 5: September
2005 Is
the Boston Film Festival on life support? Rant 4: August 2005
Is Lance a Dope? Is Lance
Armstrong a target or is he a cheat? Rant 3: August 2005
Does
Celibacy Sell?
The
40 Year Old Virgin is cleaning up and the real sex in
9
Songs has no takers. Rant 2: August
2005 No
Paradise:
how hack Rant 1: August
2005 Falling
on Scissors, or a memoir gone bad?
Will author Augusten Burroughs pay the piper in
court? Lay of the Land
by
Richard Ford (October 2007). The Alchemist
by
Paulo Coelho (July 2007). Where I'm
Calling From by Raymond Carver (June 2007). Freakonomics
by
Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner (May 2007). Twilight for the
Superheroes by Deborah Eisenberg (May 2007). The Road by
Cormac McCarthy (February
2007). On Beauty by
Zadie Smith (February
2007). Kafka on the
Shore by Hauruki
Murakami (December 2006). Oblivion
by
David Foster Wallace (April 2006). Envy by
Kathryn Harrison (December 2005). Bartleby, the
Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street by Herman
Melville (November 2005). Tooth and Claw
by TC Boyle (October 2005). Jesus’s Son by
Denis Johnson (September 2005). All Souls
by Michael Patrick Macdonald (September
2005). 1776
by David McCullough (August 2005). No Country for Old
Men by
Cormac McCarthy (August 2005). |
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