AltWeeklies Wire
How Sweet is Mardi Gras in New Orleans This Year?new
One week before the Crescent City’s annual bacchanalia, right in the heart of parade season, its beloved Saints brought home the Vince Lombardi trophy. (And on their very first try. Showoffs.) This year’s Fat Tuesday celebrations promise to be a Big Easy epic.
Artvoice |
Geoff Kelly |
02-12-2010 |
Commentary
Congressman Brian Higgins Makes the Case for the Health Care Reform Billnew
When Speaker Nancy Pelosi unveiled the Democrats' 1,900-page reform bill, Higgins was one among those Democrats who jumped out front to defend the proposal against relentless Republican opposition.
Ralph Nader On the Decision to Run for President Againnew
"I was looking at my position papers from '04, and almost without exception everything is worse," says Nader, whose long career as a consumer rights advocate is now overshadowed by his runs for the presidency in 2000 and 2004.
With New Film Project, Professor Griff Takes on African-American Media Stereotypesnew
Griff's most famous role in that long career is minister of communications for Public Enemy, but Griff (born Richard Griffin) has made his own name in the world as well, separate from but always in pursuit of the same agenda that drove Public Enemy: empowering black people, countering media dissembling, fighting the powers that be.
Artvoice |
Geoff Kelly |
03-14-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
FOILed Againnew
None of the editors and government officials I spoke with in other cities had ever worked in a city that had a communications policy as restrictive as Buffalo's.
Tags: media
Steve Kurtz on Getting Off FBI's Terrorist Watch Listnew
The Critical Art Ensemble co-founder has become a poster boy for Bush administration paranoia and prosecutorial overreach.
Artvoice |
Geoff Kelly |
09-07-2007 |
Civil Liberties
Following the Moneynew
It is shaping up to be an expensive election season in Western New York, in large part because the open race for county executive is drawing out big donors -- we break down the haves, the have-nots, and others.
Ralph Nader: An Unreasonable Man?new
Public Citizen #1 -- subject of a new documentary and author of a new book about his childhood -- talks about 2008, his past campaigns and the state of activism in the US today.
A Congressman Abroadnew
Congressman Brian Higgins discusses our dependence on foreign oil, explains the votes for which he is most often criticized by the left and describes how he imagines the Iraq War will be resolved.
His Great Statenew
Artvoice collects Eliot Spitzer's promises to Western New York, to keep score when he becomes the state's next governor.
Three Men in a Roomnew
A former state senator reveals Albany's dysfunctions in a new book.
