Posts Tagged ‘jesus’
Preacher Perry Comforts His Gun-Toting Flock
JIMMY FOWLERHow moronic is Rick Perry’s response to President Obama’s new gun control proposals? His statement reaches Everest-scale heights of dumbassed-osity that even I didn’t think he was capable of. It’s awe-inspiring. He ment...
PETA’s Deep Pockets
StaticJesus surely loved a good fish sandwich despite the fact that tartar sauce wasn’t invented until years later. Mr. Loaves and Fishes himself once fed 5,000 people with only five loaves of bread and two little fish. That’s im...
Jesus BBQ: Bless You
This nigh-historic Southside diner has been slinging succulent CFS, barbecue, and Tex-Mex since 1970.ERIC GRIFFEY
Jesus BBQ is a perfect metaphor for what’s going on in the area around South Main Street and Rosedale Avenue. The little diner is nestled between a giant factory and what appears to be a halfway house but is also about a bloc...
Infinite Jest
Kristian LinIt’s high time that America discovered Steve Coogan. The 43-year-old needle-nosed native of Manchester, England, is hugely popular in the U.K. as the star of several TV shows and smart, funny postmodern comedy films (Tris...
Personal Jesus
BooksThe Oscar-nominated 2006 film Jesus Camp may have been a documentary, but it played more like a horror movie to non-religious people and to liberal believers.
North Country
Two Mexicans and one father drive this low-budget, high-powered drama.Kristian Lin
Christopher Zalla’s first feature filmmaking effort screened at Sundance in 2007 under the title Padre Nuestro, where it became the first Spanish-language film to win the festival’s grand jury prize.
The Flaming Heart
Why should gays be denied the pleasures of Catholic guilt?Jimmy Fowler
On the recent April night when I became a Catholic, my feet hurt like hell.