AltWeeklies Wire
#JeSuisCharlienew
Today’s Charlie Hebdo attack resonates across the world’s newsrooms, including ours.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Enrique Limón |
01-07-2015 |
Media
Marriage Equality Finally Comes to Floridanew
Even if you removed all of the hyperbolic superlatives from the vaunted journalism lexicon, pissed on them and then set them on fire, you would still hazard an errant exclamation point at the events that transpired in relation to same-sex marriage over the holidays when nobody was watching.
Orlando Weekly |
Billy Manes |
01-07-2015 |
LGBT
Cold Case: The Murders of Cosby and Jacksonnew
The murders of Britney Cosby and Crystal Jackson, her girlfriend, made national news. Then the cameras went away. 40 weeks later, with Cosby's father sitting in a jail cell, no one has been charged with their murders.
Houston Press |
Dianna Wray |
01-07-2015 |
Crime & Justice
Forgotten Assaultnew
A brutal attack on two transgender women in 2011 foreshadowed several troubling years of violent crime against the LGBT community in Cleveland, and the city's ill-equipped ability to respond.
Cleveland Scene |
Eric Sandy |
12-24-2014 |
LGBT
Tags: hate crimes
Movie Madness: A Bracket-Busting Look at a Year at the Moviesnew
From hundreds of films, we narrow it down to 32, then it's the Sweet 16, Elite 8, Final Four and the Two Best.
Boise Weekly |
George Prentice |
12-24-2014 |
Movies
Tags: 2014 in movies
Things Black Mothers Fearnew
Atlanta-based artist/author Carla Aaron-Lopez considers the woes of raising her two-year-old son in a world that already considers him a threat
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Carla Aaron-Lopez |
12-23-2014 |
Race & Class
The Legacy of New York's Fracking Decisionnew
New York's long struggle with fracking is over, except that it isn't.
City Newspaper |
Jeremy Moule |
12-23-2014 |
Energy
News Media Ignores Black Protestsnew
Black demonstrators in Oakland and Berkeley are taking the reins of a movement and designing their own powerful protests against police violence. But the news media isn't interested.
East Bay Express |
Will Butler |
12-19-2014 |
Race & Class
Why Are More Americans Failing the GED?new
Nearly 500,000 fewer Americans will pass the GED in 2014 after a major overhaul to the test. Why? And who's left behind?
Cleveland Scene |
Daniel McGraw |
12-19-2014 |
Education
Southern LGBTs Get Good, Bad Newsnew
Despite new information about social and economic disparities facing lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in the South, Mississippi continues to make slow, steady progress toward equality.
Jackson Free Press |
R.L. Nave |
12-19-2014 |
LGBT
Why Is Kim Jong-un So Afraid of Seth Rogen?new
Sony assumed North Korea would hate the movie. The question was: What would it do?
L.A. Weekly |
Amy Nicholson |
12-15-2014 |
Movies
Tags: Kim Jong-Un
Play That Backnew
The history, rise and current trends of the EDM scene and a close look at musicians and followers of the music in Worcester, Massachusetts. The story also explores whether or not accusations of the scene and drug use go hand in hand.
Worcester Magazine |
Joshua Lyford |
12-12-2014 |
Music
Over a Barrel, From Alberta to New Brunswicknew
The Energy East pipeline is causing turmoil.
The Coast, Halifax's Weekly |
Jacob Boon |
12-12-2014 |
Environment
This is What Democracy Looks Likenew
A new generation of activists emerges from the turmoil of the Ferguson and New York grand jury decisions.
Baltimore City Paper |
Baynard Woods |
12-10-2014 |
Civil Liberties
Tags: ferguson
Progress, Derailed?new
Has the Obama administration hobbled the Endangered Species Act?
Tucson Weekly |
Judith Lewis Mernit |
12-10-2014 |
Environment
