AltWeeklies Wire
The Kentucky Derby is STILL Decadent and Depraved, and So is Humanitynew
This week marks 46 years since Scanlan’s Monthly published Hunter S. Thompson’s legendary piece, “The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved,” a subjective and hilarious report of the 1970 Kentucky Derby.
LEO Weekly |
Frank Messina |
04-28-2016 |
Features
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The Ballad of Fred and Yokonew
How one of the world's foremost Beatles collectors died homeless on the streets of Little Rock.
Arkansas Times |
Will Stephenson |
03-31-2016 |
Features
The Lost World of Arabia Mountainnew
Monks, an animal ER, and 400 million years of history.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Wheatley and Joeff Davis |
02-25-2016 |
Features
No Vagrancy?new
In Salt Lake City's budget no-tell motels, hustling to survive is the name of the game.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Stephen Dark |
02-22-2016 |
Features
Reckoningnew
As regulators put a price tag — $1.32 billion — on what Scott Tucker's payday-lending enterprises have squeezed out of poor people, a grand jury convenes.
The Year in Baltimore Homicidesnew
People are killing people in the streets of Baltimore, nearly every day. In 2015, there were 344 homicides—most of them young black men. If you are a young black man in Baltimore, you are 30 times more likely to die on the streets here than if you had grown up elsewhere in the U.S.
Baltimore City Paper |
Karen Houppert, Edward Ericson Jr., Kenneth Stone Breckenridge, Rebekah Kirkman and Brandon Soderberg |
01-06-2016 |
Features
Chillingly Clueless: Svalbard’s 10 Strangest Stories of 2015new
Which is stranger: a year where parasitic wasps went on an Arctic killing spree and robots rode roller coasters in the world's northernmost ghost town, or the year that actually happened? Yeah, we’re not sure either.
Why I Am Probably Going to Send the Drunk Driver Who Killed My Parents a Christmas Cardnew
The 10th anniversary of my parents' death brings up many emotions. Hate isn't one of them.
The Stranger |
Emily Pothast |
12-23-2015 |
Features
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How El Chapo Digs His Tunnelsnew
The cartel underground.
San Diego Reader |
Monte Reel |
12-17-2015 |
Features
Barefoot Brouhahanew
National winemaker seeks to stomp out local Charlottesville company's moniker.
C-Ville Weekly |
Lisa Provence |
11-24-2015 |
Features
Fear and Loathing in Denvernew
A new light has been turned on in the Hunter S. Thompson kitchen.
LEO Weekly |
Clayton L. Luce |
11-04-2015 |
Features
The Story of a Botched Sting, a Dead Informant and Friendly Firenew
The story of a DEA sting operation in which the confidential informant died, a Houston police officer shot a sheriff’s deputy and most of the suspects were never held accountable.
Houston Press |
Leif Reigstad |
10-28-2015 |
Features
Paradise Lostnew
As the Patriot Movement grabs headlines around the country, memories of Ruby Ridge and the Aryan Nations present an image problem for Constitutionalists in Idaho, which has long been associated with anti-government and militia groups. Boise Weekly talks to a few Patriots about their identity as a group.
Boise Weekly |
Harrison Berry |
10-13-2015 |
Features
Yelp Giveth, and Yelp Taketh Awaynew
Businesses chafe under the review site's increasing power.
San Diego Reader |
Candice Reed |
10-08-2015 |
Features
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License to Connivenew
Boston still tracks vehicles, lies about it, and leaves sensitive resident data exposed online.
Dig Boston |
Kenneth Lipp |
09-10-2015 |
Features
Tags: Boston surveillance
