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Boxing's Comeback in New Orleansnew
Friday Night Fights has been producing boxing showcases in New Orleans about every two months for the past three years.
Tags: New Orleans Boxing
The bees are trying to tell us somethingnew
"If 30 percent of the cows fell over in the field every year, people would freak out."
INDY Week |
Raia Mihaylova |
08-08-2013 |
Environment
Tags: Bee population decline
Unlikely hitmaker Ke$ha crashes the club-pop party with purposenew
Ke$ha is a big, black fly in the pristine, pre-packaged pop ointment: She dismantles modern pop using the same tools that built it. And she is, at the moment, our strangest pop star.
Falsetto and Funknew
Demon Queen's new album, featuring Zackey Force
Funk, might be one of the year's most anticipated releases.
Tucson Weekly |
Joshua Levine |
08-08-2013 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: zackey force funk, Demon Queen
A Model Forest?new
The recent purchase of 20,000 acres of coastal redwoods could become a prototype for sustainable lumber harvesting.
East Bay Express |
Madeleine Thomas |
08-08-2013 |
Environment
Pop Punk Progenitors: The Descendents never want to grow upnew
It's easy to misjudge punk rock, figures the Descendents' Bill Stevenson. "There's some impression it's this bonehead thing," he says. "But when you look just a little beyond that surface, you realize it's where a lot of the thinkers are in the rock community."...
Colorado Springs Independent |
Chris Parker |
08-08-2013 |
Profiles & Interviews
Mangini's Messnew
Sent to Save the Cleveland Browns, Eric Mangini Instead Put on a Clinic on How to Drive a Team's Morale Into the Ground.
Cleveland Scene |
Nate Jackson |
08-08-2013 |
Sports
Parking tax in Atlanta? Why not?new
Cash to build transit, bike lanes, and sidewalks won't fall from the sky.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Wheatley |
08-08-2013 |
Transportation
Seasons of Migration: Arab Spring Perspectivenew
From the grave, literary icon Tayeb Salih deftly elucidates the underlying social forces propelling the Arab Spring conflicts.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Lee Miller |
08-08-2013 |
Fiction
Pennsylvania Fight for Voter ID Far From Overnew
Pennsylvania's Voter ID decision is in the hands of a judge. No matter which way he comes down, the fight is set to go on for several years.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Randy LoBasso |
08-07-2013 |
Politics
Tags: Voter ID PA, Voter ID Pennsylvania
Porn’s Pimping Price - Linda Boreman’s Story Gets a Muted Treatment
“Lovelace” [mostly] succeeds as a brief biopic of Linda Boreman, a middle-class girl from Florida who became a household name – via her porn appellation “Linda Lovelace” – for which she made only one film, “Deep Throat” (1972).
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
08-06-2013 |
Reviews
12 Months Too Long Com-Rom-Rom-Com Tests Your Patience
As a premise, a doomed marriage sounds like a no-brainer: you can pile on outrageous episodes of slapstick, physical comedy and biting wit. Unfortunately, "I Give It a Year" is a no-brainer.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
08-06-2013 |
Reviews
Swords Into Plowsharesnew
Veterans are putting down their guns and taking up farming.
Dallas Observer |
Lauren Drewes Daniels |
08-06-2013 |
Features
Tags: War Veterans
Washington Post Sold to Jeff Bezos for $250 Millionnew
At an all-staff announcement of the news, Publisher Katharine Weymouth told employees she thought her grandmother, former Post publisher Katharine Graham, would support their decision to sell the paper.
Washington City Paper |
Will Sommer |
08-05-2013 |
Media
Tags: Jeff Bezos
First Day Without Plain Dealer Home Delivery Sucksnew
Reports indicate that it's been taking upwards of an hour for the e-edition to load on iPads. What a way to inspire confidence in an already tortured, livid audience base.
Cleveland Scene |
Sam Allard |
08-05-2013 |
Media
Tags: Cleveland Plain Dealer
