AltWeeklies Wire
Fight For Women, Not Against Themnew
If our politicians are truly concerned about protecting women and children, they should abandon their relentless assault on abortion rights and tackle the real issues facing girls and women in this state.
Jackson Free Press |
JFP Editorial Board |
08-07-2014 |
The War on Women
Charlie Beck in the Crossfirenew
Accessing LAPD reforms, leadership and the contract.
Random Lengths News |
James Preston Allen |
08-07-2014 |
Crime & Justice
Where were you on Pharoah Sanders Day?new
The early years of a Little Rock legend.
Arkansas Times |
Will Stephenson |
08-07-2014 |
Music
Good Investments: Teaching Texas Inmates About Business Can Turn Criminals Into CEOsnew
The Prison Entrepreneurship Program is a program turning Texas convicts in to Texas businessmen. This isn't just good for the prisoners either- it's good for the general public as well.
Houston Press |
Craig Malisow |
08-06-2014 |
Crime & Justice
The Art of Hypnotherapynew
Oakland artist Carissa Potter shares intimate moments with strangers in a collaborative exhibition involving therapy, meditation, and hypnosis.
East Bay Express |
Sam Levin |
08-06-2014 |
Art
What do you do when one of your favorite bands becomes an utter embarrassment?new
When I was a teenager, I filled notebooks with annotations for the lyrics to Operation: Mindcrime, the third album by Queensrÿche. I lined up four hours before doors opened (and three hours before anyone else showed up) to see them play at a theatre in Kentucky...
Tags: Queensryche
Mixing Menus: Overdo Foodie Movie Arrives With the Hallström Seal
The foodie-romance genre has been oddly absent from American cinema lately. It’s been seven long years since “Ratatouille” (2007) reminded audiences about their taste buds.
Hope is the Resolvenew
Indie rock quartet Signals tells a story about the challenges of faith on their new EP, Hindsight
Tucson Weekly |
Joshua Levine |
08-01-2014 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Signals
LGBT Pols Ready to Play in Statenew
With black folks playing the spoiler in the Mississippi Republican Senate primary, bucking many traditional notions about how politics work in the Magnolia State, gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people are making a political play of their own.
Jackson Free Press |
R.L. Nave |
08-01-2014 |
LGBT
What Is ‘Common Core’ All About?new
The Common Core, a set of math and English language arts standards that spells out what skills students are expected to master in kindergarten through 12th grade, will be rolled out in every Mississippi school this year.
Jackson Free Press |
Jackie Mader and The Hechinger Report |
08-01-2014 |
Education
The McDonnell Trial Activity Booknew
Games and puzzles to guide you through the courtroom commotion of the former Virginia governor and first lady.
Style Weekly |
Ned Oliver and Ed Harrington |
07-31-2014 |
Cartoons
The Dark Side of the Boomnew
Prosperity in Texas has a way of rising and falling with the oil business, but not for everyone. What a town becomes a boomtown, those outside the oil business can't keep up.
Houston Press |
Dianna Wray |
07-31-2014 |
Economy
Tags: Texas Oil Economy
Activists Champion Efforts to Divest From Fossil-Fuel Industrynew
Meet Planet Enemy No. 1: The fossil-fuel industry. And meet the new sheriff in town: The growing movement to divest ownership of fossil-fuel stock.
Wisconsin Gazette |
Lisa Neff |
07-31-2014 |
Environment
Who Would Jesus Deport?new
Religious leaders, political figures and hyperbolic talking heads have yet to reach a consensus on the Bible's application to the issue of immigration in the United States.
Jackson Free Press |
Anna Wolfe |
07-31-2014 |
Immigration
Meet the Marijuana Money Mennew
These eccentric billionaires have the cash that could legalize pot in Oregon.
Willamette Week |
Sami Edge and Rebecca Turley |
07-30-2014 |
Drugs
