AltWeeklies Wire
Atlantis Ho!new
David Hatcher Childress has traveled all over the globe in search of lost cities, but Kempton, Illinois, is where he has chosen to build his empire of the improbable.
Chicago Reader |
Mike Sula |
09-11-2006 |
Culture
Tags: lifestyles
Rubber the Right Waynew
Latex fashion model Bianca Beauchamp brings together the world of kink at Montreal's Fetish Weekend.
Montreal Mirror |
Chris Barry |
09-05-2006 |
Culture
Tags: lifestyles
The Politics of Braidsnew
Braiders are now required to spend thousands of dollars on beauty school, where they must learn to cut, dye, and perm -- services they never wanted to provide. Instead they're going underground.
Chicago Reader |
Tasneem Paghdiwala |
09-05-2006 |
Culture
Tags: lifestyles
Dance, Little Sisters, Dance!new
A dwarf writer, confronting dwarf strippers, peels away his own inhibitions.
New Haven Advocate |
Eugene Pidgeon |
09-05-2006 |
Culture
Tags: lifestyles
Northern Lightsnew
One Portlander found love, gay marriage and an escape from President Bush ... in Canada.
Willamette Week |
Andrew MacLeod |
08-24-2006 |
Culture
Tags: lifestyles
Metal Magicnew
Loud rock music, sleight of hand, and life in a trailer -- what a combo!
Miami New Times |
Josh Schonwald |
08-22-2006 |
Culture
Tags: lifestyles
A Music Box of His Ownnew
Organist Mark Noller spent $50,000 converting his garage into a replica of his weekend workplace.
Chicago Reader |
Andrew Schroedter |
08-21-2006 |
Culture
Tags: lifestyles
What I Did On My Summer Vacationnew
So long to cliched basketball day camps and church sleepovers -- Portland's newest kids camps are niche-marketed to urban activists.
Willamette Week |
Elianna Bar-El, Byron Beck, Ap Kryza and Ethan Smith |
08-16-2006 |
Culture
Tags: lifestyles
Hi, My Name Is Ryannew
The clown prince of Phoenix's downtown art scene is sacrificing madcap antics for a Mormon mission.
Phoenix New Times |
Benjamin Leatherman |
08-08-2006 |
Culture
Tags: lifestyles
Wanna See Something Really Weird?new
One of the country's largest collections of freak-show oddities is housed in an unassuming town home in Chicago's western suburbs.
Chicago Reader |
Susannah J. Felts |
07-31-2006 |
Culture
Tags: lifestyles
Junk Farmnew
An antique paradise is buried deep in the country.
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) |
Jared Neumark |
07-26-2006 |
Culture
Tags: lifestyles
The Revolution of Everyday Lifenew
The members of the Emma Goldman Finishing School are trying to live their revolution one day at a time.
Seattle Weekly |
George Howland Jr. |
07-05-2006 |
Culture
Tags: lifestyles
Om on the Rangenew
The Rainbow Family welcomes itself back to Colorado.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Joshua Zaffos |
06-22-2006 |
Culture
Tags: lifestyles
Conventional Romancenew
The Romantic Times Booklovers Convention draws about 1,000 romance novel–reading women (and a few men), and proves the romance genre is a force to be reckoned with.
Orlando Weekly |
James Carlson |
06-22-2006 |
Culture
Tags: lifestyles
