AltWeeklies Wire
How to Give $1 Million to a Mayoral Candidatenew
Thwart the $1,000 contribution limit with this one weird trick!
Charleston City Paper |
Paul Bowers |
05-06-2015 |
Elections
Tags: campaign finance
City 'Til We Dienew
Detroit City FC’s unlikely birth — and unlikelier rise to popularity.
Metro Times |
Adam Doster |
05-06-2015 |
Sports
Small Parklets Spawn Big Debate in Greensboronew
Many of Greensboro’s highest ranking officials were involved in the conversation, including the assistant city manager, at least two members of the city attorney’s office, the top two officials at GDOT, and a handful of other staffers either working on the regulations or discussing the concept at hand.
YES! Weekly |
Jeff Sykes |
05-06-2015 |
Features
The Art of Hip-Hop in Greensboronew
Greensboro’s arts studio Uptown Artworks is preserving a hefty portion of hip-hop culture with its exhibit “Thinkin of a Master Plan;Hip-hop the ARTform.”
YES! Weekly |
Yes! Weekly |
05-04-2015 |
Art
The Definition of Healthnew
The FDA relied on outdated science when it sent a rather unkind letter to the makers of Kind Bars, telling them to stop calling the product "healthy." They may not be, but not for the reasons FDA gave
Weekly Alibi |
Ari LeVaux |
05-01-2015 |
Food+Drink
Rochester Marches for Baltimorenew
Members of several Rochester activist groups are marching through the city this afternoon to show support for people in Baltimore protesting the death of Freddie Gray while in police custody. Marches and other events are taking place nationwide in what is being called the Black Spring movement.
City Newspaper |
Christine Carrie Fien |
05-01-2015 |
Race & Class
The Silent Partnernew
An (unsuccessful) attempt to find the eastern Idaho farm boy who became a contract 'torturer.'
Boise Weekly |
Zach Hagadone |
05-01-2015 |
Features
Dying to Lose Weightnew
Diet pills are basically unregulated. They are also dangerous—especially the ones that work. That's a bad combination.
Weekly Alibi |
Ari LeVaux |
05-01-2015 |
Food+Drink
The Hart is a Lonely Brothernew
Kevin Hart is one of comedy's biggest stars—so where's the critical love?
Tags: Kevin Hart, comedy
The Great Homeless Debatenew
Whack-a-mole enforcement in a city spending $87 million on policing the homeless, and no solution in sight.
Random Lengths News |
James Preston Allen |
05-01-2015 |
Commentary
Is Yoga a Religion?new
Two courts rule that yoga is a religion and can't be taught in Encinitas schools, but the schools have scrubbed their yoga programs clean of it.
San Diego Reader |
Don Bauder |
05-01-2015 |
Religion
Is there anything to hate about San Diego?new
A compilation of pet peeves about America's so-called Finest City.
San Diego Reader |
Siobhan Braun |
04-30-2015 |
Commentary
The Fight for Freddie Graynew
Freddie Gray has become not just a man who was killed in police custody, but a symbol of all of the injustice endured by African-Americans in poor, drug-ravaged Baltimore. City Paper reporters have been on the streets throughout. Here are our dispatches.
Baltimore City Paper |
Evan Serpick, Baynard Woods, Brandon Soderberg and Caitlin Goldblatt |
04-28-2015 |
Features
Tags: baltimore
Partial Freedomnew
Supporters of an initial bill to help trafficking victims say the end result continues to punish victims.
Tucson Weekly |
María Inés Taracena |
04-24-2015 |
Immigration
Unlocking the Secrets of that Flamenco Musicnew
When I was not yet quite a teenager, I spent a few years studying the classical guitar under Dorothy De Goede. She was a strikingly beautiful woman who had been a student of Andre Segovia.
Random Lengths News |
Lionel Rolfe |
04-24-2015 |
Culture
Tags: flamenco
