AltWeeklies Wire
A Wannabee Butcher Tries Out Her Chopsnew
Some middle-aged dudes might fantasize about rock-star camp. Others will pay a mint to don big-league pinstripes and run around the field. Me, I just wanted to dismember an animal.
Seven Days |
Alice Levitt |
04-28-2008 |
Food+Drink
Oprah's Quest to Overhaul Humanitynew
It's a noble endeavor, and it's awesome that Oprah has so much faith in us, and in herself, that she thinks she can alter the fate of humanity in just 10 weeks of chatting on the internet! But it'd also be nice if she chose her spiritual mechanics a little more judiciously.
Las Vegas Weekly |
Greg Beato |
04-25-2008 |
Commentary
The Politics of Video Gamesnew
Violent video games don't really turn players into criminals, but their defenders do have a duty to confront the controversies they create.
Boston Phoenix |
Mitch Krpata |
04-24-2008 |
Video Games
Tags: violence, video games
Internet Memez Taek Ovar Boston ... and This Headliennew
Cyberspace is all a-blog about ROFLCon, the two-day conference set for April 25th and 26th. Internet celebrities, academics and casual nerds will invade MIT for a group dissection of the internet, examining the history and future of online culture.
Dig Boston |
Nicole Jones |
04-24-2008 |
Tech
Kiss Guitarist Paul Stanley Talks About His New Passion: Paintingnew
That art ranges from serene to immediate, while touching on themes Kiss never would. It's important to him that his art not be seen as some by-product of Kiss. "At the end of the day, if you know you're buying pieces of art because I sing 'Love Gun,' you're probably better off spending the money elsewhere."
Dig Boston |
Rob Turbovsky |
04-24-2008 |
Art
Why You Don't Need to Feel Guilty About Eating at 7-Elevennew
I proudly declare (from on high, if necessary) that I regularly eat pre-packaged sandwiches from 7-Eleven.
San Diego CityBeat |
Nathan Dinsdale |
04-23-2008 |
Food+Drink
How the Web Has Changed Writingnew
Back in the 1990s, I taught writing using books and movies -- there was only one possible kind of output: linear narratives written on sheets of paper. When I recently returned to teaching writing, I couldn't imagine teaching writing using books and linear narratives. I taught writing by showing my students how different software applications could help them structure their writing.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Annalee Newitz |
04-23-2008 |
Tech
Kulture Klash 2 and the Authenticity of an Emerging Arts Brandnew
Charleston's one-night arts event tweaks the standard strategies of arts marketing and sells nothing but the idea of itself.
Charleston City Paper |
John Stoehr |
04-23-2008 |
Art
PETA Presses Al Gore to Take on Meat-Eatingnew
For more than a year, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has hassled Gore to set an example by not eating animal flesh, and more important, to use his group, the Alliance for Climate Protection, to explain that vegetarianism is an important tactic in the fight against global warming.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Alex Felsinger |
04-23-2008 |
Food+Drink
Tech Advice for Dissident Bloggersnew
Blogging is free speech's last frontier against government suppression. It's cheap (free), accessible (easy), and worldwide in seconds (bitchin!). Governments in need of control over information know this -- and they're pissed. So how do you get the word out?
Charleston City Paper |
Joshua Curry |
04-23-2008 |
Tech
The War of the Tasty Appetite Suppressorsnew
It's the old diet doc versus the marketing gun!
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Deirdra Funcheon |
04-22-2008 |
Food+Drink
Meet the Klansman Who Helped to Found Orange Countynew
How Dr. Henry William Head's KKK membership was wiped from the Orange County history books is really a story of how local scholars highlight selected parts of our story.
War Zones, Shipwrecks and Romance Caught on Cassettenew
What follows are excerpts from three tales, discovered on discarded cassette tapes. Three men, at different stages in their lives, reflect on relationships -- with their parents, with strangers in a strange land and even with a buzzing 1920s city named Detroit.
Metro Times |
Rebecca Mazzei |
04-22-2008 |
Culture
Shedding Light on the Olympic Torchnew
China wants the torch to travel through the nations of Western Europe and the United States as well as Tibet as a way to spread the gospel of China's global reach. The torch's 1936 route was also planned with political considerations in mind. The torch was carried exclusively through European areas where the Third Reich wanted to extend its reach: particularly southeastern and central regions.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Dave Zirin |
04-22-2008 |
Sports
Nora Pouillon Was Organic When Organic Wasn't Coolnew
Long before "organic" and "local" were on most people's food radar, Pouillon was serving organic food at her namesake Washington, D.C. restaurant. Opened in 1979, Restaurant Nora became the first certified organic restaurant in the country in 1999.
Isthmus |
Erika Janik |
04-22-2008 |
Food+Drink
