Being There

Previous Issues:

Issue 7 - March 2005
	Features Raging Bull: Requiem for a Heavyweight An American In Paris: In Conversation with Ambrosia Parsley of Shivaree To Tell the Truth: Bill Hicks as Comedian, Philosopher, Revolutionary End Of The Century: The Birth of Rock 'n' Roll Radio Turn It Up And Be Something The Phonies Night: Being There Music Award Winners Being There Film Award Nominations Columns Rewind: 1975 Watching The Music: "Come Into My World" Getting to Know R.E.M. Advice To Graduates: T Bone Burnett Couch Festival: No Ordinary Love I Wanna See The Nashville Lights Whatever Happened To Molly Ringwald What Went Wrong: Shall We Dance 9x5 Editorials Aaron Licht Adam M. Anklewicz Adam D. Miller Brighid Mooney Cari Crosby Lisa Hood-Anklewicz Russell Bartholomee Shel Desormeaux Zayne Reeves
Album Reviews 50 Foot Wave - Golden Ocean ... And You Will Know Us By The Trail of the Dead - Worlds Apart Bob Collum and The Welfare Mothers - The Boy Most Likely To... Dalek - Absence Emm Gryner - Songs of Love and Death The Frames - Burn The Maps Jack Logan - Nature's Assembly Line Jess Klein - Strawberry Lover Joel Plaskett - La De Da Lewis Black - Luther Burbank Performing Arts Center Blues Manuel Guajiro Mirabal - Buena Vista Social Club Presents McLemore Avenue - 926 East Sage Francis - A Healthy Distrust Six Organs of Admittance - School of the Flower Soul Coughing - Live Rarities Sparkwood - Jalopy Pop!!! The Wedding Present - Take Fountain Film Reviews Born Into Brothels Childstar Hide and Seek Ong Bak: Thai Warrior Rory O'Shea Was Here Swimming Upstream Tarnation	DVD Reviews AVP: Alien vs. Predator Battle Royale The Brak Show, Volume One Donnie Darko: The Director's Cut The Fifth Element: Ultimate Edition New York, New York Ray Shark Tale Thieves Highway Tout Va Bien Concert Reviews Joel Plaskett Emergency Scissor Sisters Steve Forbert Book Reviews James Patterson - 3rd Degree Jared Diamond - Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed Douglas Coupland - Eleanor Ribgy: A Novel Suzanne Brockmann - Hot Target: A Novel Dave Eggers - How We Are Hungry Dead Koontz - Life Expectancy Tori Amos & Ann Powers - Piece by Piece Sherrilyn Kenyon - Seize The Night Jack Kerouac (ed. Douglas Brinkley) - The Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac Unearthed Reviews Album: Johnny Dowd - Cemetary Shoes Album: The Kinks - Soap Opera Album: The Kinks - Sleepwalker Album: Steve Burns - Songs for Dustmites Book: Ted Heller - Funnymen Book: Hugh Laurie - The Gun Seller
Issue 6 - February 2005
	Features North Humberland: The Sadies and Canada's Nashville Beyond Belief: Lewis Black and the Comedy of Outrage Give Us An Absolute Songwriter: An Interview with Steve Forbert Bigamy Sisters: Neither Bigamists, Nor Sisters. Discuss. Memory Lane: Remembering Elliott Smith Torn & Frayed: Frygirl Columns The Indie's Turn: Sub Pop Records Getting To Know The Byrds Advice To Graduates: Richard Thompson Been There: Branford Marsalis Quartet Couch Festival: Chicks Who Need A Lot Of Therapy Oops! David Cross in Scary Movie 2 8x5 Editorials Aaron Licht Adam M. Anklewicz Adam D. Miller Brighid Mooney Cari Crosby Russell Bartholomee Shel Desormeaux Zayne Reeves
Album Reviews Andrew Bird - Mysterious Production of Eggs Ani DiFranco - Knuckle Down Bright Eyes - Digital Ash In A Digital Urn Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning The Chris Stamey Experience - A Question of Temperature The Complements - Something Like Happiness Consortium Of Genius - In C.O.G. We Trust Eric Clapton - Sessions For Robert J. Kimya Dawson - Hidden Vagenda Lou Barlow - Emoh Marianne Faithfull - Before The Poison McEnroe and Birdapres - Nothing Is Cool Mike Doughty - Skittish/Rockity Roll The Moaners - Dark Snack Shivaree - Who's Got Trouble? Various Artists - Sunday Nights: The Songs of Junior Kimbrough Film Reviews The Assassination of Richard Nixon The Aviator Bad Education Fat Albert Hotel Rwanda Hose of Flying Daggers In Good Company Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou A Love Song For Bobby Long Million Dollar Baby Ocean's Twelve A Very Long Engagement The Woodsman	DVD Reviews The Bourne Supremacy Fat Albert & The Cosby Kids: Ultimate Collection Garden State Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle The Inbreds - Home Movies King Of The Hill: The Complete Third Season The Lord of the Rings: Return Of The King (Special Edition) The Manchurian Candidate Open Water Paris, Texas Pet Shop Boys - Somewhere In Concert The Simpsons: The Complete Fifth Season Concert Reviews Calexico Keane X Zunior.com Showcase Book Reviews Terry Pratchett - Going Postal: A Novel of Disworld Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo - He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth To Understanding Guys David Baldacci - Hour Games Maeve Binchy - Nights of Rain and Stars David Anthony Durham - Pride of Carthage John Updike - Villages Wilco et al - The Wilco Book Unearthed Reviews Book: Nevil Shute - On The Beach Book: Phil Strongman & Alan Parker - John Lennon and the FBI Files DVD: Absolutely Fabulous: Complete DVD Collection DVD: Daddy & Them DVD: Stargate SG-1 Season 2
