AltWeeklies Wire
Top Pool Sharks Fight for the Game's Respectabilitynew
Professional players can't survive on the meager tournament winnings pool offers, and their reputation as renegades hasn't helped the sport's image.
Riverfront Times |
Randall Roberts |
10-25-2005 |
Recreation
Blocker's Gambitnew
Calvin Blocker, Ohio's only native international chess master, is back in the game after being sidelined by depression.
Cleveland Scene |
James Renner |
10-11-2005 |
Recreation
The Hot Spot in Dallasnew
Deep Ellum is a strip in Dallas full of rowdy bars and clubs and a dying music scene. Violence and break-ins scare bands and patrons away, so one writer investigates a typical night, topped off with cops and mace paintball guns.
Dallas Observer |
Sam Machkovech |
08-22-2005 |
Recreation
Tags: bars & clubs
Off the Wall?new
A new pilot project aims to centralize and standardize
concert posters on downtown Montreal billboards. City
officials are looking for a way to work with advertisers and
diminish illegal postings, most of which are for small bands
playing the bar circuit.
Montreal Mirror |
Pohanna Pyne |
08-19-2005 |
Recreation
Tags: bars & clubs
Giki for Tiki
Say aloha to the reinvention of the dying concept of the fraternal order.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
08-18-2005 |
Recreation
Tags: recreation
The Truck Stops Herenew
Southern Illinois vegetable farmer David Metzger has but one other passion: long-haul trucking, which doubles as his full-time occupation. This week, in Tampa, he'll find out whether he's the best in the U.S.
Riverfront Times |
Mike Seely |
08-18-2005 |
Recreation
Tags: trucking
All Roads Lead to Lena'snew
A student thesis gone wild gives the famous Caffe Lena, where people from Bob Dylan to Bernice Johnson Reagon got a start, the gift of its own history.
Metroland |
Miriam Axel-Lute |
08-03-2005 |
Recreation
In Search of the Underground Poker Gamenew
The trick is to find a "friendly" place, where you're unlikely to get murdered, before it gets raided and shut down.
Long Island Press |
JB McGeever |
07-29-2005 |
Recreation
Blood, Sweat, and One Gearnew
Urban bike messengers are nuts on an average day. Imagine how much more insane they become when they get together for a competition--think blood, vomit, beer, and head butting.
Baltimore City Paper |
Ron Cassie |
07-27-2005 |
Recreation
Tags: bike messengers
Working for the Weekendnew
The San Francisco Bay Area bohemian generation that so valued leisure and creativity became the generation that created the balls-to-the-wall, sleep-is-for-the-weak work ethic.
East Bay Express |
Chris Thompson |
07-25-2005 |
Recreation
Are We Having Fun Yet?new
Americans worship at the altar of recreation but are downright clueless about leisure.
East Bay Express |
Will Harper |
07-25-2005 |
Recreation
Tags: recreation
Born to Roll: Alamo City Rollergirls Are Tough on the Tracknew
Forget Raquel Welch in Kansas City Bomber. Today's roller derby is not your mother's beer-throwin' cat fight. It's a tough, competitive sport in which women can get their teeth knocked out.
San Antonio Current |
Susan Pagani |
07-22-2005 |
Recreation
It's a Bird! It's a Plane! No, It's a Real Dick
SuperDickery.com builds a compelling case accusing Superman of not only being a dick, but a super-dick.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
07-21-2005 |
Recreation
Surf's Up -- in Kansasnew
There wasn't an ocean in Kansas, so Mike Olson decided to build one for landlocked wakeboarders.
The Pitch |
Ben Paynter |
07-19-2005 |
Recreation
Tags: cable parks, Wakeboard Nebraska
Crotch Rocketeersnew
It's zero to oblivion in a heartbeat for too many of the risk takers on the new supercharged bikes.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Jeff Stratton |
07-11-2005 |
Recreation
Tags: recreation
