AltWeeklies Wire
Why Drink Organic Booze?new
There might be a practical reason: fewer, or less-aggressive, hangovers. As someone who suffers from mean mornings-after, this is great news.
Portland Phoenix |
Deirdre Fulton |
06-12-2008 |
Food+Drink
A Night in Guantánamonew
I'd volunteered to spend the night in the replica cell (which is modeled on the ones at Gitmo) because we've all heard stories about unlivable conditions at Gitmo but can't come close to imagining what it must be like.
Portland Phoenix |
Jeff Inglis |
06-12-2008 |
Civil Liberties
Torture in Maine's Prisonnew
AltWeeklies Award - News Story -- In-Depth
Portland Phoenix |
Lance Tapley |
04-21-2008 |
Media
Tags: media
Politics and Other Mistakes: "I'm Afraid of Me," "Unskinny Bop," "Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down"new
AltWeeklies Award - Column-Political
Portland Phoenix |
Al Diamon |
04-21-2008 |
Media
Tags: media
The Power of Lovenew
Music writer Carl Wilson tries to define the difference between "us" -- the music writers and hipsters who enjoy challenging music that's interesting to think about -- and "them," those who unironically embrace Celine Dion's naked, overpowering sentimentality.
Portland Phoenix |
Christopher Gray |
03-19-2008 |
Nonfiction
Important Event Reaches Predictable Audiencenew
As a marine tore a handful of colorful medals from his shirt at the Winter Soldier II hearings in Maryland last week, the crowd cheered.
Portland Phoenix |
Deirdre Fulton |
03-19-2008 |
War
Tags: war & peace
A Brief For Independentsnew
May I offer a brief for independent candidacies for US Senate and House seats based on my experience as an independent 2006 Senate candidate?
Portland Phoenix |
Bill Slavick |
03-19-2008 |
Commentary
Corporate Shopping Alternativenew
To me, the environmental benefit of community-supported agriculture has less to do with quasi-controversial "food miles" (some say that long-distance shipping can be more efficient than local trips), than it does with community involvement, and connection with my food.
Portland Phoenix |
Deirdre Fulton |
03-19-2008 |
Food+Drink
How Good A Carpenter Was Jesus?new
A cartoon illustrating some of Jesus's carpentry.
Portland Phoenix |
David Kish |
03-19-2008 |
Cartoons
Tags: cartoons
Beat the Clocknew
"The Earth is a terrible timekeeper," says Geoff Chester, the spokesman for this country's official clock-master, the US Naval Observatory in Washington, DC. That is only part of why we have Leap Days and Leap Years, and also Leap Seconds, Leap Weeks, and Leap Months.
Portland Phoenix |
Jeff Inglis |
02-28-2008 |
Commentary
IM Legendnew
An adapted screenplay about the last online chatter.
Portland Phoenix |
Christopher Gray |
12-27-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Francis Lawrence, I Am Legend
Hoopleville: Celebrating 500 Years of Artists Working Themselves to Deathnew
A year-in-review cartoon of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
Portland Phoenix |
David Kish |
12-27-2007 |
Cartoons
Tags: cartoons
2007: United in Contempt ... Almostnew
A year-in-review cartoon about impeachment.
Portland Phoenix |
David Kish |
12-20-2007 |
Cartoons
Tags: cartoons
Dancing About Architecturenew
If writing about music is like dancing about architecture, as the famous saying suggests, then Alex Ross is the Lord of the Dance.
Portland Phoenix |
Emily Parkhurst |
12-20-2007 |
Nonfiction
Collecting Stories of War's Atrocitiesnew
Thirty-six years after the original Winter Soldier Investigation into atrocities in Vietnam, a group of Iraq veterans who oppose this war are doing it again.
Portland Phoenix |
Deirdre Fulton |
12-07-2007 |
War
