AltWeeklies Wire
PTSD and Silence a Deadly Combonew

Support from community helps heal, but stigma and shame keep people from reaching out.
VUE Weekly |
Josh Marcellin |
12-10-2014 |
Health
Cargolandnew

KCRW Radio Focuses on the Port and San Pedro
Random Lengths News |
James Preston Allen and Publisher |
12-10-2014 |
Commentary
Good God: Churches and the Homelessnew

Local churches are the innovators in housing the homeless in Eugene Oregon, with reverends and pastors leading the way with microhousing.
Eugene Weekly |
Camilla Mortensen |
12-10-2014 |
Homelessness
Man Forever brings an epic wave of percussive intensity to Orlandonew

Few albums are as polarizing as Lou Reed's 1975 noise opus Metal Machine Music. The vast majority of Reed's fans dismissed it out of hand, reacting with varying degrees of confusion and disgust (some even theorized that it was a joke or a fuck-you message to his label), but a few – like music critic Lester Bangs – appreciated Reed's questing spirit and applauded his foray into musique concrète...
Orlando Weekly |
Jessica Bryce Young |
12-10-2014 |
Music
The Fashion Issue: How to dress well for a Detroit winternew
Winter has come. The temperatures will be chilly until mid-April, but that doesn't mean we have to look drab and dreary until then...
Metro Times |
Alysa Offman |
12-05-2014 |
Fashion
Tags: Fashion Issue
Think you love kale? Give it a massage.new
Massaged kale is tasty kale. The process makes it sweeter and more tender, making it more viable to eat it raw.
Weekly Alibi |
Ari LeVaux |
12-05-2014 |
Food+Drink
Undocumentednew

The uncertain future Honduran immigrant children face in New Orleans.
Gambit |
Kari Dequine Harden |
12-05-2014 |
Immigration
Reece Witherspoon Stumbles — Cheryl Strayed, and So Did This Movie

“Wild” is an unsatisfying self-help drama that exposes the limitations of Reece Witherspoon’s range.
The Power of Nonew

A new wave of consent-based intimacy events and communities are reshaping the sexual and sensual landscape in the East Bay.
East Bay Express |
Anna Pulley |
12-04-2014 |
Sex
Profiles in Fearnew

Long after education and life experience have bestowed upon me a much greater understanding of the psychology of race-related fear and the racial profiling that happens inside people's heads on a daily basis, I am still vulnerable to the old impulses.
Metroland |
Stephen Leon |
12-04-2014 |
Commentary
Tags: racial bias
Jewish Kids Review Mall Santasnew

This year, City Paper thought we could put my kids' general lack of experience with or interest in Santa to good use. They've never talked to a Mall Santa, so we visited four of them, and got the kids to review their interactions with the emotional distance only a Jewish kid could provide.
Baltimore City Paper |
Evan Serpick |
12-04-2014 |
Culture
Good Kids, Bad Citynew

Three men exonerated after 39 years in prison for a Cleveland murder they didn't commit.
Cleveland Scene |
Kyle Swenson |
12-03-2014 |
Features
Mind your Table Mannersnew
An interview about food etiquette with syndicated advice columnist Amy Alkon, author of "Good Manners for Nice People Who Sometimes say F*ck." Alkon is a staple of many AAN papers with her column The Advice Goddess.
Weekly Alibi |
Ari LeVaux |
12-02-2014 |
Food+Drink
Jenn Grant’s star powernew

Compostela’s soft, psychedelic folk is struck for love
The Coast, Halifax's Weekly |
Adria Young |
12-01-2014 |
Profiles & Interviews
What Happened to HIV Prevention?new

In the more than 30 years since it began appearing in gay men in the New York City, San Francisco, and Los Angeles areas, HIV/AIDS has transformed from a death sentence to what is perceived by many as a manageable health condition. Still, AIDS is the second-highest killer of New Yorkers ages 25 to 44.
City Newspaper |
Tim Louis Macaluso |
12-01-2014 |
Health