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Cagednew
How Ohio politicians keep the state's puppy mill business booming with little regulation.
Cleveland Scene |
Eric Sandy |
07-25-2013 |
Features
Play the N.C. Voter ID Game!new
In the waning days of its legislative session, the North Carolina General Assembly is tackling a key tenet of democracy: voting. And by tackling we mean pummeling, trouncing and mowing it down.
Opportunity, Montaananew
A review of Brad Tyer's new nonfiction book offering a look at the modern environmentalist.
Boise Weekly |
Jo Deurbrouck |
07-24-2013 |
Books
A Dab'll Do Ya: Stoner Tech 2.0new
Lessons learned from Colorado and California: Mangoes and Butane Honey Oil.
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) |
Desiree Kane |
07-24-2013 |
Drugs
A Six-Way Race to the Startnew
Detroit voters are less than two weeks away from a mayoral primary that has been overshadowed by an emergency financial manager and a subsequent bankruptcy filing. Metro Times editors sat down for in-depth interviews with the race's top six candidates to hear how each would rescue a city drowning in debt and apathy.
Metro Times |
Bryan Gottlieb and Curt Guyette |
07-24-2013 |
Politics
Why Republicans fail at job creationnew
As people fall overboard in the economy, Republicans don't throw out a raft. But they do make a note to get their own kids swimming lessons.
INDY Week |
Bob Geary |
07-24-2013 |
Commentary
Fruitvale Station speaks to post-Trayvon Martin Americanew
It's a sad state of affairs when movies like Fruitvale Station have to show everyone what they should know by now: Black people are people, too.
Blue and Cold: Woody Allen’s Ghost Roams Empty Halls
Woody Allen has bottomed out. His latest attempt at interpreting yet another global mecca — this time San Francisco — through a prism of flailing romance, barely manages to elicit a couple of subdued chuckles.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
07-23-2013 |
Movies
Unrepentant Cutthroats: Joshua Oppenheimer Leaks Indonesia’s Genocide
At once the most micro and meta combination of cinéma vérité, documentary, and docudrama filmmaking techniques ever assembled, Joshua Oppenheimer’s “The Act of Killing” is an earth-shattering cinematic experience.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
07-21-2013 |
Reviews
EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS OF TSARNAEVnew
DigBoston's response(and non-response to the Tsarnaev media shitstorm.
Dig Boston |
J Pat Brown |
07-21-2013 |
Very Recent History
The Long Goodbyenew
An Idaho family fights to learn the truth about their daughter's death.
Boise Weekly |
George Prentice |
07-21-2013 |
Features
Tags: Kelsey Anderson
New Doc Re-ignites Old Suspicions About TWA Flight 800 Disasternew
On 17th anniversary of Flight 800's explosion off the coast of Long Island, new documentary's director answers questions about the tragedy and re-ignites suspicions over its true cause.
Long Island Press |
Spencer Rumsey |
07-21-2013 |
Movies
A Poem of Violencenew
Rinko Kikuchi is rookie trainee Mako Mori in “Pacific Rim.”
Jackson Free Press |
Anita Modak-Truran |
07-18-2013 |
Movies
Martin, Zimmerman Should Give Pausenew
In the rush to approve whatever new gun law the NRA happens to be pushing at the time, legislators forget that the laws they create will lead to real-world confrontations, leaving teenaged boys and grown men with guns to figure out the limits of the law among themselves under the darkness of night skies.
Jackson Free Press |
JFP Editorial Board |
07-18-2013 |
Crime & Justice
Letting It Gonew
When my therapist said the words to me, I nearly fell out of my chair. "You were abused!"
Jackson Free Press |
Funmi "Queen" Franklin |
07-18-2013 |
The War on Women
