Jun 14-20, 2006
Female Doctors Are Changing How Health Care is Delivered; Soccer in the U.S.; How Prepared Is Vermont for a Pandemic? Global Warming by the Numbers
Medicine Women
How an influx of female doctors is changing the way health care is delivered
Johnny Azer, And Everything Like That
(Self-released, CD) In a just world, Burlington rocker Johnny Azer would be a cult superstar. A productive songwriter whose tunes evoke both the grandiosity of U2 and the pathos of Daniel Johnston, Azer is one of a kind. A few years ago, he had a taste of the big time when talk show jokester Jimmy…
Ryan Fauber, Greatest Hits
(Self-released, CD) Burlington singer-songwriter Ryan Fauber is a highly prolific individual. The 10 tunes on Greatest Hits are culled from more than 200 songs written between 1999 and 2005. Many are lengthy, quasi-poetic diatribes about the woeful state of the world. Others are ballads that achieve an intimate soulfulness despite their ragged edges. The result…
Bristol Resident Seth Beck Gears up to Drive From London to Ulan Bator
This summer, Seth Beck will embark on the mother of all road trips. The 29-year-old Bristol resident and three of his friends have registered for the third annual Mongol Rally. The roadrace begins July 22 in London, England. If all goes well, it will end a few weeks and several thousand miles later in Ulan…
News Quirks 06.14.06
Curses, Foiled Again Police in the German town of Paderborn reported that thieves broke into an auto-repair shop and sliced open the roof of a convertible in an attempt to steal it. They left, according to the newspaper Bild am Sonntag, after they couldn’t start the vehicle. Police pointed out that the engine had been…
UNDERWORLD: EVOLUTION**
Kate Beckinsale is back in black for this sequel to the 2003 goth-a-thon about a long-running war between vampires and werewolves. Scott Speedman costars. Len Wiseman directs. (R) Web: http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony_pictures/underworldevolution/
THE THREE BURIALS OF MELQUIADES ESTRADA****
Tommy Lee Jones channels the spirit of Sam Peckinpah in his second film, a Western morality tale and meditation on the themes of friendship and revenge. Starring Barry Pepper and Dwight Yoakam. (121 min, R) Web: http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony/the3burials/
THE HEART IS DECEITFUL ABOVE ALL THINGS*1/2
Asia Argento directs this adaptation of the J.T. Leroy novel exploring the emotional and physical bonds between a neglectful mother and her son. Starring Argento, Jimmy Bennett and Cole Sprouse. (97 min, R) Web: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/movies/trailers/1808716051/1809268202/?http://movies.yaho
THE BOYS OF BARAKA***1/2
Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady direct this documentary focusing on four at-risk 12-year-old boys who in 2002 left the tough streets of inner city Baltimore to attend an experimental boarding school in Kenya. (84 min, NR)
SARAH SILVERMAN: JESUS IS MAGIC***
Silverman has one of the most interesting, inventive and provocative minds in contemporary comedy, as demonstrated in this film documenting her stand-up act. With Bob Odenkirk. Directed by Liam Lynch. (72 min, R)
RUNNING SCARED****
Paul Walker stars in this crime drama from director Wayne (The Cooler) Kramer, the story of a low-level mobster racing against the clock to recover a gun before his bosses or the cops can find it. Chazz Palminteri and Cameron Bright costar. (119 min, R) Web: http://www.apple.com/trailers/newline/running_scared/
GLORY ROAD***
James Gartner directs the inspirational true story of the first all African-American college basketball team. With Josh Lucas as Hall of Fame coach Don Haskins. Derek Luke and Mehcad Brooks costar. (114 min, PG) Web: http://www.apple.com/trailers/disney/glory_road/
FIREWALL**1/2
Harrison Ford and Virginia Madsen are paired in Richard Loncraine’s thriller about a bank-security expert forced to bypass his own computer-security systems when kidnappers take his family hostage. Vince Vieluf and Paul Bettany costar. (105 min, PG-13) Web: http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/firewall/
