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Date:
06/24/2011Category:
· Writing » News Coverage » SF Weekly
· Writing » Topic » miscView article as originally published Get ready to dream along with the National Association of City Transportation Officials. Oh, sure, you may think that the fantasies of municipal infrastructure bureaucrats are boring. But allow us to shatter your misconceptions with just five words: Two-Stage Turn Queue Boxes. Try to remain calm. NACTO is a sort of national clearinghouse for transportation visionaries in major cities. While state agencies are united under a slow-moving dinosaur called the... [Read more...]
Date:
12/02/2010Category:
· Writing » News Coverage » Poynter
· Writing » Topic » miscView article as originally published Could 2011 be journalism's Year of Context? A showcase of emerging news technology in San Francisco highlighted four start-ups that specialize in placing content where it makes the most sense. The show-and-tell was hosted by Hacks/Hackers, an informal group of journalists and coders who blur the boundaries between news and technology. Attended by about 50 professionals, the start-ups sought to streamline the movement of information from the Web to apps,... [Read more...]
Date:
11/11/2010Category:
· Writing » News Coverage » Public Press
· Writing » Topic » miscView article as originally published You have 85 acres on the waterfront and two billion dollars ... what would you build? A once-bustling industrial site that has fallen into decay on San Francisco's waterfront, Pier 70 is facing a dramatic transformation. And in the next year, the Port of San Francisco will ask the public for feedback on as-yet unwritten development plans. The Port has been keen to redevelop the site for years. Though the... [Read more...]
Date:
09/23/2010Category:
· Writing » News Coverage » Poynter
· Writing » Topic » miscView article as originally published Won't somebody please think of the children? Well, OK, maybe not the children -- but young people, at least. That's just what Christopher Sopher has done with his research project, "Younger Thinking." It's a meta-analysis of available data about the relationship between the news industry and its up-and-coming consumers. Sopher, a senior studying public policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, can relate to much of his... [Read more...]
Date:
08/17/2010Category:
· Writing » News Coverage » Poynter
· Writing » Topic » miscView article as originally published There's a brand new videographer at KGO-TV in San Francisco: you.As part of its ongoing "uReport" effort to solicit user-submitted content, the ABC station is now working directly with YouTube and taking advantage of its YouTube Direct technology, which lets news sites request, review and re-broadcast user-generated videos. The experimental partnership, which launched in late July, is aimed at marrying the editorial acumen of a traditional newsroom with the user-generated immediacy... [Read more...]
Date:
08/02/2010Category:
· Writing » News Coverage » Poynter
· Writing » Topic » miscView article as originally published Although many news organizations know they should incorporate Facebook into their social media strategies, so far they've had to rely on independent consultants to tell them what works. This week, however, Facebook outlined best practices on how news organizations can connect with the site's enormous and highly engaged user base. The findings are the result of a several-month long study by an internal team that examined Facebook usage at major... [Read more...]
Date:
06/27/2010Category:
· Writing » News Coverage » Poynter
· Writing » Topic » miscView article as originally published Tom Tague isn't content to let an article just be an article. "How do I take a chunk of text," he asked, "and turn it into a chunk of data?"He was speaking Thursday night at a panel discussion hosted by Hacks/Hackers, a San Francisco-based group that bridges the worlds of journalism and engineering. Coinciding with the 2010 Semantic Technology Conference, Thursday's presentation dealt with the Web's evolution from a tangle... [Read more...]
Date:
06/07/2010Category:
· Writing » News Coverage » The San Francisco Appeal
· Writing » Topic » miscView article as originally published The results are in! In collaboration with Spot.us, we surveyed 135 prominent local politicians and political organizations to find out how they want to you vote, and the consensus on the ballot propositions is: yes, no, yes, no, no, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. (Don't remember what the props are? Here's your official voter's info pamphlet.) But that doesn't mean, obviously, that you SHOULD vote that way. Instead,... [Read more...]
Date:
05/28/2010Category:
· Writing » News Coverage » Poynter
· Writing » Topic » miscView article as originally published At a conference last weekend for developers of iPad news apps, organizer Burt Herman posed an unexpected question: "How can we make news more like finger-painting?" he asked.He was responding to a point made by Jennifer Bove of Kicker Studio, a product-design firm. She had just pointed out how satisfying it is to manipulate media on the iPad, comparing it to painting. "It's as close as we can get to... [Read more...]
