AltWeeklies Wire
Is Anne Frank's Diary pornography?new

Pornography is Ron Jeremy and Jenna Jameson. It's Penthouse and Hustler. It's Debbie Does Dallas, 50 Shades of Poorly Written BSDM, and anything written with the intent to turn people on and get them off.
Charleston City Paper |
Leah Rhyne |
05-15-2013 |
Commentary
Steep Climbnew

Will the doping scandal affect public interest in America's biggest bike race?
North Bay Bohemian |
Nicolas Grizzle |
05-15-2013 |
Sports
Raising Capital Citiesnew

The 'best band in Los Angeles' scores with its 'Safe and Sound' single
Colorado Springs Independent |
Bill Forman |
05-15-2013 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Capital Cities
New laws lay out the path for Amendment 64's implementationnew
Reefer rulings
Colorado Springs Independent |
Bryce Crawford |
05-15-2013 |
Drugs
Down in the basement: Mike Rep's dank and creative lifenew

As suburban sprawl began its duplicitous creep, a kid named Mike Hummel and his family took up residence in Timberlake, a region southwest of Ohio's capital. It was the 1960s.
Chicago Newcity |
Dave Cantor |
05-14-2013 |
Profiles & Interviews
Addicted to Gunsnew

Is there a cure for Chicago's crippling dependence on firearms?
Chicago Reader |
Mick Dumke |
05-14-2013 |
Features
Tags: Chicago Gun Violence
Raise a toast to Champagne's sparkling personalitynew

The best thing about Champagne? It can be drunk morning, noon and night, and in all four seasons.
INDY Week |
Adam Sobsey |
05-14-2013 |
Food+Drink
Tags: Champagne
Making Worldsnew
In "The Kings and Queens of Roam," author Daniel Wallace illustrates the power words have to make worlds, both in the tragic whimsy of the world his words create and in the sad, scary world one character builds for another.
Jackson Free Press |
Kathleen M. Mitchell |
05-14-2013 |
Books
The Great Gatsbynew

Baz Luhrmann infuses the Fitzgerald classic with lots of life but little soul
Orlando Weekly |
Cameron Meier |
05-14-2013 |
Reviews
Boldly Going: Star Trek’s Eternal Mission Continues

“Star Trek Into Darkness” is a lot of movie. It gets personalities and dialogue right, but lets gigantic plot problems slide around like ocean-bound rubber duckies on an oil slick.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
05-14-2013 |
Reviews
David Vitter's Resurrectionnew

How Louisiana's junior senator has emerged as a powerbroker in Baton Rouge.
Delicious Regretnew

One of Vue's own takes on a burger eating challenge.
VUE Weekly |
Meaghan Baxter |
05-14-2013 |
Food+Drink
My Mother, the American Dreamnew
My mother and her family left Lithuania during the last year of World War II. Small but feisty, she carried her potty as the family wound their way through the country into Poland and on to Germany until arriving in a displaced person camp, where she lived until immigrating to the United States in 1950.
Jackson Free Press |
Deirdre Danahar |
05-10-2013 |
Culture
Alberta barley makes great beernew

Farmers from across the province picked for brewing program.
Fast Forward Weekly |
Mike Tessier |
05-10-2013 |
Food+Drink
Foodopoly lifts the veil on our food systemnew

Wenonah Hauter's book examines the history and political machine behind agribusiness consolidation, the pharmaceutical industry, factory farming, food safety and even the co-opting of "organic."
INDY Week |
Lisa Sorg |
05-10-2013 |
Food+Drink