AltWeeklies Wire
A Surplus of Information is Making the War Invisiblenew
New camo for the army, and data dumps from Wiki Leaks. The war is vanishing in plain sight.
Hartford Advocate |
Greg Beato |
08-26-2010 |
Commentary
Tags: Afghanistan, Wikileaks
Mother's Milk is Man's Best Friendnew
Wet nursing, milk banks, the powers of mother's milk, people freaking out about women nursing in public -- why can't Americans view mother's milk as something as valuable as a clean blood supply? People's hangups and a few health concerns get in the way.
Hartford Advocate |
Brianna Snyder |
08-13-2010 |
Science
Tags: Breastfeeding
How the iPhone 4 Changed Long Distancenew
Why are those iPhone ads are so strangely manipulative and unsettling? Because they presume that we don't need an excuse to be no where near our loved ones when when important things happen, or just always.
Hartford Advocate |
Greg Beato |
08-13-2010 |
Tech
Tags: iPhone
Oversexualized Teen Stars are a Toxic Assetnew
What does Miley Cyrus have in common with the pump-and-dump economy?
Hartford Advocate |
Cintra Wilson |
07-23-2010 |
Commentary
Tags: Miley Cyrus
iPhone4: Breaking Boardsnew
The qwerty keyboard may feel right, but it's so wrong.
Hartford Advocate |
Brianna Snyder |
07-13-2010 |
Tech
Tags: technology, iPhone
The New Ecstasy?new
You can snort it. It’s legal. But think about it first.
Hartford Advocate |
Brianna Snyder |
06-18-2010 |
Drugs
Cruel Intentions: The Supreme Court's Impact on Dogfighting Videosnew
A recent Supreme Court decision had the effect of protecting videos depicting extreme animal torture.
Hartford Advocate |
Daniel D’Ambrosio |
06-03-2010 |
Animal Issues
Tags: Dogfighting
Republican Pundits Embrace Orwellian B.S. Tacticsnew
Republican Newspeak, that anti-intellectual, substance-abusing language style that gave us such zingy propaganda phrases as “Death Tax” and “death panels” is generally so deliriously truthless it would make even a discriminating Nigerian SPAM artist blush.
Hartford Advocate |
Cintra Wilson |
05-26-2010 |
Commentary
Tags: Rand Paul
Partying With Pearl Jamnew
Cartoonist Tom Tomorrow tells of his wine-fueled collaboration with Eddie Vedder and the gang.
Hartford Advocate |
Tom Tomorrow |
05-17-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Watch Leonard Cohen Transfix 600,000 Tired Hippiesnew
It’s four in the morning, at the end of August, 1970, and Leonard Cohen is taking the stage in front of 600,000 restless fans at the Isle of Wight Festival. There have been fires, clashes, riots and aggressive outbursts toward the musicians.
Hartford Advocate |
John Adamian |
03-26-2010 |
Music
Citizens Armed With Cameras — 'Video Vigilantes' — Take on the Policenew
The most notorious and obvious example of video vigilante-ism might be George Holliday’s 1991 video of the Rodney King beating, which showed four police officers brutally kicking King and beating him with their batons.
Hartford Advocate |
Brianna Snyder |
03-26-2010 |
Crime & Justice
Smartphone Apps Take Birding to the Next Levelnew
It turns out that iBird Explorer is one of many birding apps for smartphones. There’s the WildLab, National Geographic Handheld Birds, Birdpost and ChirpTracker Mobile. Peterson Field Guides, a sacred text in the world of birding, even has apps.
Hartford Advocate |
Brianna Snyder |
03-26-2010 |
Tech
Playing Our Culture’s Stupid Narcissism For Laughsnew
Pretty Wild, E!’s latest effort to document the strange and beautiful life forms that inhabit the least-charted latitudes of Fame, is as real as a fake boob — which is to say it’s the most accurate and illuminating depiction of how we live now currently airing on TV.
Hartford Advocate |
Greg Beato |
03-26-2010 |
TV
The Kardashian Index: The Leading Economic Indicators and America’s Fictional Economynew
The worm really has turned, and the center of gravity has tilted east. Next there will be dried cuttlefish stands at Yankee Stadium. This is a sign that the rest of the world has started adjusting to the idea that U.S. economy is still fictional, and will probably remain that way.
Hartford Advocate |
Cintra Wilson |
03-18-2010 |
Commentary
Here's a Way to Deal with Problem Geese, Deer and Crabs: Eat Themnew
It can get you into the great outdoors and help the environment. It taps into the locavore craze and the foodie mania for eating weird shit. It can even (if you're so inclined) allow you to kill things with a clear conscience.
Hartford Advocate |
Gregory B. Hladky |
02-24-2010 |
Food+Drink
