AltWeeklies Wire
For Dr. Amir Shervin, the Iranian Hostage Crisis Lives Onnew
An Iranian physician trying to right a 29-year-old wrong has a scrape with police and gets charged with assault by an aide to Senator Boxer.
East Bay Express |
Greg M. Schwartz |
04-23-2008 |
International
"The Titmaster Tommy Lee," "Race Against Rockism" and "Powerpop for Now People"new
AltWeeklies Award - Music Criticism
East Bay Express |
Rob Harvilla |
04-21-2008 |
Media
Tags: media
"A Man Named Sue"new
AltWeeklies Award - Feature Story
East Bay Express |
Will Harper |
04-21-2008 |
Media
Tags: media
Lizard is a Ratnew
AltWeeklies Award - Feature Story
East Bay Express |
Justin Berton |
04-21-2008 |
Media
Tags: media
Roboscalpernew
AltWeeklies Award - Arts Feature
East Bay Express |
David Downs |
04-21-2008 |
Media
Tags: media
A Worker's Life Under H&R Blocknew
Tax season is over and you know how much you're getting back. Some workers at H&R Block wish they could say that about their wages.
East Bay Express |
Steve Koppman |
04-17-2008 |
Business & Labor
The Biggest Fuck-Up in the History of Mainstream Media Hip-Hop Coveragenew
The Los Angeles Times royally screwed up a big story about Tupac's 1994 robbery and shooting. What else did it get wrong?
East Bay Express |
Eric K. Arnold |
04-10-2008 |
Media
Young, Asian American, and Christiannew
UC Berkeley is home to some of the brightest young minds in the country -- and many of them are increasingly drawn to evangelical Christianity.
East Bay Express |
Kathleen Richards |
04-03-2008 |
Religion
Tags: religion
Who Baited Whom at Berkeley Rallies?new
Protesters allege brutality, but bystander says activists hectored cops while hiding behind children.
East Bay Express |
Anneli Rufus |
03-27-2008 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
The Kleercut Boycott: Outcome Undeterminednew
It's hard to boycott a consumer product when you can't determine who buys it.
East Bay Express |
Anna McCarthy |
03-20-2008 |
Environment
Tags: environment, kleenex
Nuclear CSI: New Deterrence for a New Eranew
David Smith of Lawrence Livermore Lab is helping to develop means of tracing the location of stray nuclear materials.
East Bay Express |
Eliza Strickland |
03-05-2008 |
Science
The East Bay Crime Wave Comes to Campusnew
A recent burglary at Oakland's Fremont High was just the latest in a long series of thefts at area high schools. Thieves are costing the district about $500,000 a year -- and they're winning.
East Bay Express |
Matthew Green |
02-28-2008 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Career Opportunities?new
No Child Left Behind set off a gold rush for tutoring companies, but California isn't keeping up.
East Bay Express |
Emma Brown, Sierra Filucci and Sabrina Shankman |
02-14-2008 |
Education
Is Vaccine Gardasil Responsible For Deaths?new
Health workers reported 4,500 Gardasil-related incidents in the federal government's Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System. All these reports from health-care workers and individuals have some people worried about the drug's side effects and safety.
East Bay Express |
Tom Grant |
02-06-2008 |
The War on Women
Tags: women's issues
Music Geneticists Mine Individual Tastesnew
The medium changes and the musical tides may briefly ebb, but demand for recorded music never wanes. And competition remains heated to win the dollars that come from sound delivery.
East Bay Express |
Chris Parker |
01-30-2008 |
Media
Tags: media
