AltWeeklies Wire
Kim Deal Talks About the Pixies' 'Doolittle' Anniversary Tournew
"I like albums and I’m kind of a geek anyway, so starting something from the beginning and then doing every song in order is appealing to me."
New York Press |
Adam Rathe |
11-19-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
My Oh Mayan! 2012 May be the End of the World as We Know Itnew
For the growing numbers who trust anonymous bloggers more than silver-haired CNN anchors, an election is the least important thing 2012 will bring. After all, what is a little campaign next to mass extinction?
Santa Fe Reporter |
Corey Pein |
11-19-2009 |
Culture
Lawsuits Decided by Juries Are on the Decline: What Does it Mean for Justice?new
The right to a trial by a jury of one's peers is still widely regarded as a great virtue of the American Way of Life. But statistics show that fewer Americans are exercising that right, at least in regard to civil lawsuits. We seem to have lost faith in our peers.
Arkansas Times |
Doug Smith |
11-19-2009 |
Crime & Justice
Die, Already! Lawsuit Exposes Latest Life Insurance Schemenew
When it comes to high finance, New Mexico is still the Wild West. Shady characters come from all over to take big risks in a casino-like, almost lawless market. One such story is told in a lawsuit filed late last month in the 1st Judicial District Court in Santa Fe.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Corey Pein |
11-19-2009 |
Crime & Justice
Ondi Timoner's Doc is a Timely and Cautionary Tale of a Life Lived Onlinenew
In the weeks leading up to the millennium, artist/businessman Josh Harris holed up over 100 artists in an underground bunker equipped with constantly running webcams. Timoner was hired to document the resulting madness.
Montreal Mirror |
Malcolm Fraser |
11-19-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
A Goth Girl's Dream Come True: Tim Burton Comes to MOMAnew
Often ghettoized into the cobwebbed recesses of haunted houses, Tim Burton's triumphant oddities and alluring grotesqueries are now anointed by one of the world's elite cultural circles. Now the auteur unveils over 700 never-before-seen storyboards, paintings, drawings, puppets, costumes, sculptures and ephemera at the Museum of Modern Art.
New York Press |
Jocelyn Miller |
11-19-2009 |
Art
'Precious': Who Wants Some Oprah-Approved Ghetto Tourism?new
Sexual abuse and incest are realities, and there's no reason why art shouldn't confront them. But when pop culture addresses them (and Precious, with its against-all-odds cheerleading and music-video casting, is very much a pop-culture commodity), the results deserve scrutiny.
The Portland Mercury |
Alison Hallett |
11-19-2009 |
Reviews
Tags: Precious, Lee Daniels
South Carolina's Broadband: How Officials Quietly Privatized a Key State Assetnew
To its supporters, auctioning off the state's broadband spectrum has meant snaring millions of much-needed dollars for the state's ailing coffers. But opponents say the deal privatizes the public trust and will deepen the state's massive digital divide.
Columbia Free Times |
Corey Hutchins |
11-19-2009 |
Media
Gift Guide: Consider Placing Some Great Indie Books Underneath the Treenew
Unemployment is still too high, which means many people are struggling -- so why not buy your friends and loved ones books for the holidays? After all, books are cheap, and if things get desperate, they make great kindling once the power gets turned off!
Tucson Weekly |
Jarret Keene |
11-18-2009 |
Books
Tags: Books, Gift Guide
With Neon Indian, 21-Year-Old Alan Palomo Makes Roots-Pop for the Internet Agenew
Psychic Chasms explores a landscape of romantic loss and betrayal rendered as authentically as any acoustic pop ballad. Still, the sonic diversity of that landscape stretches, mashes and digs beyond the known universe.
Tucson Weekly |
Linda Ray |
11-18-2009 |
Reviews
Tags: Neon Indian, Psychic Chasms
Is it Too Late to Save the World's Oceans?new
Like seafood? Us too. Too bad there might not be any of it left by 2048, considering how poorly we treat the planet's marine ecosystems. In fact, between climate change, pollution, and rapacious global fishing practices, we are essentially murdering the globe's oceans.
Boston Phoenix |
Mike Miliard |
11-18-2009 |
Environment
How Artsy Renegades Reignited a Movement to Reclaim the Urban Environmentnew
Increasingly, the tactics and spirit of outlaw urbanists, designers, and artists are being adopted inside San Francisco City Hall, and the result is starting to look like a real urban design revolution -- one that harks back to a movement that was interrupted back in the 1970s.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Molly Freedenberg and Steven T. Jones |
11-18-2009 |
Housing & Development
How San Francisco's Sanctuary Sellout Hurts Undocumented Teensnew
Before: The city coddled undocumented teen criminals. After: The city punishes undocumented teens who commit crimes (and some who don't, too).
SF Weekly |
Lauren Smiley |
11-18-2009 |
Immigration
The Battle Over a Woman's Right to Choose Rages Outside Louisville's Only Abortion Clinicnew
While the Stupak Amendment suggests there's a movement afoot in the nation's capital to scale back accessibility to abortion, Kentucky is already among a contingent of socially conservative states that make it especially difficult for a woman to terminate her pregnancy.
LEO Weekly |
Farrah Johnson |
11-18-2009 |
Sex
Ben Foster is Painfully Good in 'The Messenger'new
In Foster's first leading role, he plays a character who has just returned from Iraq and is completely cut off from his emotions, even as he's assigned the most emotional job of all, that of a casualty-notification officer.
San Diego CityBeat |
Anders Wright |
11-18-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
