Review: All the King’s Men

Review: All the King’s Men
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All the King’s Men Steve Zaillian Columbia Pictures Street: 12.06.2006 Based on Robert Warren’s book which is based upon the life of Louisiana politician Huey Long All the King’s Men is a well executed but sometimes overdone vehicle for Sean Penn to flex his southern diction as Willie Stark. The film follows Stark from a

Review: 1966 World Tour

Review: 1966 World Tour
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1966 World Tour Joel Gilbert Highway 61 Entertainment Street: 06.06.2006   From the look of the cover you might think this movie is about Bob Dylan’s 1966 world tour. You might think that you’re going to see and hear some of the tour or even some of Bob Dylan. You might expect an interesting glimpse

Review: Marvel Comic Book Creator

Review: Marvel Comic Book Creator
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Marvel Comic Book Creator Planetwide Games Reviewed On: PC Street: 11.2006 I can’t tell you how many times I have cursed my un-artistic hands and their complete lack of cool comic-book creating abilities. Let’s face it, my life is in need of some spicing up and what better way to embellish it than to cast myself

Review: Lost Planet

Review: Lost Planet
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Lost Planet Capcom Reviewed On: Xbox 360 Street: 01.07 The console wars are raging which means good news for us gamers. Lost Planet is the latest from Capcom, one of the premier game developers on the planet. Not only does Capcom deliver with Lost Planet but they have also elevated the action shooter to another

Review: Killzone: Liberation

Review: Killzone: Liberation
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Killzone: Liberation Guerrilla/SCEA Reviewed On: PSP Street: 11-06 It’s hard to say what exactly it is that makes Killzone so much fun to play. The graphics are just above average, the game play can be frustrating and the camera angles actually make some parts of the game much harder than they should be. But nevertheless

Review: Josef Albers: To Open Eyes: The Bauhaus, Black Mountain and Yale

Review: Josef Albers: To Open Eyes: The Bauhaus, Black Mountain...
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Josef Albers: To Open Eyes: The Bauhaus, Black Mountain and Yale Frederick A. Horowitz and Brenda Danilowitz Phaidon Press Street: 11.02 Wow … to say the least. Phaidon Press has done it again in producing a book that not only is stunningly graphic and visual but has the academic content to back up such a

Review: Code Version 2.0

Review: Code Version 2.0
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Code Version 2.0 Lawrence Lessig Basic Books Street: 12.12.06 The Internet is huge now; millions of people go online everyday, interact and download myriads of files from games, to word files to music. But what governs this “virtual world” and should it be governed at all? Lawrence Lessig tackles what regulates the Internet, how it

Review: Cult Rock Posters

Review: Cult Rock Posters
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Cult Rock Posters Roger Crimlis and Alwyn W. Turner Billboard Books Street: 10.06.06 Self-appointed Knight of Glam, Bryan Ferry, once said, “Something not only has to sound good, but also has to feel good and look good.” This is indeed true of most musical fads, but particularly anyone involved in the glam, punk and new-wave

Review: Don’t Quit Your Day Job! Adventures for the Working Stiff

Review: Don’t Quit Your Day Job! Adventures for the Working...
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Don’t Quit Your Day Job! Adventures for the Working Stiff Jay Toberman IUniverse Street: 01.01 Ever since Toberman went on a floozy trip through the stretches of Canada, he has been seeking “adventure” and, unfortunately, writing about it. Recollections of his sparse international trips are bleak journal-styled accounts that go into as much detail and

Review: Empire of Dirt: The Aesthetics and Rituals of British Indie Music

Review: Empire of Dirt: The Aesthetics and Rituals of British...
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Empire of Dirt: The Aesthetics and Rituals of British Indie Music Wendy Fonarow Wesleyn University Press Street: 07.22 Dr. Fonarow exemplifies everything it means to be an academic in the modern world: overthought-out arguments, a compulsive desire to explain everything and the technicality of book learning to back it up. But instead of giving a