Table of contents for week of June 3, 2005
NEWS & FEATURES
Maine’s second-largest employer is under review for contesting an unreasonable number of workers’ comp claims. That employer? Why, the paragon of corporate decency, Wal-Mart, of course! By Christie Toth.
The Bush administration has delayed and defused privacy-oversight efforts until Bush's pet projects are in place. By then, any oversight will be beside the point, says David S. Bernstein.
With all the furor over the results of the Base Realignment and Closure Panel, Shay Stewart-Bouley says our attention has been turned away from what's most important: saving the state.
The New York Times has recently taken what they claim is an incisive, objective look at class divisions in this country. But according to Chris Lehmann, the Grey Lady's snobbery crippled its efforts from the start.
Plus, this just in:
LEGISLATIVE MATTERS: People are people — are corporations?
AN ARDEN HENDRIE CARTOON: Samson Seagull
Politics and Other Mistakes
Letters to the editor
Savage Love
Crossword solution
MUSIC
Sam Pfeifle has a long, meandering, improvisational conversation with Rob Derhak of moe., the one band who seems to embrace the "jam band" label.
In one year, the Killers have vaulted from indie neophytes to top 40 darlings. Mikael Wood talks with singer Brendan Flowers about how the band have negotiated stardom.
Spoon find less is more on Gimme Fiction. By Mikael Wood.
Matt Ashare examines two hip new bands, Robbers on High Street and Louis XIV.
Stephen Malkmus reveals himself on Face the Truth. By Franklin Soults.
Electrelane play by their own rules on Axes. By Michael Alan Goldberg.
Plus, Sibilance.
Also, short reviews of:
Akron/Family: AKRON/FAMILY CD
Gang Gang Dance: GOD’S MONEY
The House of Love: DAYS RUN AWAY
The National: ALLIGATOR
Various Artists: TWILIGHT TRAX
FILM
Peter Keough says family values score a knockout in Cinderella Man.
Short reviews of:
LORDS OF DOGTOWN
THE SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELING PANTS
THEATER
In An Evening with Monica Wood, Affiliate Artists perform what was never meant for the stage.
DANCE
Worth the trip:
Paul Taylor and Prometheus Dance
ART
Check out some cage-free art at Door 463, which is presenting its inaugural exhibit "...Infinite." By Maggie Knowles.
Worth the trip:
"Getting Emotional" at the Institute of Contemporary Art
BOOKS
Sam Pfeifle says a collection of stories by local authors called The Way Life Should Be is good, if a little depressing. Well now, that doesn't sound at all like the way life should be.
At last, John McManus moves from short stories to the novel with Bitter Milk. By Nina MacLaughlin.
TELEVISION
Joyce Millman inveighs against Lisa Kudrow's depressing new sitcom The Comeback, and also offers thoughts on The Closer and the Lost season finale.
FOOD
A fiddlehead festival in Falmouth supports your next cause. What's a fiddlehead, you ask? Andy King has all the answers, as usual.
SPECIALS
Best Music Poll 2005
The Best of 2004
Portland Band Guide
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