AltWeeklies Wire
Middle Eastern Students Face Discrimination at Public Schoolsnew
There is room for legitimate debate about the proper responses to the potential for domestic terrorism, but one clearly indefensible reaction has been widely seen and little discussed.
SF Weekly |
Cristi Hegranes |
08-23-2005 |
Race & Class
Tags: race relations
Follow the Starsnew
A man wants a Date With Drew -- Barrymore, that is -- and he brings a video camera along while tracking down his elusive prey.
November Mournnew
Puzzle nuts and dedicated surrealists will probably have a good time sorting through this 78-minute bag of tricks. Others may find it gimmicky to a fault.
Lawsuit Focuses on Stem Cell Institute's Fundsnew
California's stem cell institute and its oversight committee haven't resolved key issues that could cost -- or save -- state taxpayers millions of dollars.
Fifty Years After His Disappearance, Poet Lives Onnew
Renewed attention to Weldon Kees is a peculiar literary revival tale, in which one enthusiast after another seems to discover his own life story in Kees, then proselytizes on behalf of the forgotten poet.
Aliens, Beware!new
At NASA Space Camp for kids, an adult infiltrator despairs over kids' preparedness to go into space.
Tags: aliens, extraterrestrial
The Identity Makersnew
In the age of terror, are the people who make fake identification documents for the Hispanic community noble public servants -- or national security risks?
SF Weekly |
Cristi Hegranes |
07-26-2005 |
Immigration
Top Church Official Turned Blind Eye Toward Accused Priestnew
Pope Benedict XVI named William J. Levada Roman Catholicism's top doctrinal watchdog -- even though, as San Francisco archbishop, Levada resolutely looked away from sex-abuse complaints against a renowned priest and legal scholar.
From Here to Eternitynew
With younger audiences yearning for something that's not too arty, too wimpy, too loud or too soft, Built to Spill seems right on target.
SF Weekly |
Garrett Kamps |
07-12-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Overcoming Writer's Block at the Learning Annexnew
A man who makes his living infiltrating events and writing about them is plumb out of ideas until he signs up for a writing class under the pseudonym Armando Leonardo.
Tags: memoir
Say-It-Ain't-So Joenew
Why does Joe Morgan -- the best second baseman in history and a prominent TV broadcaster -- hate Moneyball, a book about baseball that he refuses to read?
24-Hour Pouty Peoplenew
Writer/director Chris Terrio has no fear of the big questions in life but where he might have cracked wise, he tends to mope.
The Minuteman's 15 Minutes of Fame (Minute 14.5)new
Looking for illegal immigrants on the U.S.-Mexican border, the Minutemen end up getting spooked by rattlesnakes and the suspicious light of the moon.
SF Weekly |
Harmon Leon |
07-01-2005 |
Immigration
Environmental Cyclenew
San Francisco is the master of the art of hypocritical, Earth-friendly rhetoric. Official support for bicycle commuters could lessen the cognitive dissonance.
SF Weekly |
Matt Smith |
06-16-2005 |
Environment
Bad Educationnew
Kids are learning some serious riffs at Paul Green's rock school in Philadelphia. Don Argott's documentary examines the price they pay for it.
