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A Pulizter winner about a steakhouse: http://www.pulitzer.org/year/2007/criticism/works/gold02.html
I found this to be interesting due to the fact that I am a Tulsa Native and thought the vision 2025 to be a great improvement to Tulsa attractions. However the buttheads in Broken Arrow thought otherwise.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4182/is_20071010/ai_n21047526/pg_1
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/28/AR2008012802634.html
Great band. Good, honest, leveled writing and critique. I think it is difficult to write in an unpretentious way about a pretentious band, but Alison Stewart has managed to do this.
http://www.pulitzer.org/year/2005/criticism/works/morgenstern7.html
this guy won a pulitzer for movie criticism, so he seems like a good place to start. he reviews the incredibles here, and as any sane person, he thought it was really good.
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/21226-kid-a
i had to include this as well, because its the most ridiculous review i've ever seen. this writer is insane. i wanted to say this was the one i liked, but i wouldn't be able to do that with a straight face.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/20/books/review/Fugard-t.html
I thought this was a good review about a book that sounded interesting.
Ben, I'm "weeping in awe" at the horrific nature of your second article.
This is an article by Pulitzer winner Joe Morgenstern, on Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. It's a movie that I really like, and I think his review is objective and observant.
http://online.wsj.com/public/resources
/documents/SB107965692804159910.htm
Also, Ben, the Pitchfork Media article you posted is one of the most ridiculous, over-the-top reviews I've ever read. And I really love Radiohead.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/15/arts/design/15wack.html?scp=1&sq=critique&st=nyt
I thought this article was pretty good. I thought it could have used a little more supporting detail about the actual event but other than that I think it did a good job.
http://www.riverfronttimes.com/2007-12-19/culture/wicked-good-mdash-or-wicked-better/
This article is about the company that performed Wicked at the Fox Theatre in St. Louis this past December. I found it very interesting because this very topic was actually discussed among musical-goers. I heard several times even before I saw this production that the one in 2005 was better... and I agree that certain characters could have been better.
Brittany, your article is really good and it is something different that isn't heard of all that often. Feminism normally has a negative connotation, but this article puts a positive spin on it.
I thought this was an intereting movie criticism because it chose a side that was by far in the minority. The side? A thumbs down to The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. I love this movie, and so did 97% of critics, accoding to rottentomoatoes.com. Hunter does bring up very good points though. I'm glad I didn't read this when it came out, it might have ruined the film for me.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A64339-2002Dec16?language=printer
http://www.enotes.com/twentieth-century-criticism/lord-rings-j-r-r-tolkien
I like this review because it analyzes the conflicts of the novels in the context of the two World Wars, with input from Tolkien himself.
Ben, where did you manage to find that second article? I especially like the part about watching a stillborn play in the afterlife on IMAX. That was... interesting.
I thought this critique was well written because the writer used words that created a mental picture.
Home of the Porno Burrito
But the true object of desire at El Atacor #11 is the awesome potato taco
By JONATHAN GOLD
Tacos de papas—glorious, greasy excess. Photo by Anne Fishbein Today’s subject: the potato taco or, to be more specific, the wonderment of civilization that is the potato taco at El Atacor #11, a taquería chain’s grungy outpost on the fringes of Glassell Park. You have, no doubt, tasted a potato taco, perhaps the basic model of the starch bomb tricked out with chopped onion and a bit of salsa, or perhaps one of the fancy examples of the breed, cooked with the roasted-chile mixture called rajas or embellished with all manner of sautéed vegetables.
On most taquería menus, tacos de papas are what you eat when you happen to be a vegetarian yoked to a companion whose needs include drippy hunks of steamed cow’s intestine, or when the severity of your hangover precludes even a token three or four tacos made with turtle or spicy pork al pastor. As with the original po’ boy sandwich in New Orleans, which was stuffed with stale French fries and sold to striking newsboys whose poverty drove even the cheapest meat sandwich out of reach, the potato taco is inexpensive and filling, engineered to stave off hunger for just a while longer. Nobody has ever driven across town for a potato taco, no matter how artfully combined with sautéed zucchini or golden achiote.
