AltWeeklies Wire
'You Can’t Tell a Hero To Stop Being a Hero'new
Actor and writer Jason Hall, who says he has "no shame about sex," has written a screenplay about a guy much like himself, an antihero, who falls for a girl who plays the game a little better than he.
L.A. Weekly |
Seven McDonald |
09-13-2004 |
Sex
Water Torture: Flooding and the Future of the Worldnew
One billion people, many of them among the world's poorest, live in the potential path of a 100-year flood. Due to the effects of climate change, rising sea levels and unsustainable human activities, that figure is expected to double by midcentury.
L.A. Weekly |
Margaret Wertheim |
09-13-2004 |
Environment
Northeast of Kandahar: 10 Days in Afghanistannew
In remote areas of Afghanistan, the Taliban still rule, and they're working hard to sabotage the country's first democratic elections scheduled for October. Teun Voeten accompanies U.S. troops who, along with the newly formed Afghan National Army, are trying to restore order.
L.A. Weekly |
Teun Voeten |
09-13-2004 |
International
Democrats Help the Right Raise Terrorism Fearsnew
There’s no evidence that Kerry wouldn’t hunt down terrorists as effectively as Bush, but the Democrats have proved tone-deaf in dealing with the psychological fallout of 9/11.
L.A. Weekly |
John Powers |
09-09-2004 |
Commentary
Demonstrators Yelled, and That's About Itnew
The Republican National Convention's security and surveillance tab added up to about $60 million, but despite months of media hysteria and police paranoia about "fringe elements," everyone was . . . cool.
L.A. Weekly |
Ben Ehrenreich |
09-09-2004 |
Commentary
GOP Casts Election as God vs. Mannew
Bush has decided to use a war that most Americans consider a mistake to demonstrate that he is bold enough to do God's work -- that is, lead this nation in a crusade to bring liberty and democracy to countries throughout the world.
L.A. Weekly |
David Corn |
09-09-2004 |
Commentary
How John Kerry Can Emerge From the Democratic Doldrumsnew
In the aftermath of the convention, Democrats are surely praying for something — to begin with, a little more clarity and focus from their nominee.
L.A. Weekly |
Harold Meyerson |
09-09-2004 |
Commentary
Clinton and Kerry in Intensive Carenew
I can imagine Clinton warning Kerry that he better get his act together real soon, that he ought to find a message and stay on it, and that he ought to hit back hard at Bush, lest he get used to the idea of spending the next four years playing tiddlywinks with the last guy who didn’t heed his campaign counsel — that goofy Al Gore.
L.A. Weekly |
Marc Cooper |
09-09-2004 |
Comedy
"Bow-Wow," Said the Bunnynew
I can forgive Gallo his histrionics, which are entertaining enough when they’re not downright vicious. What I can’t forgive is his boring me silly.
L.A. Weekly |
Ella Taylor |
09-02-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: The Brown Bunny, Vincent Gallo
Give Peace Protests a Chancenew
With the Democrats failing to offer a clear anti-war alternative, the peace movement is losing traction in squabbles over direction and doctrine.
L.A. Weekly |
Robert Greene |
09-02-2004 |
Policy Issues
GOP Action Heroes: Arnold, Rudy, John McCain and the Bush Twinsnew
Although protesters keep assailing the president with verve and unexpected wit — I’m especially partial to Billionaires for Bush’s mocking chant “Four more wars!” — many New Yorkers view the election with a sense of impending doom tinged with big-city snobbery.
L.A. Weekly |
John Powers |
09-02-2004 |
Politics
War Party: John Kerry Gets His Marching Orders in New Yorknew
In convention speeches, the Republicans are, rather boldly, assuming full ownership of what wiser folks assume is the inevitable disaster of the Iraqi war.
L.A. Weekly |
Marc Cooper |
09-02-2004 |
Politics
Why Democrats Shouldn't Panic — Yetnew
What we've learned so far from speakers at the Republican convention is that George W. Bush, by contrast to John Kerry, exhibits firm, resolute, determined leadership. But none of the speakers has particularly cared to discuss Bush’s actual record.
L.A. Weekly |
Harold Meyerson |
09-02-2004 |
Politics
Earth Daze: Prose for the Planetnew
Naked offers a hopeful antidote to boring travel writing: a wide assortment of nonfiction, memoirs, short stories, essays and excerpted correspondence in which the environment is not just a setting but a character with dialogue.
L.A. Weekly |
Joshuah Bearman |
08-11-2004 |
Nonfiction
Retired Analyst Discloses Motives for War in Iraqnew
Retired U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski says she observed "a neoconservative coup, a hijacking of the Pentagon" when she worked in the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans during the year leading up to the invasion of Iraq.
L.A. Weekly |
Marc Cooper |
08-07-2004 |
International
