AltWeeklies Wire
Men in Prison, and the Women Who Love to Date Themnew
Women find true love writing letters to prisoners, dating and sometimes marrying them, too.
New Haven Advocate |
Brianna Snyder |
02-17-2009 |
Culture
Tags: prisoners, relationships
Obama's War on Humornew
It's one of the most talked-about, most written-about subjects of the presidential transition period. It's been argued in editorials, political cartoons and internet screeds. The looming crisis: Barack Obama isn't very funny.
New Haven Advocate |
Christopher Arnott |
01-29-2009 |
Comedy
Tags: Barack Obama, political humor
Just Married: A Justice of the Peace Finds Justice and Peacenew
Why did I expect campiness from gay couples? Just ignorance, I guess. Gay, straight, young, old, rich, poor, all the soon-to-be and newlywed couples I've known in my bumpy little life have one thing in common: They're in love.
New Haven Advocate |
Todd Lyon |
01-27-2009 |
Culture
Money: The Root of All Evilnew
There is one big difference between the Great Depression and 2009. Back then, too many people had too little money. Today, we have the more complicated, almost existential dilemma of too many people having too much money. The caveat: This is not real money.
New Haven Advocate |
Alan Bisbort |
01-27-2009 |
Commentary
If You Like Action RPGs, 'Fable II' is Definitely Worth Your Timenew
Overall, Fable II is a game that greatly improves upon its predecessor while maintaining the elements that made it so much fun. Annoying flaws aside, there's still a lot of entertainment to be found within its world, and there's an absolute ton of content.
New Haven Advocate |
Scott Niblock |
01-06-2009 |
Video Games
Tags: video games, Fable II
People Love to Film Themselves Drunk ... The Rest of Us Love to Watch Themnew
Some people love to watch the drunks be drunk, and the drunks love to be watched, or so suggest the thousands of videos, blogs, pictures, forums and message boards devoted to drunks and drinking.
New Haven Advocate |
Brianna Snyder |
12-02-2008 |
Tech
Tags: Drugs, TV, YouTube, web culture, computers & technology, Intervention, A&E, Drunk History, drunks
Lewis Black is on the Road Again and Still Very Pissed Offnew
The thing is, Black talks most about the things that make him angry. And when I asked him about Sen. John McCain, his Democratic rival for the presidency, Sen. Barack Obama, and all the noise and whistles that come with the campaign, he got angry.
New Haven Advocate |
David Riedel |
10-28-2008 |
Performance
Paris, Je T'aime: Un Petit Sojourn to the City of Lightsnew
Paris is a delicious bouillabaisse of a city: A little bit of New York, a dash of Boston, and a hefty dollop of London, but with a taste and style all its own.
New Haven Advocate |
Erik Sweet |
10-28-2008 |
Travel
Dave Attell Rips Hecklers and Kills with Jokes About Horse Sexnew
He is one of the dirtiest, riskiest and funniest comedians on the scene today. But if you ask Dave Attell what he's trying to be, he says he's just trying to be funny -- dirty and risky are by-products.
New Haven Advocate |
Erin Lynch |
09-16-2008 |
Performance
Would Lowering the Drinking Age Help Colleges Battle Dorm-Room Binges?new
Some 128 college and university presidents have signed onto the Amethyst Initiative, a proposal that calls for "an informed and dispassionate public debate over the effects of the 21-year-old drinking age."
New Haven Advocate |
Jayne Keedle |
09-02-2008 |
Food+Drink
The Human Life Extension Movement Sees a Glorious Future for Us Allnew
People involved with the loosely connected movements of life extension, transhumanism and singularitarianism think we're soon going to be able to extend our lives almost infinitely. And they're working feverishly to survive into that golden age. They're willing to pop pills and radically reduce how much they eat just to live a bit longer.
New Haven Advocate |
Adam Bulger |
08-12-2008 |
Culture
Divorce, Connecticut-Stylenew
Our court battles are long, nasty and expensive. Is there a better way?
New Haven Advocate |
Daniel D'Ambrosio |
07-29-2008 |
Culture
It's a Nice Day for a Green Weddingnew
More couples are vowing to wed organically, and live environmentally-friendly ever after.
New Haven Advocate |
Jayne Keedle |
07-22-2008 |
Culture
In Stuttgart, the Mercedez Benz Museum Writes a High-Gloss Version of Automotive Historynew
The museum not only pays tribute to a particularly expensive brand of automobile, it also offers up a history of the entire twentieth century, framed by the invention of a new method of motorized travel in 1885 and the widespread recognition of global warming today.
New Haven Advocate |
Eric Goldscheider |
07-22-2008 |
Travel
Photographer Paul Duda Captures China's Cultural Landmarks as They're Destroyednew
Duda has been documenting the way things used to be -- before the 2008 Olympics spurred a national call for modernization of Beijing -- and the way things are now, with crumbling walls and loose bricks around every corner. "I got to photographing these areas in Beijing without any prior knowledge they were going to wipe it out," he says. "Then I went back and realized they were gone, so I just kept going back, kept re-photographing."
New Haven Advocate |
Laura Yao |
06-03-2008 |
Art
