AltWeeklies Wire
Barrett Brown: American Journalist, Whistleblower & Prisonernew
The unofficial face of Anonymous is the only journalist jailed in America for sharing a publicly available link. Who's next?
Long Island Press |
Rashed Mian |
04-10-2014 |
Civil Liberties
Curating San Francisconew
Gallery evictions signal a major shift in the art world, with the technology boom serving as the problem and its potential solution.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Laura B. Childs |
04-10-2014 |
Art
Lost in its Own Jungle: “Rio 2’s” Socially Awkward Agenda Has a Racist Streak
Brazilian co-writer/director Carlos Saldanha returns to the music-driven children’s animation franchise he began in 2011. Written with three other screenwriters, “Rio 2’s” skewed racial hierarchy of animal characters is spelled out beneath their colorful camouflage.
Tags: Rio 2
Muzzled by Monsantonew
Is Big Ag squelching research showing its new RNAi GMOs may be dangerous?
Boulder Weekly |
Caitlin Rockett |
04-04-2014 |
Health
The Fall of Leland Yeenew
How an FBI probe of organized crime in San Francisco's Chinatown took down a senator and well-connected political consultant.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Steven T. Jones |
04-04-2014 |
Politics
Tags: Leland Yee
Reporter Fired for Checking Email?new
An Oregon daily paper fires a pregnant reporter for checking email while on pregnancy disability leave. Previous to being going on leave, popular entertainment reporter Serena Markstrom Nugent was moved to a hard news beat she lacked experience in and then placed on a "performance improvement plan."
Eugene Weekly |
Camilla Mortensen |
04-04-2014 |
Media
How The Clarion-Ledger Got It Wrong: The Importance of Contextnew
Metro dailies like The Clarion-Ledger often neglect to place important stories in context, which is a grave disservice to its readers.
Jackson Free Press |
Ronni Mott |
04-04-2014 |
Media
Tags: Jackson Clarion Ledger
Bye Bye, College Sportsnew
Last week, the Northwestern football players won the right to unionize when regional director of the National Labor Relations Board in Chicago, Peter Sung Ohr, ruled that players are employees, not just students.
Jackson Free Press |
Bryan Flynn |
04-04-2014 |
Sports
Tags: NCAA Sports
My Squashed Interview With Steve Madden, Shoe Guru-Turned-Ex-Convictnew
A puff piece about shoes transforms into an essay that will likely result in the firing of several of Steve Madden's publicists after a botched attempt at damage control.
Long Island Press |
Jaime Franchi |
04-04-2014 |
Media
Homegrownnew
Sick of genetically modified, waxy cucumbers? Of oversized, tasteless strawberries? Of hormone-injected meat products? Then think about trying a CSA this summer and fall…because nothing beats homegrown, local and fresh.
Worcester Magazine |
Katie Benoit |
04-04-2014 |
Food+Drink
Fixing Wikipedia's Women Problemnew
Wikipedia editor Sarah Stierch hosts a women's history-focused Wikipedia edit-a-thon at UC Berkeley to help improve the site's coverage of women.
East Bay Express |
Zaineb Mohammed |
04-04-2014 |
Performance
Wes Anderson's Room Servicenew
“The Grand Budapest Hotel” is told as a story-inside-a-story from the perspective the hotel’s lobby boy, Zero (played in his youth by Tony Revolori and in old age by F. Murray Abraham), who joins the staff in 1932 and quickly earns Gustave’s trust. Much of the film has the feel of a children’s tale reconstructed from memory with the kind of whimsical flourishes and improbable twists that get embellished over time. The language is a delightful mix of formal rhetoric spiced with some perfectly timed cursing. And nobody even attempts to put on an accent that’s outside their comfort zone — Harvey Keitel is pure Brooklyn, Fiennes all England, and the fact that they share a jail cell somehow conforms to Andersonian logic.
Worcester Magazine |
Jim Keogh |
04-03-2014 |
Reviews
Big Dreams, Tiny Housenew
Inspired by the Tiny House Movement, a growing number of people nationwide have rejected the idea of bigger is better to its fullest extreme, building or purchasing homes that have the bare minimum of what is needed to live a comfortable life. Several individuals in Worcester County in Massachusetts have adopted this minimalist lifestyle.
Worcester Magazine |
Brian Goslow |
04-03-2014 |
Culture
Charles Keating Stiffed Me on a Nearly $1,000 Restaurant Billnew
I had heard of Charles Keating. The man became famous as an anti-porn crusader in Cincinnati back in the '70s, hustling his version of morality against Hustler's version of what the Founding Fathers meant in the First Amendment. My knowledge of Mr. Keating didn't end there, however.
Phoenix New Times |
Tim McWeeney |
04-03-2014 |
Commentary
Subject: MailChimpnew
Re: Ben Chestnut and Dan Kurzius sent 70 billion emails last year
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Wyatt Williams |
04-03-2014 |
Tech