Date:
05/18/2010Category:
· Writing » News Coverage » The San Francisco Appeal
· Writing » Topic » miscView article as originally published Boy oh boy, the Bay Citizen sure has put online writers in an interesting position. Here's the abbreviated version: BC is a non-profit news startup, flush with a $5 million investment from fiscal celebrity Warren Hellman. They're launching a Bay-Area-wide news site on May 26th, and they need content. So they held a meeting last Friday where they told the roughly 40 assembled independent writers that any time those writers... [Read more...]
Date:
04/30/2010Category:
· Writing » News Coverage » NBC Bay Area
· Writing » Topic » miscView article as originally published Thanks to pressure from local Asian community leaders, Muni and the SFPD may be stepping up safety on local buses and trains. People using the transit system have been involved in a series of recent high-profile violent attacks, specifically against Asian commuters. The most recent ugly incident came last week when two teens beat an elderly Asian man to death in Oakland. Previously, a group of teens threw a... [Read more...]
Date:
04/30/2010Category:
· Writing » News Coverage » NBC Bay Area
· Writing » Topic » miscView article as originally published Getty Images Everyone should have a career to fall back on. For Santa Rosa police officer Robert Starling, that career was armored car robber. In his ongoing trial, Starling described how his police training helped him to plan successful heists. Knowing the armored car company's policy for shootouts enabled him to select an optimal weapon. His knowledge of police procedure allowed him to distract cops with phony 911 calls.... [Read more...]
Date:
04/30/2010Category:
· Writing » News Coverage » NBC Bay Area
· Writing » Topic » miscView article as originally published Mount Pleasant High School has a friend in Public Radio International's Ira Glass. This weekend, Glass devoted a segment on his show "This American Life" to a takedown of the claims made in Steve Poizner's book, "Mount Pleasant." In the book, Poizner claimed that the school was rough, dangerous, and full of under-achievers. Poizner also suggested that the school was known for its high rates of pregnancy -- while... [Read more...]
Date:
04/29/2010Category:
· Writing » News Coverage » NBC Bay Area
· Writing » Topic » miscView article as originally published Nancy Pelosi's looking pretty good for a woman who celebrated her 70th birthday last month. A little too good, according to the Washington Examiner. Pelosi appeared on the cover of Capitol File this month, looking awfully youthful. What's her secret? Either she's a vampire, or she's received the airbrush treatment that's standard practice for any high-profile public figure. We're guessing it's the latter. Pelosi's defenders point out that The... [Read more...]
Date:
03/31/2010Category:
· Writing » News Coverage » NBC Bay Area
· Writing » Topic » miscView article as originally published Getty Images eBay CEO Meg Whitman wants to put the brakes on a "buy it now" button for health care. The conservative Republican gubernatorial candidate said Tuesday that she'd like the California Attorney General to sue to block the health care reform bill. For his part, the California Attorney General is unlikely to find her argument persuasive. Jerry Brown -- the likely Democratic contender against Whitman in the governor's... [Read more...]
Date:
02/22/2010Category:
· Writing » Tutorial » Photojojo
· Writing » Topic » miscView article as originally published Extra photos for bloggers: 1, 2 We've seen slow versions of everything lately: slow food, slow travel, slow shopping, slow dentistry. (We might've made one of those up.) But have you tried slow photography? It's like a yoga class for your camera. Long conversations with subjects, patient exposures, and delicate macros will lend your photos a new calmness and longevity -- so vital in these rush-rush go-go slam-crash rock-and-roll... [Read more...]
Date:
02/01/2010Category:
· Writing » News Coverage » SF Weekly
· Writing » Topic » miscView article as originally published Fact: the members of the Board of Supervisors meet to talk about governing and such at least once a week. Really! Will this finally be the week that they accomplish something? Probably not, but we salute their undying optimism. Keep plugging away, noble supervisors! You'll get the hang of it one of these days. Highlights of this week's meetings: advice for felons, Strangelovian restrictions on smoking, and ending the inexplicable... [Read more...]
Date:
01/25/2010Category:
· Writing » Tutorial » Photojojo
· Writing » Tutorial
· Writing » Topic » miscView article as originally published A great philosopher once told us, "first, you must first learn to focus without focusing." Or maybe it was our optometrist. Whatever. It's deep. That transcendental magic is at the heart of Freelensing, a photographic process that begins with the removal of your lens. Freelensers simply hold unattached lenses in front their camera's exposed sensor, and delicately tilt it until focus emerges. Hand-manipulating a lens will reinvent your focal... [Read more...]