Issue 5 - December 2004
Features Best of 2004 Greg Proops: Comedy to Enlighten and Frighten Elections, cassettes, and Universal Audio Cake or Death? One Ribbon Microphone and an Old RCA Being There 2004 Holiday Music Guide The Art of Politics Part II - Film, TV, and Theater Columns The Indie's Turn: Stax Getting To Know David Bowie Globetrotting: Montreal Advice To Graduates Been There: The Who Watching The Music: George Harrison's This Song Couch Festival: "When Christmas Gets Weird" Oops! Robert De Niro as Frankenstein 8x5 Editorials Aaron Licht Adam M. Anklewicz Adam D. Miller Brighid Mooney Cari Crosby Russell Bartholomee Shel Desormeaux Zayne Reeves Album Reviews Alison Krauss and Union Station - Lonely Runs Both Ways Handsome Boy Modeling School - White People Jon B - Stronger Everyday The Minus 5 - At The Organ EP NOFX - The Greatest Songs Ever Written (By Us) Phyllis Dillon - Love Is All I Had: A Tribute to the Queen of Jamaican Soul The Rolling Stones - Live Licks Rufus Wainwright - Want Two Sigur Ros - Von Simon & Garfunkel - Old Friends: Live on Stage SpongeBob Squarepants The Movie: Music From The Movie and More Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - Shake The Sheets U2 - How to Dismantle An Atomic Bomb Vordul Mega - The Revolution of Yung Havoks	Film Reviews Alexander Beyond The Sea Callas Forever Closer Finding Neverland The Machinist National Treasure The Sea Inside DVD Reviews Family Guy: The Freakin' Sweet Collection Garfiend & Friends, Volume 2 Hero The Marx Brothers Silver Screen Collection Norah Jones and the Handsome Band - Live in 2004 Ray Charles: O Genio - Live in Brazil 1963 The Saddest Music In The World Seinfeld - Season 1 & 2 Short Cuts - Criterion Collection Spider-Man 2 Concert Reviews Le Tigre Social Distortion The Musical Box Book Reviews Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus - Citizen Girl Kim Stanley Robinson - Forty Signs of Rain David Foster Wallace Oblivion: Stories George Carlin - When Will Jesus Bring The Pork Chops Unearthed Reviews Album: The Plastics - Forever Plastico Film: The Films of Lindsay Anderson Book: Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale Book: Theodore Dreiser - Sister Carrie DVD: Stargate SG-1 - Season 1 DVD: Smothered - The Censorship Struggles of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
Issue 4 - November 2004
Features Cover To Cover Poor Girl's Blues A Lone Rabbit On The Road The Art of Politics Part I - Literature, Music and Comedy Columns The Indie's Turn: Merge Records Battle of the "Experts" - Lucid Dreaming Getting to Know Elvis Costello Been There: Radiohead opening for R.E.M. Watching The Music: Sloan's She Says What She Means Whatever Happened to Shelley Duvall Oops! Garth Brooks as Chris Gaines 9x5 Editorials Aaron Licht Adam M. Anklewicz Adam D. Miller Brighid Mooney Cari Crosby kid spill Russell Bartholomee Shel Desormeaux Album Reviews Ali Shaheed Muhammad - Shaheedullah and Stereotypes De La Soul - The Grind Date Camera Obscura - Biggest Bluest Hi-Fi Elliott Smith - From A Basement On A Hill Frank Black Francis - Frank Black Francis Jon Brion - I Heart Huckabees Soundtrack Le Tigre - This Island Leonard Cohen - Dear Heather Neko Case - The Tigers Have Spoken Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds- Abattoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus Ray Charles - Ray Soundtrack Richard Buckner - Dents & Shells Sarah Slean - Day One Ulysses - "010" Book Reviews Bob Dylan - Chronicles, Volume 1	Concert Reviews Gillian Welch Jolie Holland DVD Reviews Bill Hicks Live: Satirist, Social Critic, Stand Up Comedian Calexico: World Drifts In David Byrne: Live At Union Chapel Dawn Of The Dead Ed Wood: Special Edition Homicide Life On The Streets: The Complete Season 5 The Ren & Stimpy Show - Uncut: The First and Second Seasons The Rolling Stones Rock 'n' Roll Circus Wattstax (30th Anniversary Special Edition) Willie Nelson & Friends - Outlaws and Angels Film Reviews Birth I Heart Huckabees Kinsey Ray Saw The Incredibles Del Amitri - Del Amitri
