In Search of a Menu

Has the Diamondback Brewery found an identity? Only time will tell.

• by Elaine T. Cicora

Growing Up in Public

Mike Ness makes an album without so much Social Distortion.

• by Michael Roberts

Restored Faith

Roddy Bottum finds his innocence with Imperial Teen.

• by Michael Gallucci

Pretty on the Outside

Hole moves from the slums to the sunshine.

• by David W. Martin

Livewire

• by Michael Seese, Aaron Steinberg and John Benson

Soundbites

• by David W. Martin

Playback

• by Michael Gallucci

Boss From the 'Burbs

As the battle heats up between the county commissioners and City Hall, Jimmy Dimora is throwing his weight around the old-fashioned way -- with favors, charm, and an occasional kick in the teeth.

• by Mike Tobin

The Edge

Women's War

An INS ruling saves a girl from torture.

• by Jacqueline Marino

Night & Day

May 20 - 26, 1999

• by Laura Putre

Up With People

• by Tim Piai

Flings With Fame

• by Laura Putre

Three Cheers for Modest Filmmaking

The Love Letter is a sunny romance with roots in an earlier era.

• by Andy Klein

A Menace All Its Own

Devotees of Star Trek get their 15 minutes in an upbeat, sometimes disturbing documentary.

• by Bill Gallo

Sweetness and Lightsabers

Unfortunate nods to kiddies and '90s culture aside, The Phantom Menace is Star Wars, all right.

• by Glenn Gaslin

The Graduates

A group of young artists just out of the Cleveland Institute of Art hasn't yet made the grade.

• by Charles Yannopoulos

So-So Birdie

This schizophrenic stage production reinforces the film version's supremacy.

• by Keith A. Joseph

Desperate Living

The Beauty Queen of Leenane presents a mother and daughter as Venus flytraps at each other's throats.

• by Keith A. Joseph