Date:
01/04/2010Category:
· Writing » News Coverage » The San Francisco Appeal
· Writing » Topic » miscView article as originally published Numerous bus lines face further cutbacks and possible elimination later this year, according to the SF Appeal's analysis of data recently supplied by Muni as part of its Transit Effectiveness Project. Lines most at-risk include the 24-Divisadero, the 28-19th Ave, the 28L-19th Ave Limited, and the 23-Monterey. Muni's always been strapped for funds, but in the past decade they've faced unprecedented budget shortfalls and rapidly escalating fare inflation. Fares... [Read more...]
Date:
10/30/2009Category:
· Writing » News Coverage » The San Francisco Appeal
· Writing » Topic » miscView article as originally published Voting! Just like knocking on wood, rubbing a lucky penny, or wearing pants, it's one of those superstitious acts that somehow makes us feel safer despite the lack of any discernible benefit. Voting isn't easy, of course; because only jerks care about political news, most of us have no idea what's on the ballot or how we should vote. Making decisions is hard -- and that's why endorsements and... [Read more...]
Date:
10/27/2009Category:
· Writing » Reviews » Film
· Writing » Topic » miscView article as originally published "It starts from a love of the cute and furry animals," explained filmmaker Amy Do, director of Docfest's Rabbit Fever. "Kids start with them as pets, and it just keeps growing." The Appeal chatted with Amy before the premier of her documentary Sunday night at the Roxie, and asked her the same question that absolutely everyone must: why on Earth have you made a movie about competitive teenage rabbit breeding?... [Read more...]
Date:
09/04/2009Category:
· Writing » News Coverage » NBC Bay Area
· Writing » Topic » miscView article as originally published What does it mean that Dick Costolo is Twitter's new COO? Observers are hopeful that Costolo will transform the service into something useful and appealling. Before coming to Twitter, he was the CEO of Feedburner, a service that allows websites to syndicate content and track subscribers -- sort of like a Nielsen rating for websites' news feeds. Those tools to measure readership and reach are exactly what Twitter lacks. Messages... [Read more...]
Date:
09/03/2009Category:
· Writing » News Coverage » NBC Bay Area
· Writing » Topic » miscView article as originally published San Francisco's Mission District has entered a sort of Comic Art Renaissance lately, with last spring's opening of Caffeinated Comics and yesterday's launch of Mission: Comics and Art near 20th and Mission. Mission: Comics and Art is the brainchild of Leef Smith, a longtime comic reader and Mission resident. Back in October, his employer did him the favor of releasing him from wage slavery; and since his neighborhood had languished... [Read more...]
Date:
09/03/2009Category:
· Writing » News Coverage » NBC Bay Area
· Writing » Topic » miscView article as originally published If the popularity contest between California's gubernatorial candidates is to be judged by Twitter followers, Gavin Newsom is beating Jerry Brown, with 994,857 versus 756,665 followers. Both are miles ahead of conservative candidate Meg Whitman's 3,093. And they all face stiff competition from the man they're trying to replace: Current governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has an army of 1,032,355. If you were to compare these numbers to the number of followers boasted by celebrities, Gavin... [Read more...]
Date:
09/02/2009Category:
· Writing » News Coverage » NBC Bay Area
· Writing » Topic » miscView article as originally published It's been a bumpy ride for Carly Fiorina, the former CEO of Hewlett-Packard who's planning to run against Barbara Boxer for her Senate seat in California. First there were questions about whether a company she claimed to run actually existed; then there were issues about her voting record -- or lack thereof -- and now it's emerged that under her leadership and despite a trade embargo, HP somehow found a... [Read more...]
Date:
09/02/2009Category:
· Writing » News Coverage » NBC Bay Area
· Writing » Op-Ed » Urban Planning
· Writing » Topic » miscView article as originally published Recent reports that San Francisco's Muni is "more reliable than ever" are a real headscratcher to anyone who was caught in Monday's subway meltdown. Despite Muni trapping passengers with no explanation on Monday, Gavin Newsom's mayoral office/gubernatorial campaign just sent out a press release touting the agency's on-time performance. How could the Gavinator be so out of touch? Maybe it's because Muni's keeping the mayor's office in the dark,... [Read more...]
