AltWeeklies Wire
Dying to Lose Weightnew
Diet pills are basically unregulated. They are also dangerous—especially the ones that work. That's a bad combination.
Weekly Alibi |
Ari LeVaux |
05-01-2015 |
Food+Drink
The Hart is a Lonely Brothernew
Kevin Hart is one of comedy's biggest stars—so where's the critical love?
Tags: Kevin Hart, comedy
The Great Homeless Debatenew
Whack-a-mole enforcement in a city spending $87 million on policing the homeless, and no solution in sight.
Random Lengths News |
James Preston Allen |
05-01-2015 |
Commentary
Is Yoga a Religion?new
Two courts rule that yoga is a religion and can't be taught in Encinitas schools, but the schools have scrubbed their yoga programs clean of it.
San Diego Reader |
Don Bauder |
05-01-2015 |
Religion
The Fight for Freddie Graynew
Freddie Gray has become not just a man who was killed in police custody, but a symbol of all of the injustice endured by African-Americans in poor, drug-ravaged Baltimore. City Paper reporters have been on the streets throughout. Here are our dispatches.
Baltimore City Paper |
Evan Serpick, Baynard Woods, Brandon Soderberg and Caitlin Goldblatt |
04-28-2015 |
Features
Tags: baltimore
Partial Freedomnew
Supporters of an initial bill to help trafficking victims say the end result continues to punish victims.
Tucson Weekly |
María Inés Taracena |
04-24-2015 |
Immigration
The Bitterest Pillnew
Did a shift in medication help cause Daniel Cantrell to kill his father?
Nashville Scene |
Steve Cavendish |
04-24-2015 |
Features
A Violent Sex Offender Is Released Into the Public Spotlightnew
One week after completing a 23-year prison sentence for a violent sexual assault, Richard Laws walked through downtown Burlington on a sun-drenched afternoon — a "free" man.
Seven Days |
Mark Davis |
04-23-2015 |
Crime & Justice
The Teaching Poornew
Twenty-two percent of part-time faculty in Oregon are below the poverty line. That’s higher than the 16.2 percent of Oregonians in general that the U.S. Census says are below poverty.
Eugene Weekly |
Camilla Mortensen |
04-23-2015 |
Education
A Killing in Pocahontasnew
A witness murdered, a drug ring exposed, a snake in a box.
Arkansas Times |
Will Stephenson |
04-22-2015 |
Crime & Justice
The Cult of the Pitnew
You love me now, but will you when I’m four?
San Diego Reader |
Bill Manson |
04-22-2015 |
Animal Issues
How to Build a Brewerynew
It's not for the Mild.
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) |
Jonathan Wells |
04-22-2015 |
Business & Labor
Millions for Propaganda ... Nothing for Women's Healthnew
Texas heavily underwrites anti-abortion centers, while slashing reproductive care.
Austin Chronicle |
Staff |
04-17-2015 |
The War on Women
New Orleans Bar Owners Prepare for Smoking Bannew
Local bar owners on what they plan to do when it’s butts out.
The Death of Walter Scottnew
A North Charleston police officer shot a man in the back, and a bystander caught it all on video. What happens next?
Charleston City Paper |
City Paper Editorial Staff |
04-15-2015 |
Crime & Justice
