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...Noir, in the Charles hotel...

Author: By Emily S. High, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Spotlight | 11/14/2003 | See Source »

...slim, if last year is anything to go by - the 10,500 tickets for the 2002 event sold out in less than an hour. Console yourself with the Great Fitzroy Mussel Fest (a vast mussel bake on Great Barrier Island on Jan. 10, 2004), or Wellington's Pinot Noir 2004 - a taste-and-talk fest for lovers of the trendy varietal from Jan. 28-Jan. 31. The Hawkes Bay Festival (Feb. 6-Feb. 9) sees open house, if not open bar, at 25 wineries in the country's best-known wine region, plus a program of supporting events such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Southern Cook-off | 11/2/2003 | See Source »

...Noir: Corona...

Author: By Elizabeth E. Greene, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Beer Price Down Means Drink Up | 10/9/2003 | See Source »

...epic owes as much to Scarface as to Shakespeare. The Tesseract, from a novel by Alex Garland and directed by Oxide Pang (who with his brother Danny made last year's Hong Kong thriller The Eye), has a femme fatale with leather skirt, gun, motorcycle, high cheekbones-all the noir accessories. Open your bedroom door and five tough Thais stand outside, ready to make your face a map of welts. Pang never gets much momentum going here; he's happy to synopsize the genre conventions. And thriller directors never tire of "referencing" the shower scene from Hitchcock's Psycho...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: More Than Chick Flicks | 9/22/2003 | See Source »

...degradation in a 1930s carnival--beg for. Magician Stanton Carlisle hatches a plan to pose as a spiritualist to con rich marks, in the process revealing the family history that destroyed his faith in God and man. Nightmare Alley (Fantagraphics; 129 pages) is an existential novel wrapped in a noir chiller, and Rodriguez's lurid drawings strike just the right balance of sheen and sleaze. Step right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nightmare Alley | 8/25/2003 | See Source »

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