Date:
09/01/2009Category:
· Writing » News Coverage » NBC Bay Area
· Writing » Topic » miscView article as originally published Good news for the idle youth of Los Gatos: the city is in the process of decriminalizing an activty known, thrillingly, as "ball playing in the streets." The law, first enacted in the 1880s, prohibited Los Gatonians from throwing, catching, or striking a ball on a public thoroughfare. It may not be California's strangest law: according to one compilation of anachronistic orginances, in Los Angeles it's illegal to hunt for... [Read more...]
Date:
08/31/2009Category:
· Writing » Reviews » Comic Books
· Writing » Topic » miscView article as originally published It wasn't really fair of us to go to last weekend's Zine Fest looking for comics -- they're not really the same thing, are they? But lately we've had our fill of the sharpies and scotch tape and fervent prose that is intensely personal and therefore almost completely incomprehensible. So it was with an eye for picture books that we wandered into what is charmingly called "The County Fair Building"... [Read more...]
Date:
08/14/2009Category:
· Writing » Interview
· Writing » Topic » miscView article as originally published Feeling chipper? Well, we'll soon take care of that! Local artist Lev Yilmaz has perfected the craft of gloom in his comics and videos; he has a new book out, and he's presenting a dramatic reading tonight and tomorrow. We've been fans since before his work started appearing on SFist, so we're delighted to have an opportunity to interview him. Or at least, we'll try to be delighted. It's... [Read more...]
Date:
07/24/2009Category:
· Writing » News Coverage » The San Francisco Appeal
· Writing » Topic » miscView article as originally published Clean is the new filthy! This Sunday, menaced by the Newsom administration's war on fun, Up Your Alley has had to clean up their act a bit, lest they suffer the same cruel punishment as Halloween. So, new rule: NO LEWD BEHAVIOR. That means exposed sexing is a definite no-no; expulsion of bodily fluids is verboten; and nudity is, at best, iffy. But just because you can't have sex in... [Read more...]
Date:
07/15/2009Category:
· Writing » News Coverage » Curbed
· Writing » Op-Ed » Urban Planning
· Writing » Topic » miscNo big surprise: the great new pedestrian plaza at Market and Castro has been extended for four more months. Well of course. Streetsblog reports "surprise and pleasure at how well the plaza is functioning" but who the hell is surprised that people would rather have a nice sit-down than dodge cars amongst baffling traffic lights? The conversation is now turning to making the plaza permanent -- it's still a... [Read more...]
Date:
06/26/2009Category:
· Writing » Interview
· Writing » Topic » miscView article as originally published If you do not fall completely under the spell of Jeffery and Cole Casserole upon your very first viewing, then we have nothing to discuss. The show stars 2 giddy young lads in a NYC apartment, furiously bombarding a webcam with comedy and, well, that's it. And we love it. "It's recession TV," Jeffery Self, one of the show's stars, told us when we reached him by phone. That's... [Read more...]
Date:
05/18/2009Category:
· Writing » News Coverage » The San Francisco Appeal
· Writing » Topic » miscView article as originally published Because Nate Silver won't respond to the saucy love letters we keep sending him, we've had to resort to this to get his attention: a statistical analysis of endorsements for Tuesday's election. (BTW: There's an election on Tuesday.) We combed through every major endorsement we could find -- about seventy -- and charted out who was saying yes and who was saying no. We counted newspapers like the LA Times... [Read more...]
Date:
02/08/2008Category:
· Writing » Op-Ed
· Writing » News Coverage » SFist
· Writing » Op-Ed » Urban Planning
· Writing » Topic » miscView article as originally published Well, whaddya know. No sooner did we lavish praise upon the SF County Transportation Authority than Nat Ford, head of Muni, decided that he might be interested in committing a hostile takeover of the SFCTA... thereby making the TA as flawless as Muni. Good idea! If our agency was melting down, and there was another one making us look bad, we might want to buy it and run it... [Read more...]
Date:
08/17/2007Category:
· Writing » News Coverage » SFist
· Writing » Topic » miscView article as originally published Update: See Paul's comment below about why they had to do what they did, and what they're doing about it. Are there quiet, law-abiding people on Sixth Street? Sure, but it's hard to stand out when your neighborhood looks like something out of Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome -- take a walk down 6th, especially at night, and you'll find yourself surrounded by brawls, the mentally ill, drug deals, screaming... [Read more...]
