AltWeeklies Wire
NSA Surveillance Started Long Before 9/11 and the Patriot Actnew
Why was the NSA creating intrusive domestic spy programs in early 2001, months before the 9/11 attacks or the creation of the Patriot Act?
Boulder Weekly |
Joel Dyer, David Accomazzo and Jefferson Dodge |
06-21-2013 |
Civil Liberties
Tags: Edward Snowden
Texas Senate Votes to Decimate Abortion Accessnew
People are "genuinely afraid" of how the Texas Legislature treats women, said state Sen. Kirk Watson in an impassioned speech just before the Republican-dominated Senate sailed through a measure that would shut down all but five abortion clinics in the state.
San Antonio Current |
Mary Tuma |
06-20-2013 |
The War on Women
Matthew McGee: Cross-dressed for successnew
The noted actor brings irrepressible humor and a love of the stage to The Scott & Patti Show.
Creative Loafing (Tampa) |
Mark E. Leib |
06-20-2013 |
Theater
Tags: The Scott & Patti Show
Savior in a Red Capenew
The handsome Henry Cavill fits the Superman suit perfectly in “Man of Steel.”
Jackson Free Press |
Anita Modak-Truran |
06-20-2013 |
Movies
Spurs Squander Fourth Quarter Leadnew
Over 100 games into this NBA season, who knew that the Miami Heat’s least valuable player was LeBron James’ headband?
San Antonio Current |
Mike Seely |
06-20-2013 |
Sports
Tags: Miami Heat
Paper Tigernew
Green Investment Group tries to fend off the feds.
Missoula Independent |
Matthew Frank |
06-20-2013 |
Business & Labor
Blazing Fastnew
How firefighters applied Waldo Canyon Fire lessons to the Black Forest tragedy.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Pam Zubeck |
06-20-2013 |
Disasters
The Two David Burgertsnew
Authorities call the missing ex-militia leader armed and dangerous. Others tell a different story.
Missoula Independent |
Jamie Rogers |
06-20-2013 |
Crime & Justice
Double Lives, Extortion and the Suicide of a Respected Professornew
A respected Texas A&M professor with secrets to hide commits suicide and implicates his alleged blackmailer in a case where no one was really who he or she seemed to be.
Houston Press |
Craig Malisow |
06-20-2013 |
Crime & Justice
Shakespearean House Partynew
Joss Whedon invites his favorite actors over for an Elizabethan romp.
Folio Weekly |
John Hoogesteger |
06-20-2013 |
Movies
Tags: Much Ado About Nothing
MLB Steroid Scandal: How Porter Fischer Exposed Biogenesisnew
Porter Fischer shared the medical records, patient spreadsheets, and handwritten composition books with Miami New Times for an explosive story that sparked the biggest drug-related scandal in professional sports since Lance Armstrong lost his seven Tour de France medals in 2012. He could never have predicted the insanity that followed the story's publication: a high-speed car chase on U.S. 1, midnight knocks on his door, death threats, and unmarked envelopes stuffed full of cash.
Miami New Times |
Tim Elfrink |
06-19-2013 |
Features
Spying on Canadiansnew
National security calls it defence against terrorism, others call it unconstitutional.
VUE Weekly |
Ryan Stephens |
06-19-2013 |
Civil Liberties
@KYAnonymousnew
Kentuckian Deric Lostutter made the Steubenville rape case a national story. Now he may go to jail for it.
LEO Weekly |
Joe Sonka |
06-19-2013 |
Crime & Justice
Selling Out Moonshinenew
Business is killing a culture as North Carolinian as NASCAR, one jar at a time.
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) |
Ana McKenzie |
06-19-2013 |
Food+Drink
Girl in a Coma Singer Nina Diaz' Spiritual Makeovernew
“What’s up with Nina?” I asked Faith Radle, Girl in a Coma’s manager, looking at the band’s lead singer, Nina Díaz. It was pouring rain that afternoon in late May, but we were safely sheltered at the ballroom of the Omni Hotel, minutes after Judge Nelson Wolff gave his State of the County address and seconds before I lamely asked, “Is she going to the gym, or something?”
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
06-19-2013 |
Profiles & Interviews
