AltWeeklies Wire
In Texas, Juvenile Sex Offenders Get Virtual Life Sentencenew
Texas is one of at least 10 states that put children found guilty in juvenile courts on public sex-offender registries.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
05-09-2013 |
Crime & Justice
Sterling High School: Keeping It All Togethernew
As Sterling High School's year comes to an end, merger talk has the community upset, critics say they can't trust HISD, and its latest principal is pulling out all the stops to try to get kids to graduation.
Houston Press |
Margaret Downing |
05-09-2013 |
Education
Tags: Houston schools
American Dreamersnew
Four stories of immigrant mothers who braved hard work, perilous journeys, even separation to raise their children as U.S. citizens.
Nashville Scene |
Kim Green |
05-09-2013 |
Immigration
Tags: immigration
Koch Problem: Can the Dailies Quit It?new
Anyone who is still slaving away as a full-time employee at a daily newspaper in 2013 is doing it because she has no place else to go. And you can bet your bottom dollar that the Kochs know it, too.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
05-09-2013 |
Media
A 278-year-old error over the N.C.–S.C. border is riling residentsnew
Unceremoniously marked 278 years ago with a stone here or a notch on a tree there, King George's boundaries leave a portion of Fred Berlinger's Polk County home in South Carolina.
INDY Week |
Billy Ball |
05-09-2013 |
Environment
Tags: border
Renoir the painter and Renoir the filmmakernew
Renoir, a ravishing and sensuous imagining of one summer late in the life of Pierre-Auguste Renoir, makes the great painter's work matter again by putting an aging man's passions into an emotional and historical context.
HB 1081, the sex-ed bill, awaits Hickenlooper's signaturenew
A bill to change the state standard for comprehensive human sexuality education is awaiting Gov. John Hickenlooper's signature. House Bill 1081 adjusts the state's definition of comprehensive sex ed to be more inclusive, and creates a grant program for schools that want to offer curriculum meeting the new standard (see "Bananarama," News, Feb. 27)...
Colorado Springs Independent |
J. Adrian Stanley |
05-09-2013 |
Education
Trapped in the matrix with Black Moth Super Rainbownew
Electronica nihilist Tom Fec snatches chaos from the jaws of victory
Colorado Springs Independent |
Chris Parker |
05-09-2013 |
Profiles & Interviews
The Long History of Ariel Castro, Cleveland Kidnapper and Monsternew
Ariel Castro, 52, and his brothers Pedro and Onil were arrested following the rescue of Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight. Ariel owned the Seymour Avenue home where the women had been kept. Police sources paint a grim picture of chains, restraints, locked doors, and rape.
Cleveland Scene |
Eric Sandy |
05-07-2013 |
Crime & Justice
A Killer Vacation — Lovebird Serial Killers Take On Northern England
Blacker than the La Brea Tar Pits, director Ben Wheatley’s dark comedy about a couple of serial killer lovebirds is an exquisitely funny movie.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
05-07-2013 |
Reviews
The Creative Loafing Birthday Issuenew
Past and present staffers take a look back at 25 years of loafing creatively.
Creative Loafing (Tampa) |
David Warner |
05-07-2013 |
Media
The Magic of Os Mutantesnew
A 47-year-old band from Brazil is coming to Club Congress to promote a new album. Why should you care?
Tucson Weekly |
Thane Tierney |
05-07-2013 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: os mutantes
The Louisiana Newspaper War of 2013new
What the sale of The Advocate in Baton Rouge could mean for New Orleans' Times-Picayune.
The CC Club: An Oral Historynew
Tales from the iconic bar in Minneapolis that served the likes of David Carr, Tom Arnold, and Tommy Stinson. Few establishments in the Twin Cities have seen more glasses emptied, cigarettes smoked, or strangers find each other.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Olivia LaVecchia and Andy Mannix |
05-06-2013 |
Features
We Are All Soviets Now
Sure, all rules are arbitrary. But once you start breaking your own rules, you undermine the basis of legitimacy for the system you’ve created and hope to perpetuate. If we go back to the basis of nationhood – you have a right to exist if you can carve out borders, defend them, and repel invaders – we unwind the world order that has been in place for nearly half a millennium.
