AltWeeklies Wire
Chris Tucker is alive and doing very wellnew
Tucker says the $12 million he owed in back taxes "connected me back with my audience. Because they can relate to that, because they got their own problems."
Jingo Pornnew
Olympus Has Fallen is the worst kind of exploitation as it marginalizes North Korea’s real-life despotism
Boise Weekly |
George Prentice |
04-18-2013 |
Reviews
Local filmmaker gets into Indie Grits with Reednew
Dorian Warneck's mother Petrea is an oboeist, and like many oboeists, she makes her own reeds. Carving tools, lacquers, and cane shavings were a normal sight during his childhood, so Warneck never thought twice about his mom's craft.
Charleston City Paper |
Susan Cohen |
04-18-2013 |
Profiles & Interviews
Gay marriage is not a simple step forwardnew
Don't get me wrong. I love weddings. I love big parties full of food, happy people, and hopefully, an open bar. I love it when the gays, the homos, the queers, the fags, the queens, the dykes, and the feisty bisexuals are all working it out on the same dance floor.
Charleston City Paper |
Jenna Lyles |
04-18-2013 |
Commentary
S.C. public university boards have an X chromosome shortagenew
When Susan Pearlstine started campaigning to join the Medical University of South Carolina's board of trustees, she didn't imagine that the process would involve traveling to Columbia and cornering legislators in the Statehouse parking garage.
Charleston City Paper |
Paul Bowers |
04-18-2013 |
Policy Issues
Feed-good bill for public schoolsnew
District 11 stands among those worried about how to fulfill legislative promise
Colorado Springs Independent |
J. Adrian Stanley |
04-18-2013 |
Education
Paywall? Philly Papers' Elusive Effort to Make Journalism Paynew
The long-awaited Inquirer.com and PhillyDailyNews.com are online this week, liberating the dailies from the bikini-and-gossip-coated digital stinkpit of Philly.com and locking content behind pay walls, where readers will finally have to pay for it. Sort of.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Daniel Denvir |
04-18-2013 |
Media
The Mathis family fights a first-grade battle close to homenew
Elementary education
Colorado Springs Independent |
Kirsten Akens |
04-18-2013 |
Children & Families
The Wrong Side of Rightsnew
Alfred Cleveland is not a murderer. Alfred Cleveland has spent 16 years in prison for murder
Cleveland Scene |
Eric Sandy |
04-18-2013 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: wrongful convictions
What Makes a Good Editorial Cartoon
A good editorial cartoon should never be fair, balanced, moderate or so evenhanded that it is impossible to tell what the political orientation of the cartoonist is from that cartoon. This rules out a lot of them.
Gone but Never Forgottennew
First Nations women murdered in alarming numbers and little is done about it.
VUE Weekly |
Ryan Bromsgrove |
04-18-2013 |
The War on Women
The Enforcernew
Banks send lawyer Daniel Gordon after people who don’t pay their credit-card bills. Who is watching how he operates?
Willamette Week |
Nigel Jaquiss |
04-18-2013 |
Economy
Tags: debt collection
Shakedown: The HCAD Appraisal Gamenew
HCAD fights owners of moderate housing for every single assessment penny. So why is it routinely handing out tax breaks worth several millions to big corporations?
Houston Press |
Steve Jansen |
04-18-2013 |
Housing & Development
Ed Lee’s New Southnew
How does a Korean-American from Brooklyn become one of Kentucky’s top chefs? New cookbook “Smoke & Pickles” tells the story.
LEO Weekly |
J. Christian Walsh |
04-18-2013 |
Food+Drink
Perms, Police and White Privilegenew
Admitting we have a problem is the first step.
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) |
Ailen Arreaza |
04-18-2013 |
Race & Class
