It Came From Beyond

"I saw my first cadaver when I was about five years old. I saw my first rotting corpse at 10." Now, at 35, Guillermo del Toro is probably the world's most promising horror film director.

"...filming a Spanish-language feature, The Devil's Backbone, a savage ghost story set in an orphanage during the Spanish Civil..."

July 21, 2000 Screens Feature by Cary L. Roberts

WAR: Conflict in the Cubicles

In his latest script, playwright Kirk Lynn sends the Rude Mechanicals off to War, and the result is another Rude Mechs show that is conceptual and cryptic, literary and obscure, but also very funny, with the company managing to make genuinely original observations on conflict and escapism in the energetic realm of absurdist comedy.

"...between Xeroxing her band flyers) falls for the fax machine ghost, a former Union boss only she can see...."

June 16, 2000 Arts Review by Ada Calhoun

Complete Freedom

A profile of Bad Livers banjo player Danny Barnes

"...won't do what you tell me." Rage against the machine. Anarchy...."

Nov. 5, 1999 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

BIS: Social Dancing

"...these bright young things when they conjure up the ghost of Manchester past on "Action and Drama"? Despite Bis'..."

Sept. 10, 1999 Music Review by Greg Beets

1999 SXSW Music Festival

"...Fantastic Plastic Machines THE FRIGGS: This Camden, N.J.-bred cadre of sneering young..."

March 19, 1999 Music Feature

Record Reviews

Ani Difranco

"...it a doozy. Blaow! Iron Lung, one of this Ghost Rider's myriad noms de rap, blazes like Jonathan for..."

Feb. 5, 1999 Music Review

Live Shots

"...was cheering and jockeying for rounds on the trivia machine in the Elbow Room. There was goodwill and conviviality..."

Jan. 29, 1999 Music Feature

Live Shots

"...bassline, and a sudden whiff of twang -- the ghost of Jimmie Rodgers rattling his chains. Country-rock, then, if..."

Jan. 15, 1999 Music Feature

Box Sets

Herbie Hancock

"...introspective tone of "The Streets of Philadelphia" and The Ghost of Tom Joad, beautifully represented here on part of..."

Dec. 11, 1998 Music Feature

Moon-Shaped Panties & the Saint of White Trash

The Late Lucinda Williams

"...maniacal laugh, then walks quickly to a silly Halloween ghost hanging by the stairs and tugs it, making it..."

Oct. 23, 1998 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Day Trips

"...table's felt is faded and marked and the pinball machine doesn't work. Still, the drinks are cold and the..."

Oct. 9, 1998 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

SXSW Record Reviews

"...Vampo," "End on Tick Tock." Were Lawrence Welk's bubble machine to come to life and strike out on a..."

March 6, 1998 Music Review

Scanlines

Valley of the Dolls

"...club in an un-initiation rite involving a giant spanking machine where her previous subordinates get a crack at kicking..."

Feb. 13, 1998 Screens Feature

Record Reviews

"...For those who know and love the former Soft Machine skin beater, this is not news; twisted words suit..."

Feb. 6, 1998 Music Review

Fifty-Two

"...as they say. Pop culture is an enormous omnipresent machine for tantalizing and tricking this Young One within. The..."

Nov. 21, 1997 Column by Michael Ventura

Music Reviews

"...themselves and everything about them, setting up a wrecking machine assault as a backdrop for lead spectacle Darby Crash's..."

Sept. 20, 1996 Music Feature

Live Shots

"...and the band. Perhaps as a concession to the ghost of Pete Townsend's eardrums, Cure `96 seemed a bit..."

Aug. 30, 1996 Music Feature

So, Where Were the Vampires in Before Sunrise?

"...universal jeers and disapproving messages on Miles Zuniga's answering machine. Hey, Miles, since Rhythm Child broke up recently, maybe..."

Jan. 19, 1996 Music Column

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