Date:
06/29/2007Category:
· Writing » Reviews » Film
· Writing » News Coverage » SFist
· Writing » Topic » miscView article as originally published Whoops, sorry we're so late getting this post up -- we lost our notes and tore up the house before resigning ourselves to the idea that somewhere, someone is going to find a notebook with "the lighter side of rape" scrawled across the first page. That comment refers to Give Piece of Ass a Chance, a new Bruce LaBruce short that preceeded Starrbooty. It's a speculative spoofing of the... [Read more...]
Date:
06/27/2007Category:
· Writing » News Coverage » SFist
· Writing » Op-Ed » Urban Planning
· Writing » Topic » miscView article as originally published Say hello to your new next door neighbor: a parking garage. Petitioners are currently collecting signatures for a "build more parking" petition, but the terms are insane: it wouldn't just allow developers to install big garages, it would require that all new homes build on extra parking, at the expense of living space. Require! As in, the government says that you don't have a choice! More room for cars means... [Read more...]
Date:
05/25/2007Category:
· Writing » Interview
· Writing » Topic » miscView article as originally published Ever since Alberta, the best drink-mixer EVER, vanished from behind the bar at the Orbit Room, we haven't been back. It's been a dark, dry time. But now the bartendress-shaped void in our life has been filled by cocktailsonthefly.tv, Alberta's new webby home! The most important booze-slinger in town is now starring in professionally-shot drink-making tutorials, highlighting her talent for combining fresh fruit and top-notch booze. We're talking about... [Read more...]
Date:
03/22/2007Category:
· Writing » News Coverage » SFist
· Writing » Topic » miscView article as originally published Muni drivers, caught on tape! Again! This time, the driver doesn't come off quite so sympathetically. We caught the 33 home last night after hanging out at a high school cafeteria, and what's this? Not only is driver 1870 flirting with a friend, but she's perched on his headrest and fussing around in his little driver's nook? Our Lois Lane instincts taking over, we whipped out our phone, turned... [Read more...]
Date:
03/16/2007Category:
· Writing » News Coverage » SFist
· Writing » Topic » miscView article as originally published Get ready to go down a transit rabbit hole. Last time we wrote about the crapfest that is 511.org, one of our commenters placed blame on military contractors. So we dusted off our Encyclopedia Brown magnifying glass to see just what's behind one of the noisiest, user-unfriendliest, pedestrian-discouragingest, bicyclist-overlookingest websites in town. The short answer: our local 511.org (just like five-elevens all over the country) is largely a project... [Read more...]
Date:
02/04/2007Category:
· Writing » Reviews » Comic Books
· Writing » Topic » miscView article as originally published How is it that you've never heard of The Ballad of Halo Jones? It's been around for about 20 years, so you have absolutely no excuse for not diving into this unjustifiably unknown sci-fi pleasure. The year is 4950 or so, and life sucks for a group of young women living in a messy unemployment colony called "The Hoop." Mean aliens, dangerous criminals, and inescapable poverty drive some folks to... [Read more...]
Date:
01/26/2007Category:
· Writing » News Coverage » SFist
· Writing » Op-Ed » Urban Planning
· Writing » Topic » miscView article as originally published We don't have anything funny to say about this one -- we're simply at a loss. Rumor had it yesterday that Gavin picked Stuart Sunshine to be his new Deputy Chief of Staff, and now the mayor's Director of Communications Peter Ragone (not to be confused with houseguest John Nelson) has confirmed it. Stuart will be leaving the MTA and moving to the mayor's administration, where he'll be "focusing on... [Read more...]
Date:
10/25/2006Category:
· Writing » Interview
· Writing » Topic » miscView article as originally published When the Party-Party folks started agitating to Dump Dufty, we couldn't wait to see who'd step up to the plate. Who would dare run against a celebrated gay man in the gayest gay district of a city populated entirely by gay homosexual gays? Alix Rosenthal (pictured at right, hovering majestically above the treetops), that's who. Bevan, can you hover majestically? We didn't think so. Alix is an attorney and civil... [Read more...]
Date:
09/29/2006Category:
· Writing » Interview
· Writing » Topic » miscView article as originally published Dust off your dancing shoes, San Francisco! You DO have dancing shoes, don't you? No, your galoshes don't count. Wait, have you been wearing those since Folsom? Eww. Aaaaaaaaanyway, this Saturday, at 8pm on the Van Ness side of City Hall, a gaggle of frolickers plan to converge and dance. (Backup location: Patricia's/Hayes Green.)It's Flashdance Four, a temporary party hosted by local flashmobby gadfly Amandeep Jawa. He brings speakers and... [Read more...]
