Film Review: Terrence Malick’s Tree of Life
Film snob/contributing writer, Logan Green, breaks down Terrance Mallick’s summer art house film, Tree of Life.
Kickoff: Dinner and Drive-In
In the 2.5 years I’ve spent in Northern California the possibility that Winters and it’s surrounding areas housed a particularly ambitious culinary scene did not seem possible. So when the welcoming handshake was extended while walking up the tree lined path from the car to the farmhouse, it was apparent that even if the [...]
Q&A: Sean Stout of TerrorEyes.TV
Like his Tera Melos buddies, Sean Stout, is a native of Sacramento with a love of music and video making. He and Zach Hill made the best video ever to represent the general malaise of life in the River City. We ask him some questions. You read the answers.
I Need a Hamburger and Glass of Wine
Sluggish. Sleepy. Stuck-in-a-rut. The Northern Hemisphere is awakening from its seasonal slumber but springing from sleep is the last thing my body wants to do. Solution? The one I’ve considered is a ten day green cleanse. The variations of which are endless but the point of this one is to cut out all ‘toxins’ and [...]
Capital Beer Festival: The Highland Cherry Ale. Good.
The first-ever Capital Beer Festival took place at Cal Expo this past weekend (March 5th & 6th). FLABmag was on hand to sample the goods.
You Don’t Choose Your Food; Steve Jobs Chooses For You.
The Daily Meal has compiled a list of ‘America’s 50 Most Powerful People in Food’. You won’t believe who’s at the top!
Herland: A Review
Gilman uses the land as a metaphor for the female body as well as the domesticity to which women have oft been assigned. Reassigning land especially highlights the specious reasoning behind labeling women’s sphere as ‘natural’ instead of merely conventional. Interestingly the novel’s weaknesses betray the very conditions of alterity under which the author labored.
5 Weeks in Colombia
Flab contributor, Joh Hurtado, traveled through Colombia for five weeks this summer. This is his report.
Film: The Kids Are Alright, 2010
Given the glowing political conversation surrounding director Lisa Cholodenko’s gay family portrait, The Kids Are All Right, I expected a tight little PSA-portrait of a happy, healthy lesbian couple raising a family rather than an actual film. Instead, what I found was a layered, interesting story of an unconventional family upended by the arrival of [...]
Review: Byrne’s Book – Bicycle Diaries
…There is a minimum of proselytizing in Bicycle Diaries, something not easily said about much of today’s bicycle community.
Jenna Jameson: This Woman’s Worth
Ugh. Are you kidding me. You actually read that? Yep. But not for the pictures. Seriously.
Opera 101 with Mezzo-Soprano Lindsey Falduto
Opera explained by someone who knows: A singer who hates attending operas.
Red Box: Sunshine Cleaning 2008
Mid week boredom leads to a Red Box Rental: Read why you should rent this movie or not….
Review: La Mission
In La Missiòn a Latino father discovers his only son is a homosexual. All sorts a tele-novela style drama ensues.
Red Box: The Night Buffalo 2007
Not even languorous shots of Diego Luna’s pinga, nor the Mars Volta soundtrack can save this movie from treacledom.
Bustelo: a short story in prose
Poetry is a dying and mostly boring art. However, in the hands of some it can be, at least, an interesting read.
Red Box: I Love You Man 2009
Director: John Hamberg Starring: Paul Rudd, Jason Segal, Rashida Jones Plot Summary Courtesy imdb.com: Friendless Peter Klaven goes on a series of man-dates to find a Best Man for his wedding. But when his insta-bond with his new B.F.F. puts a strain on his relationship with his fiancée, can the trio learn to live happily [...]
Red Box: Revolutionizing the Weekend Movie Night
McDonald’s finds yet another way into your Weekend Date Night.
The Deceptive Inclusivity of Glee
Troy Patterson of Slate, who writes that “(a)t its best, Glee is not just entertaining but elating, dramatizing Breakfast Club-quality teen angst with the aid of tight production numbers covering new and classic popular songs.” While this may be true, it misses what I consider to be a much larger and more culturally salient point, which is that the show is a mess of misogyny and concealed homophobia that makes use of cheap racial and ethnic stereotypes for laughs.
