AltWeeklies Wire
Why Your Band Should Forgo "Fuck" for its Namenew

The F-named band has become not the face tattoo of band names but instead the trucker's cap of band names.
Tags: Bands Named Fuck
Detroit Mayoral Race Ripensnew

Benny Napoleon and Mike Duggan release their improvement plans.
Metro Times |
Larry Gabriel |
09-24-2013 |
Elections
Tags: Benny Napoleon
Tampa Bay area ovarian cancer survivors are raising awarenessnew

The warning signs are subtle, but a new ad campaign is not.
Creative Loafing (Tampa) |
Arielle Stevenson |
09-22-2013 |
Health
PA guv hopeful to speak at weekend pot protest, calls police presence ‘ridiculous’new

Pennsylvania Democratic gubernatorial candidate John Hanger tells Philadelphia Weekly he's never smoked pot, but he wants to legalize it, and the issue will earn him the nomination.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Randy LoBasso |
09-22-2013 |
Elections
Guttural Rhythms: The Science of Ted Sirota’s Heavyweight Dubnew

Honing in on sounds drawn from Jamaica invariably abut America’s jazz tradition. Drummer Ted Sirota’s more than vaguely familiar with both. But his estrangement from reggae and dub didn’t occur because of lacking fealty. The drummer just found himself more easily insinuated into jazz ensembles.
Chicago Newcity |
Dave Cantor |
09-20-2013 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Ted Sirota
Missing: The Long Lost Case of Christina Adkinsnew

A crowd of craned necks and reporter's notebooks was gathering Aug. 30 at the corner of Vega Avenue and the brick-lined alley of West 26th Place after FBI sources announced a search for human remains was under way. This sort of congregation had become routine during the summer of 2013, the questions always teetering on the brink of tragic discovery...
Cleveland Scene |
Eric Sandy |
09-19-2013 |
Features
Rum distilling returns to the peninsulanew

A sharp, sweet aroma strikes your nose inside the High Wire distillery. It's a tempting and almost homey scent, like bread baking, but even sweeter.
Charleston City Paper |
Robert Moss |
09-19-2013 |
Food+Drink
Some facts about the toll of coalnew

Three of the Top 50 polluting power plants are in North Carolina.
Tags: Coal Energy Facts
Male callnew

'Anti-sexist' Jackson Katz pushes forward with his gender-jarring messages.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Kirsten Akens |
09-19-2013 |
The War on Women
Massive floods sweep Coloradonew

As of press time Tuesday, at least eight people had perished in floods that paralyzed much of Colorado during days of massive rain storms.
Colorado Springs Independent |
J. Adrian Stanley |
09-18-2013 |
Disasters
'Shine Onnew

East Tennessee cashes in on legal moonshine.
Metro Pulse |
Mike Gibson |
09-18-2013 |
Food+Drink
Voter Integrity Project boot camp teaches how to challenge votersnew
"If you're going on intuition, you will have to prove you're not racist."
Going Postalnew

The husband of U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein has been selling post offices to his friends, cheap.
East Bay Express |
Peter Byrne |
09-18-2013 |
Politics
Does Charlotte have a gayborhood?new

And why it may not even need one.
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) |
Matt Comer, QNotes Editor, Special to Creative Loafing |
09-18-2013 |
LGBT