Table of contents for week of July 22, 2005
NEWS & FEATURES
Finally, Maine is set to audit Wal-Mart, and put the scandal of the corporation's shabby treatment of its employees to rest. By Lance Tapley.
Our correspondent Rick Wormwood was at the University of Memphis when the infamous child murders at Robin Hood Hills, in West Memphis, Arkansas, happened. He recalls the panic and furor that gripped the area.
If you haven't heard of MySpace yet, you're missing out on what 22 million people already know: collecting friends like baseball cards is cool! By Camille Dodero.
Mike Miliard went to Boston's TD Banknorth Garden for a motivational seminar. What he got was a religious revival crossed with a GOP circle jerk. Then again, those two are pretty much the same thing these days, aren't they?
Plus, this just in:
Local beverages Portland beer = good stuff
Theater scene The Bard, laid bare
Local politics The Charge for the At-Large
Working out Slacking off the fat
Politics and Other Mistakes
Bramhall Square
Letters to the editor
Savage Love
Crossword solution
MUSIC
Occasional Phoenix contributor Joe S. Harrington has produced a masterful, 110-page magazine about the local rock scene. Sam Pfeifle reviews issue #1 of Kapital Ink.
PORTopera features homegrown talent, of which there's a surprising abundance. By Becca Dewan.
The only thing cooler than rock music is a bunch of old rockers talking about rock music, which is exactly what you'll get in two new oral histories available in book stores now. By James Parker.
Joe Pernice finds his prettier side on Discover a Lovelier You. By Eliot Wilder.
Plus, Sibilance.
Also, short reviews of:
GRAVY TRAIN!!!! ARE YOU WIGGLIN?
PELICAN THE FIRE IN OUR THROATS WILL BECKON THE THAW
PETER RAUHOFER LIVE @ ROXY, VOL. 4
BRIAN SETZER ROCKABILLY RIOT VOL. 1: A TRIBUTE TO SUN RECORDS
MARIA TAYLOR 11:11
BJÖRN WENNÅS STATIC
FILM
Two amazing things happen in this week's top film story: Peter Keough likes a Michael Bay movie, and pans a Richard Linklater film. Black is white! Up is down!
Short reviews of:
THE DEVIL’S REJECTS
HUSTLE & FLOW
THEATER
The hipsters in The Miser have a big-time problem with daddy-o. This is exactly why the government developed a miniature version of the A-bomb to drop on beatniks in the 1950s. By Megan Grumbling.
Worth the trip:
Ice Glen and The Wharton One-Acts
DANCE
Worth the trip:
Martha Graham and Chunky Move at the Pillow
ART
Shea Mowat is a dada artist in the Maine woods. Matt Anderson treks on a journey... inward.
BOOKS
Sam Pfeifle isn't sure whether we're supposed to feel pity for author Sean Wilsey, but he's positive that it's nearly impossible to put down Wilsey's memoir Oh, the Glory of It All!
The R. Crumb Handbook is part biography and part retrospective, but one thing's for sure: the legendary underground comic artist is all nuts. By Douglas Wolk.
FOOD
It might not be safe to go back in the water, but there's no reason not to head right into SeaGrass Bistro. By Andy King.
SPECIALS
Best Music Poll 2005
The Best of 2004
Portland Band Guide
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