AltWeeklies Wire
Growing Uncertaintiesnew
Climate change is forcing farmers in the Northeast to rethink their seasonal strategies.
Metroland |
Amy Halloran |
08-03-2012 |
Environment
Tags: Climate Change
The 99 Percentnew
On the ground in Albany, and in the air everywhere, signs that a movement has changed the conversation about inequality.
Peaceable Offendersnew
New York State Police are cracking down on Occupy Albany protesters in Lafayette Park, but Albany County's District Attorney won’t prosecute.
21st Century Situationists
Framed inaccurately by the press, The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear is best understood as a contemporary extension of the French Situationist movement of the ’60s, a mass inversion of rhetorical logic, meant to break the spectator’s passivity toward the spectacle and turn the obscuring force of mass media back on itself. Using pop cultural references and superficial Internet memes like the double-rainbow guy and “Hide ya kids, hide ya wife...” in the context of a once-powerful political forum was a Dadaist attempt to wipe the slate clean, to rise above the fruitless tit-for-tat schoolyard shouting match to which our political discourse has been reduced by the 24-hour news cycle and corporate spin-doctoring.
Evangelism Goes Online and Streams to You Live with LifeChurch.tv
Between this year and last, LifeChurch.tv's congregation swelled by more than 5,000 regular attendants at its 13 campuses, including locations in Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Arizona and Florida -- and the one here in Albany.
Will a New Safety Law Bankrupt Small Businesses?new
Many manufacturers and retailers of children's products, along with book publishers, artisans, concerned parents and consumers, even the American Library Association, have begun to panic about the monumental scope of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act's impact.
Babies Sleep Safest Where?new
A well-intentioned public health campaign in New York state may harm as many infants as it helps -- if not more -- by claiming that babies sleep safest alone.
Metroland |
By Miriam Axel-Lute |
11-06-2008 |
Children & Families
"Spring Forward," "Worth the Wait," and "All the Right Moves"new
AltWeeklies Award - Music Criticism
Tags: media
Looking Up: "Crimes of Passion," "Many Shades of Bi," "The Price of Fear"new
AltWeeklies Award - Column
Tags: media
The Conversation Artistnew
For 25 years, in his magazine The Duplex Planet, David Greenberger has compiled portraits of relationships -- the most significant being that between the artist and his muse.
Tags: media
The Bush Administration & the Damage Done
In waging the war on terror, the White House also has fought a not-so-secret battle for unchecked authority.
Metroland |
Chet Hardin |
09-06-2007 |
Civil Liberties
Tags: civil liberties
Committing to a Quick Fixnew
Mental-health experts caution against moving ahead with the civil confinement of sex offenders.
Metroland |
Chet Hardin |
02-15-2007 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Prosecution or Persecution?new
Facing charges from money laundering to aiding terrorists, local Muslims say they are victims of a government witch hunt
Metroland |
Chet Hardin |
09-29-2006 |
Crime & Justice
