Table of contents for week of February 4, 2005
NEWS & FEATURES
As the author of Natural Cures THEY Don't Want You to Know About will tell you in an excruciatingly boring monologue, the drug industry would prefer you simply stay sick so they can profit. And while his claims that cancer can be cured simply by keeping your body's PH level alkaline are specious at best, it's true that Big Medicine has gotten out of control in this country. As Alex Irvine reports, Maine is leading the charge against this ravenous whore of an industry.
It's Black History Month! Prepare for 28 days of complaints running the gamut from "How come there isn't a White History Month?" to "Why is Black History Month the shortest month of the year?" Shay Stewart-Bouley says that to make diversity meaningful, we must redefine how we celebrate and teach about it.
One of the best travel guides for the hip young backpacker is the Let's Go series. You might have known that this series is updated every year by a group of students at Harvard, but you probably didn't realize that it's a completely different staff on each new edition. Tamara Wieder gets the straight dope on the series' success from its project manager, Tom Mercer.
Plus, this just in:
QUEER NATION: Later on, Sisters
FIRST PERSON: E-ZPass and me
Politics and Other Mistakes
Bramhall Square
Letters to the editor
Savage Love
Crossword solution
MUSIC
Just like Jethro Tull, Jeremiah Freed is a band whose name sounds like a dude's name. They're headed west on a train bound for glory. Sam Pfeifle bids a fond farewell.
Frederic Chiu comes to Maine to perform and teach. And maybe to do a little more, if he's half the party animal he looks. Watch out, ladies! By Becca Dewan.
In one sense, everything Lou Barlow has done since his acrimonious split from Dinosaur Jr. -- Sebadoh, Sentridoh, Folk Implosion -- has been solo. But in another, more marketable sense, Emoh is his first truly solo effort. Jeff Miller talks to the man himself.
Matt Ashare talks to Ani DiFranco about her new album, Knuckle Down. Your little sister is psyched.
Former James singer Tim Booth may never again reach the dizzying hits of that band's hit "Laid," and for that we should all be grateful. But he does have a solo career, and Mac Randall will tell you all about it.
Plus, Sibilance.
Worth the trip:
The Dents at the Abbey Lounge
The Information at the Paradise
Also, short reviews of:
Animal Collective: SUNG TONGS
The Futureheads: THE FUTUREHEADS
Paula Morelenbaum: BERIMBAUM
Paul Motian Trio: I HAVE THE ROOM ABOVE HER
Pink Floyd: THE PINK FLOYD AND SYD BARRETT STORY
Sage Francis: A HEALTHY DISTRUST
The Zutons: WHO KILLED THE ZUTONS?
FILM
Short reviews of:
ALONE IN THE DARK
HIDE AND SEEK
THEATER
"Don't tell me you've never played dumb," challenges Megan Grumbling. Megan, we've never played at it in our lives. This has to do with a play called The Foreigner, by the way.
Worth the trip:
The Moonlight Room at the Boston Center for the Arts
ART
If you've been agonizing over how to take art seriously in the age of empire, Chris Thompson has the solution. (Damned if we know what it is.)
Worth the Trip:
"Cuban Prints" at the Massachusetts College of Art; "¡Dominicanazo!: The New Dominican Wave in Art" at Samson Projects
BOOKS
If we snuck up behind you and smacked you on the ass, you'd jump before you realized what had happened -- before you consciously thought about the righteous ass-smacking you'd just received. Or maybe you spun around right before we got there, aware of our presence by intuition alone. How does that work? Malcolm Gladwell investigates in Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking. Review by Jon Garelick.
FOOD
Screw breakfast -- now you can eat dinner at One Fifty Ate. Wait, breakfast, baby, we didn't mean to make you cry. By Brian Duff.
Andy King stands up for the Back Bay Grill, the Rodney Dangerfield of Portland eateries.
SPECIALS
Best Music Poll 2004
The Best of 2004
Portland Band Guide
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