AltWeeklies Wire
You Write "Theatre," I Write "Theater"new
Why are some folks so passionate in their preference for "theatre" or "theater"? History illuminates the sociopolitical aspects of the argument.
Jonestown's Medicine Mannew
A young Houston physician designed a lethal cocktail that killed more than 900 men, women, children and babies at a place that was supposed to be a paradise but is better known as Jonestown.
Houston Press |
Craig Malisow |
01-30-2013 |
History
New MLK Recordings Reveal Thinking Before Birmingham Protestsnew
Just released recorded conversations between Martin Luther King, Jr. and Jesuit Priest Fr. Albert Foley offer insight into the civil rights leader's thinking as the Birmingham Protests were underway and just before King would write "Letter from Birmingham Jail."
Richard Aoki: Informant Turned Radical?new
Documents, interviews, and public statements raise questions as to whether the ex-Black Panther pulled back from the FBI when he became a militant activist.
East Bay Express |
Momo Chang |
12-05-2012 |
History
Tall Tales From a Condemned Spacenew
As Calgary's old Herald building awaits its date with a wrecking ball, one old scribe looks back on what it stood for.
Fast Forward Weekly |
Bob Blakey |
11-30-2012 |
History
An Advertising Iconnew
The Santa figure the public came to know and love was born, in part, in Tucson.
Tucson Weekly |
Jane Eppinga |
11-29-2012 |
History
Tags: Santa!
8 early researchers into the JFK assassinationnew
Although many were professional investigators, photo analysts, pathologists, journalists, historians or lawyers, most approached the assassination not as a vocation but as an avocation.
13 documents you should read about the JFK assassinationnew
A staggering 6 million documents have been released under the JFK Records Act, as well as mountains of independent research.
Tags: JFK assassination
Early Calgary's Boozy Bad Boynew
Bob Edwards was a boozer, a satirist, a fearless editor and a precursor to the great gonzo journalists of the '60s.
Fast Forward Weekly |
Drew Anderson |
11-08-2012 |
History
Singing to My Soulnew
As a part of my mission to be a better me, I recently began searching for a part of me that I'd lost over the years.
Jackson Free Press |
Queen Folayan |
09-07-2012 |
History
Letters from the End of the Worldnew
The letters of Testuzo Hirasaki, a Japanese-American interned at the Santa Anita racetrack (dubbed "Santa Japanita") following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
San Diego Reader |
Jeff Smith |
08-30-2012 |
History
Tags: Japanese Internment
Nixon's Swiss Stashnew
Did a secret money stash of President Nixon's help finance a San Diego suburb?
San Diego Reader |
Don Bauder |
07-18-2012 |
History
The Rise and Fall of the Easy-Bake Ovennew
I'll tell you about the hardscrabble times, the lean years, when we Toughskins-wearing moppets baked cakes in an oven using two measly light bulbs. And they weren't even compact fluorescent!
Tags: Easy-Bake Ovens
Alamo Mythsnew
True or false: Many men of the divided Texan garrison at the Alamo didn't care much for regular army commander Lt. Col. William B. Travis.
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
04-22-2012 |
History
How Alamo mythology got the upper hand on its historynew
The Battle of the Flowers began in 1891 when a small retinue of horse-drawn carriages and bicycles rambled to the Alamo. In imitation of European festivals of the time, San Antonio society ladies — members of the city's largely Anglo economic elite — threw flowers at each other in mock fight to honor the defenders of the Alamo and to commemorate the surprise victory at San Jacinto by Sam Houston's rebel forces over Santa Anna's army on April 21, 1836.
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
04-20-2012 |
History
Tags: alamo, battle of the flowers
