AltWeeklies Wire
The Spirit of the Boogie: An Interview With Kool of Kool & the Gangnew
It's a good thing that Mr. Robert "Kool" Bell didn't answer his cell phone when I first tried to call him. Had he picked up, I wouldn't have had the pleasure of hearing his groovy voice mail greeting: "You have reached Kool, and it's kool to leave a message."
Weekly Alibi |
Jessica Cassyle Carr |
02-26-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Suckers for Stucker: An Interview With Our Favorite Weathermannew
Steve Stucker really needs no introduction. Since 1990, he’s brought jovial morning weather forecasts to New Mexicans via KOB-4. Formerly a professional dog trainer, Stucker is a friend to animals, even parading pooches on TV every Friday in order to help them get adopted.
Weekly Alibi |
Jessica Cassyle Carr |
02-02-2010 |
Media
Tags: Steve Stucker, Groundhog Day
Bud Melvin Mixes Banjo, 8-Bit Nintendo and Karaokenew
Melvin creates a solo novelty using the banjo and chiptunes -- music produced by older video game and computer systems that generate sound in real time. It's both retro digital and pastoral, an unlikely combination that interacts with the dynamism of yin and yang.
Weekly Alibi |
Jessica Cassyle Carr |
07-28-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Bud Melvin, Popular Music
Meat the 21st Century: A Delinquent Vegetarian's Victory Talenew
After almost 11 years of a repulsion-based vegetarianism, one day I just ceased to be repulsed. I'm alarmingly comfortable with relinquishing something that's been part of my very identity for so long. It is a little sad for me, admittedly, but the epicurean future is too tantalizing for it to get me down. Thank you, bacon.
Weekly Alibi |
Jessica Cassyle Carr |
05-20-2008 |
Food+Drink
Corn-based Doc Unearths America’s No. 1 Cropnew
Without calls to action or divisive language, this artistic little piece of investigative journalism explores the hand-in-hand transformation of corn and the American food supply.
Weekly Alibi |
Jessica Cassyle Carr |
12-18-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Aaron Woolf, King Corn
Hey, Big Spendernew
When it comes to loans, consumers are advised to protect themselves before they wreck themselves.
Weekly Alibi |
Jessica Cassyle Carr |
12-18-2007 |
Economy
Tags: Economic Issues
Plastic Peoplenew
How we became a nation of debtors, and how we can find our way out.
Weekly Alibi |
Jessica Cassyle Carr |
12-11-2007 |
Economy
Tags: Economic Issues
The Vegetarian Thanksgivingnew
Don't invite Tofurky this year.
Weekly Alibi |
Jessica Cassyle Carr |
11-13-2007 |
Food+Drink
A Feast for the Modern Imaginationnew
Apt documentary takes a look at one of the odder, more tragic places in America.
Weekly Alibi |
Jessica Cassyle Carr |
06-19-2007 |
Reviews
How to Cope With Legacy of Waste at Los Alamos?new
Los Alamos National Laboratory continues to develop nuclear weapons -- to the detriment of soil and groundwater, as the 36-square-mile lab now houses hundreds of waste sites contaminated with dangerous substances, some of which have already shown up in water supplies.
Weekly Alibi |
Jessica Cassyle Carr |
06-19-2007 |
Environment
Tags: environment
To All You Burlesque Performers Who Claim 'Empowerment'new
Whether or not you put old-fashioned sass into what you're doing, you're still removing your clothes to get men off and simultaneously submitting to current attitudes of crass commercialism.
Weekly Alibi |
Jessica Cassyle Carr |
04-17-2007 |
Commentary
Work It!new
For the desk-ridden white-collar worker, we present office exercise.
Weekly Alibi |
Mark Chavez and Jessica Cassyle Carr |
08-01-2006 |
Sports
Tags: sports & fitness