Date:
08/21/2006Category:
· Writing » Reviews » Comic Books
· Writing » Topic » miscView article as originally published Oh we've got some tough cookies this week, yes sir. Fresh from the macho shelves at Isotope and onto your manly plate come The Boys, about a group of vigilantes taking revenge against reckless superheros; The Savage Brothers, about a team of zombie bounty hunters; and Casanova, which is difficult to interpret but appears to relate to some kind of slick superspying. Let's kick it off with The Savage... [Read more...]
Date:
08/07/2006Category:
· Writing » Reviews » Comic Books
· Writing » Topic » miscView article as originally published Jack is shy and artsy, which isn't helping him with his primary goal: attracting chicks. "Jack and Lucky," by bay-area artist Anthony Hon, chronicles the travails of a lonely, horny 20-something. Oh and also, and this is never explained but somehow doesn't seem all that out of the ordinary, he lives with a giant talking 300-pound cat. Like the talking monkey in Rob Osborne's 1000 Steps to World Domination,... [Read more...]
Date:
07/24/2006Category:
· Writing » Reviews » Comic Books
· Writing » Topic » miscView article as originally published When we're reading comics about hard-boiled female reporters unflinchingly uncovering terrible secrets during a time of war, we don't want to see delicate ladies -- we want to see take-no-prisoners broads. Like the classic plucky Lois Lane, or like trousers-wearing Amy Archer in The Hudsucker Proxy, or like the tenacious Nina Totenburg. The character of Charlotte Hemming, in Ian Edgington and Matt Brooker's Scarlet Traces: The Great Game, does not... [Read more...]
Date:
06/19/2006Category:
· Writing » Reviews » Comic Books
· Writing » Topic » miscView article as originally published You know how it is sometimes to look at photos from the 80s, where it's all cute young cheeks and happy tow-headed promise, and now twenty years later all the kids in the pictures have been worn down by their dreams falling apart and everything they love being taken away? (Or at least, that's how we feel when we listen to Bright Eyes.) So anyway, issue three of Joshua W.... [Read more...]
Date:
05/30/2006Category:
· Writing » Reviews » Comic Books
· Writing » Topic » miscView article as originally published Before we get to this week's comic books, we must first point out that Issue 2 of Kevin McShane's Toupydoops has, as the kids say, hit the stands. (We reviewed Issue 1 a few weeks ago.) This latest installment sees our heros standing in line to get into a club where, it turns out, everybody sucks. Poseurs and floozies and five dollar beers deflate their enthusiasm for Los Angeles, but... [Read more...]
Date:
11/07/2005Category:
· Writing » Reviews » Film
· Writing » Topic » miscView article as originally published We've said it before and we'll say it again: You are all a bunch of weirdos. There was probably no greater message than that to be gleaned from Saturday night's CineKink screenings; that all humans are strange and kinky creatures, and the ones who don't admit it are the weirdoiest of them all. The NYC-based fest flogs itself as a celebration of "alternative sexuality," a term almost as ambiguous and... [Read more...]
Date:
07/29/2005Category:
· Writing » Interview
· Writing » News Coverage » SFist
· Writing » Topic » miscView article as originally published The only thing more shocking than Charo consenting to an interview with SFist is that there are people in the world who don't know who she is. For those philistines, here's a quick recap: Charo is a Spanish superstar of song, dance, and guitar, known for her eccentric catchphrase ("coochi coochi"), wild ensembles, a record-setting number of Loveboat guest appearances, and a speech pattern that is unpredictable, frantic, and... [Read more...]
Date:
06/27/2005Category:
· Writing » Reviews » Film
· Writing » Reviews
· Writing » Topic » miscView article as originally published It's not easy watching somebody die, but Tammy Faye: Death Defying relishes every minute. Slow piano music, swooshy overproduced graphics, gosh-darn-it voiceovers by the lady herself, and crying -- oh God, so much crying -- might leave you thinking that Ms. Messner's the first person to ever need chemotherapy. A mundane follow-up to the incredible The Eyes of Tammy Faye, Death Defying strips away so much of Tammy Faye's... [Read more...]
