AltWeeklies Wire
Myrlie Evers-Williams and the Power of Onenew
Myrlie Evers-Williams talks about the need for change, the pain of losing a husband and her new book, “The Autobiography of Medgar Evers,” edited with Manning Marable.
Jackson Free Press |
Lynette Hanson |
06-09-2005 |
Race & Class
Tags: race relations
What Pro-Life Really Meansnew
Is the right wing really pro-life or just pro-birth?
Jackson Free Press |
John Sawyer |
06-09-2005 |
Commentary
Such Great Heightsnew
Speaking with Sam Beam is a bit disarming: He sounds like other people, he talks like other people, though he is notably friendly and laid back. He asks a reporter to call back because his daughters are washing up before bedtime. But he's a rock star!
Jackson Free Press |
Walker Sampson |
06-09-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Iron & Wine, Woman King
Good Old Boy Mentalitynew
In Junior Ray, Mississippi-born Memphis English professor John Pritchard has brought to life one of the most tangible, offensive, realistic and rascally characters to ever step out of a 1950s Delta patrol car.
Jackson Free Press |
JC Patterson |
06-03-2005 |
Fiction
Tags: John Pritchard, Junior Ray
Dead Drunk and Crazynew
James Crumley’s novels are brutal, ironic, psychotic and sly. The men are scheming, hard-bitten and as tough as a rattlesnake convention. The women are even worse.
Jackson Free Press |
JC Patterson |
06-03-2005 |
Fiction
Tags: James Crumley, The Right Madness
Nooooo!!! A Review of "Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith" for PS2new
Time after time, crappy games are released under the “Star Wars” title. Attention all designers: Slapping a popular franchise name onto your high school science project is not an excuse for a game.
Jackson Free Press |
Nick Judin |
06-03-2005 |
Video Games
Tags: video games
Don't Get Nukednew
Just as it did in the days that the Dems ran the yard, the filibuster needs to stay.
Jackson Free Press |
Kamikaze |
06-03-2005 |
Commentary
Poke Salad Bessienew
Euell Gibbons lauds poke as "probably the best-known and most widely-used wild vegetable in America." Yancy demystifies it with a little help from his old babysitter Bessie.
Jackson Free Press |
Jesse Yancy |
06-03-2005 |
Food+Drink
Revenge is Sweetnew
Though some intentional mystery remains within the sextet of Star Wars films, Lucas delivers the answers fans have been awaiting, and the events of the series’ third and fourth chapters match up as seamlessly as possible.
Jackson Free Press |
Paul Dearing |
05-30-2005 |
Reviews
Zin Is Innew
McHardy explains why zinfandel is the perfect summer wine.
Jackson Free Press |
Lesley Tolar McHardy |
05-30-2005 |
Food+Drink
A Hip Mama's Talesnew
The lessons in Bee Lavender’s autobiography are not about making dead animals look life-like but about getting through this life.
Jackson Free Press |
Skyla Dawn Luckey |
05-30-2005 |
Nonfiction
With or Without You, Haleynew
Well, Gov. Barbour, all us under-55 Mississippians got your message loud and clear last week. We don’t matter. You don’t care about us and what we think of you because, well, not enough of us are likely to vote for you.
Jackson Free Press |
Donna Ladd |
05-30-2005 |
Commentary
Statistics Are at the Heart of Baseballnew
Lovers of baseball dwell on statistics the way teen-aged girls dissect each and every nuance in a glance from that cute boy across the cafeteria.
Jackson Free Press |
Lynette Hanson |
05-19-2005 |
Nonfiction
MREs -- Don't Look, Just Eatnew
Calorie-packed MREs (Meals, Ready to Eat) do the right thing for today’s men and women who must have nourishment to do their jobs, while training or in combat situations where there’s not a field kitchen in sight.
Jackson Free Press |
Lynette Hanson |
05-19-2005 |
Food+Drink
See Jane Dienew
Jane: A Murder is not just any murder story. Maggie Nelson’s novel is powerful and heart wrenching
Jackson Free Press |
Skyla Dawn Luckey |
05-12-2005 |
Fiction
Tags: Jane: A Murder, Maggie Nelson