Issue 3 - October 2004
Features An Ace In The Sleeve: The Trajectory of the Arcade Fire A Fond Farewell To A Friend A Film Freak's Experience of the 29th International Film Festival In Search Of Love And Music: Joni Mitchell's Musical Exploration 1971-1979 Columns The Indie's Turn: Carrot Top Records Battle of the "Experts": Documentaries Globetrotting: Liverpool Been There: Andrew Bird opening for the New Pornographers Watching The Music: Sonic Youth's Swimsuit Issue Whatever happened to XTC 9x5 Editorials Aaron Licht Adam M. Anklewicz Adam D. Miller Brighid Mooney Cari Crosby Jennifer Halpern kid spill Russell Bartholomee Shel Desormeaux Album Reviews Brad Mehldau - Live in Toyko Brian Wilson - Smile Cake - The Pressure Chief Clinic - Winchester Cathedral The Delgados - Universal Audio Elvis Costello - Il Sogno Elvis Costello & The Imposters - The Delivery Man Gentleman Reg - Darby & Joan Guided By Voices - Half Smiles of the Decomposed The Jones Thing - A Comfortable Pair Madeleine Peyroux - Careless Love R.E.M. - Around The Sun Robyn Hitchcock - Spooked The Sadies - Favourite Colours That 1 Guy - Songs in the Key of Beotch Tom Waits - Real Gone Book Reviews America (The Book: A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction) Darkly Dreaming Dexter: A Novel Eats, Shoots & Leaves In The Shadow of No Tears Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About	Concert Reviews Boy, Shaker, and Matt Mays & El Torpedo Brian Wilson Nick Lowe DVD Reviews Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning Good Bye Lenin! Chris Rock: Never Scared Star Wars Trilogy Film Reviews Motorcycle Diaries Oldboy Raspberry Reich Shark Tale Shaun of The Dead Sideways Trauma Unearthed Reviews Cheers The Kinks - Muswell Hilbillies Roadkill BE - This Stupid Dream
Issue 2 - September 2004
Features Not Afraid To Change Destroyed By Madness: NYC's Howl! Festival of East Village Arts 2004 Heather Dale: Light Of The North Too Many Martyrs Columns The Indie's Turn: Matador Battle of the "Experts": Reality TV Globetrotting: New York City Sight Unseen Been There: Paul McCartney plays Mull of Kintyre Watching The Music: Blur's Coffee and TV Whatever happened to The Gin Blossoms 8x5 Editorials Aaron Licht Adam M. Anklewicz Adam D. Miller Brighid Mooney Cari Crosby Jennifer Halpern kid spill Shel Desormeaux Album Reviews Badly Drawn Boy, One Plus One is One Bjork, Medulla The Black Keys, Rubber Factory Brian Wilson, Gettin' In Over My Head Elvis Costello: Reissues Garden State Soundtrack Geriant Watkins, Dial W for Watkins A Girl Called Eddy John Adams - On the Transmigration of Souls Modest Mouse, Good News for People Who Like Bad News Peter Elkas, Party of One William Shatner, Has Been	Film Reviews Collateral Exorcist: The Beginning Garden State Open Water Suspect Zero Vanity Fair We Don't Live Here Anymore DVD Reviews Duel Garfield & Frields, Vol 1 Jersey Girl Kill Bill Volume 2 Outfoxed Peter Sellers As He Filmed It The Weather Underground Concert Reviews Lyle Lovett Van Morrison Unearthed Reviews Album: Badfinger, Magic Christian Music Album: The Replacements, Let It Be Book: H.G. Wells, Time Machine/The Invisible Man DVD: The Office, Season 1&2 Audible: Greg Proops
Issue 1 - August 2004
Features In Need Of Radio's Attention The Two Headed Director The Luckiest Guy On The Lower East Side Columns The Indie's Turn: Nonesuch Records Battle of the "Experts": Rubber Soul vs. Revolver Globetrotting: New Orleans How To Festival Been There: Elvis Costello's When I Was Cruel tour Watching The Music: Tori Amos' A Sorta Fairytale 8x5 Editorials Aaron Licht Adam M. Anklewicz Adam D. Miller Brighid Mooney Cari Crosby Jennifer Halpern kid spill Shel Desormeaux	Album Reviews Feist - Let It Die Franz Ferdinand Jolie Holland - Escondida Juliana Hatfield - In Exile Dio Loretta Lynn - Van Lear Rose Magnetic Fields - i Nick Drake - Made To Love Magic Postal Service - Give Up Ron Sexsmith - Retriever Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse Stellastarr* The Killers - Hot Fuss They Might Be Giants - The Spine Wilco - A Ghost Is Born Film Reviews Before Sunset Coffee & Cigarettes Fahrenheit 9/11 Super Size Me The Village DVD Reviews City Of God Nero Wolfe Season 1 Six Feet Under Season 2 Triplets Of Belleville Book Bill Clinton - My Life Unearthed Buck Owens - In Japan! The Smoke - ...It's Smoke Time