I was tipped off to El Atacor #11 by an unsigned e-mail a couple of months ago, a message instructing me to Google the phrase “porno burrito.” I did. A healthy percentage of the results pointed toward the restaurant. The potato taco may be El Atacor’s enduring glory, but its fame in the online world comes mostly from its Super Burrito, a foil-wrapped construction the size and girth of your forearm, which drapes over a paper plate like a giant, oozing sea cucumber or, perhaps more to the point, like an appendage of John Holmes. It is impossible to look at a Super Burrito without marveling at the flaccid, masculine mass of the thing. It is probably even harder to bite into it without laughing. (There are mock-porn videos on YouTube of what I assume is the Super Burrito being sensuously consumed, tortillas stretched with firm, white teeth, the distended tube making its way down any number of eager throats.) The Super Burrito, a standard composition of beans, rice, sour cream, guacamole, meat, lettuce, etc., is a formidable item of food and a proper subject of veneration, but it may be more admirable as an object than as an actual burrito.
Porno addict? Photo by Anne Fishbein The chokingly fragrant menudo leaves no doubt as to the part of the animal from which the meat was excavated — menudo may be L.A.’s favorite hangover remedy, but it is hard to imagine confronting this menudo on a stomach trembly with drink. The tacos made with carne asada, beef tongue, carnitas, buche and such are perfectly fine, but lack the particular energy snap that marks the very best tacos. (They are cheap, though: Family packs include 25 tacos for about $20.)
The tacos de papas at El Atacor #11, however, are different beasts entirely: thin corn tortillas folded around bland spoonfuls of mashed spuds and fried to an indelicate, shattering crunch. The barely seasoned potatoes exist basically as a smooth, unctuous substance that oozes out of the tacos with the deliberate grace of molten lava. The glorious stink of hot grease and toasted corn subsumes any subtle, earthy hint of potato, and tacos de papas evaporate so quickly that you are thankful they come 10 to an order, slicked with cream and thin taquería guacamole, piled together in a foam takeout container like so many lunch-truck taquitos. Ten tacos de papas may seem like an excessive quantity, and you could probably share an order if you were in the mood, but I have seen families of five sit down to five separate orders, 50 tacos in all, and afterward there wasn’t a crumb or a spatter of sauce to be seen.
El Atacor #11, 2622 N. Figueroa Ave., Los Angeles, (323) 441-8477. Open 7 a.m. to 4 a.m., seven days. Beer 10 a.m.–10 p.m. only. Takeout. Street parking. Cash only. Lunch or dinner for two, food only, $7-$8. Recommended dish: tacos de papas. Also at El Atacor #8, 6506 Whittier Blvd., East L.A., (323) 832-9263.
Jess, I liked the review about Vampire Weekend as well. Stewart made unique comparisons about the band's style of music and successfully avoided cliches, which made this a good review.
http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/
access/778675651.html?dids=778675651:778675651&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Jan+14%2C+2005&author=Robin+Givhan&pub=The+Washington+Post&edition=&
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Sanctuary%3B+In+%27Hotel+Rwanda%2C%
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This is a Pulitzer winner for a criticism about Hotel Rwanda. The author shows how Cheadle's costumes act as a "security blanket" for his character. It's an interesting evaluation/analysis of the movie.
And I really enjoyed the article Ben found about the Incredibles. I thought the author did a great job showing exactly why the movie was great, and giving insights on each of the main characters. He also realized one of the greatest aspects of most Disney movies, being that they are applicable to and enjoyable for all ages.
http://www.filmsite.org/onth.html
This a critical review of Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront. It's one of my favorite films. Good in-depth writing here...
I thought this critique was interesting since it was about an Australian artist..
http://www.johndahlsen.com/reviews.html
wait that was emily pickens that commented..not angela..dont really know why that was..
http://www.haberarts.com/myintro.htm
John Haber reviews the Chelsea Art Museum...
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