AltWeeklies Wire
A Deeply Melancholic Statenew
A couple of days ago I was in a deeply melancholic state because of various personal struggles, including health and financial issues and an ex-wife I still love, but it all is leavened with the sense that as one approaches the end of life, the world becomes a much more apocalyptical place.
Sitting here in Los Angeles, I gazed at recent photographs of Nelson Mandela in South Africa wearing a kind of a beatific smile. It left me wondering if he really felt that sanguine about the planet he is leaving soon. I pondered these matters in part because it evoked some powerful links in my own life.
Mandela, as we all know, was a compatriot of another great Apartheid leader--Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who I saw in 1999 at Westminster Abbey in London at a memorial for the violinist Yehudi Menuhin--who also is my uncle.
Random Lengths News |
Lionel Rolfe |
08-12-2013 |
Commentary
A note from the Durham County jailnew
I noticed there were letters on both sides—on the front a typed intake form from the jail, on the back a handwritten note in pencil—so I sifted the pieces from the dormant blades of grass and took them home.
INDY Week |
Lisa Sorg |
07-31-2013 |
Commentary
Tags: Durham County jail
The War This Timenew
Why was I thinking about Pat Buchanan, gay bars, and AIDS while Colorado burned?
The Stranger |
Dan Savage |
06-26-2013 |
Commentary
Tags: AIDS, Climate Change
Finding Fatherhoodnew
The author’s father spent a few valuable months with his baby granddaughter before passing away.
Jackson Free Press |
Bryan Flynn |
06-13-2013 |
Commentary
Ex-Philly "Hero cop" DeCoatsworth: One Man's Descent or System Failure?new
Despite DeCoatsworth’s history of violence, the story is playing out in the media, locally and nationally, as a hero cop’s shocking fall from grace.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Tara Murtha |
05-22-2013 |
Commentary
Priority Womannew
Celebrating taking care of yourself—and making a cocktail-napkin pact to do it more—is as vital as celebrating workplace success.
Jackson Free Press |
Julie Skipper |
04-26-2013 |
Commentary
Lionel's Lamentnew
Lionel asks, "Why is the world so full of pain? Why does the world seem to be going mad with excess pain? Bombs are exploding in our major cities, people are dying in incredible pain."
Random Lengths News |
Lionel Rolfe |
04-22-2013 |
Commentary
Paying our fair share in two Americasnew
There are two Americas: There are people who are fortunate enough to live in relative comfort and then there are a great many Americans who are just barely getting by.
NUVO |
Cam Savage |
04-12-2013 |
Commentary
Paper, Pleasenew
In an age when most written communication has gone digital, the wedding invitation stands stalwart as a physical, mailable item.
Jackson Free Press |
Kathleen M. Mitchell |
04-07-2013 |
Commentary
Not Saying We’re Perfectnew
Bluesman Bill "Howl-N-Madd" Perry isn't really howling mad. Even when he opens the door of the Two Stick restaurant here for our interview, he has a grin on his face as wide as the swath of sunshine that follows him in.
Jackson Free Press |
Joe Atkins |
03-21-2013 |
Commentary
Take It to the Streetsnew
"Urban warriors" is what I've dubbed the growing group of people of all ages in Jackson who are determined to reverse the narrative here. These are people who know that crime is a symptom of much larger problems, and who don't try to use the problem as a way to get cheap votes or attention.
Jackson Free Press |
Donna Ladd |
03-15-2013 |
Commentary
Writer's Remorsenew
Being a songwriter means sharing yourself with your listeners—for good or bad.
Jackson Free Press |
Micah Smith |
03-08-2013 |
Commentary
Game Onnew
Bridal Bingo is a great way to break the ice between different groups of friends that might not know one another.
Jackson Free Press |
Nneka Ayozie |
03-08-2013 |
Commentary
Claiming the Shakenew
Initially I didn't think it that big of a deal. I mean, the YouTube Harlem Shake videos were just that, right?
Jackson Free Press |
Brad "Kamikaze" Franklin |
03-08-2013 |
Commentary
Now Streaming To A Laptop Near Younew
Films that have been famously snubbed by the Academy.
Orlando Weekly |
Rob Boylan |
03-01-2013 |
Commentary
