AltWeeklies Wire
Hooker Sciencenew
Are we still so Victorian that we think it's bad to pay large amounts for a few hours of skin-time?
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Annalee Newitz |
03-19-2008 |
Commentary
Rising Above the Mucknew
Barak Obama has the gall to be positive and rise above the muck of negative campaigning. He speaks to the politics of unity.
Jackson Free Press |
Kamikaze |
03-17-2008 |
Commentary
On Race and Rumorsnew
These urban myths and 21st-century chain letters are important, because under the cover of internet anonymity, people expose their fears and prejudices in a manner that they never would in the light of day.
Baltimore City Paper |
Vincent Williams |
03-11-2008 |
Commentary
Power of the Paparazzinew
Wolf Blitzer and Co. are but one rung higher than TMZ in the devolution of the media.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
David Ehrenstein |
03-07-2008 |
Commentary
Motorizing Motivationnew
Recently, the move to concretize our schemes -- albeit ones often grounded in, if not fully sane at least interesting concepts -- has indeed taken off as a social trend.
The Coast, Halifax's Weekly |
Lezlie Lowe |
03-03-2008 |
Commentary
Beat the Clocknew
"The Earth is a terrible timekeeper," says Geoff Chester, the spokesman for this country's official clock-master, the US Naval Observatory in Washington, DC. That is only part of why we have Leap Days and Leap Years, and also Leap Seconds, Leap Weeks, and Leap Months.
Portland Phoenix |
Jeff Inglis |
02-28-2008 |
Commentary
Las Vegas: Fat Citynew
As Las Vegas Weekly's token fatty I've been tapped to weigh in on recent news from Men's Fitness that we here in this Valley are the nation's fattest. Again.
Las Vegas Weekly |
Nick Divito |
02-28-2008 |
Commentary
The War on Sciencenew
Science is crucial to the management of the nation, and without it we're no better than a medieval kingdom.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Annalee Newitz |
02-28-2008 |
Commentary
Women of The Yearsnew
Forget SI's vacant swimsuit smiles -- here are 20 babes whose babeness matters.
Baltimore City Paper |
Ian Grey, Emily Flake, Violet Glaze and Bret McCabe |
02-19-2008 |
Commentary
Is Western Culture Being Drowned By a Jism Tsunami?new
Porn isn't just the elephant in the room -- it's the naked elephant going "uh uh uh" as it frantically masturbates into the face of a bored lady elephant.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Steven Wells |
02-19-2008 |
Commentary
Indoor/Outdoornew
Some hard truths about public sex.
The Portland Mercury |
Justin W. Sanders |
02-08-2008 |
Commentary
Your God Sucksnew
"Heath Ledger is in Hell and has begun serving his eternal sentence." That was a quote from the leaders of the Westboro Baptist Church, who, among others, are claiming that God killed Heath Ledger for portraying a homosexual in a big-time Hollywood movie.
San Diego CityBeat |
Edwin Decker |
02-06-2008 |
Commentary
Car - Bicycle - Pedestrian Hierarchynew
By framing the streets of Boston as a one-on-one fight between cars and bicycles, they're establishing a hierarchy that puts both groups above my people, the pedestrians.
Dig Boston |
Stewart Mason |
02-06-2008 |
Commentary
Heath Ledger and the Curse of Jen Lindleynew
Sure, woe infested the lives of just about everyone on Dawson's Creek, but bad things especially seemed to befall anyone whom Jen Lindley (played by Michelle Williams) showed the least bit of love.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Caralyn Green |
02-04-2008 |
Commentary
Et Tu, Bill?new
Dear Bill Clinton,
I didn’t go so far as a lot of folks did in declaring you the county’s first “black” president, but you were damn close. That’s why I’m hurt that you have become so vicious, so “un-sportsmanlike” in your demeanor in recent days. You appear rattled. Why the venom?
Jackson Free Press |
Kamikaze |
02-04-2008 |
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