AltWeeklies Wire
Denver's Intiative 300 is Out to Put the Brakes on Illegal Immigrationnew
Although enforcing federal immigration laws is not the jurisdiction of municipal police, enforcing traffic laws is. That's what inspired Dan Hayes to come up with a way to get immigrant drivers without licenses off the road — if not out of the country altogether.
Westword |
Jared Jacang Maher |
11-02-2009 |
Immigration
Awesome Green Roof Designs Invade Cities, but On-High Agriculture Isn't Ready for its Closeupnew
It turns out that not all building walls can bear the extra load of soil on roofs, especially the box stores thrown up for the lowest price to move discounted goods. There are also security and safety issues with having so many people on roofs, issues that planners are still wrestling with.
NOW Magazine |
Wayne Roberts |
11-02-2009 |
Food+Drink
Santa Cruz Elder Abuse Case Goes Nationalnew
Last week, Congress heard James "Pops" Lee's story in a short documentary film prepared by the Elder Justice Now campaign, a partnership of the National Council on Aging and WITNESS, a human rights video documentary group, in an effort to push the passage of the so-called Elder Abuse Justice Act
Good Times Santa Cruz |
Jessica Lussenhop |
11-02-2009 |
Crime & Justice
Nirvana: Back in 'Bleach'new
The first Nirvana album was probably the last one you heard, but it marks a critical chapter in Seattle music history. It's worth going back to for a fresh -- or first -- listen, even two decades after the fact and long after grunge was laid to rest.
Seattle Weekly |
Chris Kornelis |
11-02-2009 |
Music
Stephen Harper's Colombia Free-Trade Cover-Upnew
In 2008, the House of Commons Standing Committee on International Trade issued a report calling for an independent human rights impact assessment before any free-trade deal with Colombia was signed. But Canada's prime minister beat the committee to the punch by announcing that an agreement had already been reached.
NOW Magazine |
Andrew Cash |
11-02-2009 |
Politics
Inside Chicago's Shadow Budgetnew
The Daley administration commands an off-the-books kitty of taxpayer money equivalent to a sixth of the official city budget. Now we've got documents that show what they want to do with it.
Chicago Reader |
Ben Joravsky and Mick Dumke |
11-02-2009 |
Politics
The Vignettes in 'Act of God' are a Random as Lightning Bolts Themselvesnew
Jennifer Baichwal skips from Canada to France to Mexico, never explaining who her subjects are or arguing why their near-death experiences should be linked. It's just a haphazard travelogue of terror, like 33 Short Films About Glenn Gould Being Struck by Lightning.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
11-02-2009 |
Reviews
Academia Under Attack ... by Zombiesnew
Humans vs. Zombies, an internationally played complicated role-playing tag game that can go on for weeks at a time, is bigger than ever these days. One local university recently mistook the game for real life.
Boston Phoenix |
Alexis Hauk |
10-30-2009 |
Culture
University of Vermont Faces a Decline in Body Donationsnew
The declining number of donors may be related to the cost associated with giving one's body to medical science. Although UVM absorbs nearly all the expenses, transportation costs are still incurred by the next of kin. In tough economic times, that expense may be too much for some Vermonters to shoulder.
Seven Days |
Ken Picard |
10-30-2009 |
Science
Michael Chabon Discusses Children and Popular Culturenew
Chabon is the jack-of-all-trades of contemporary literature. His literate, humorous, elegiac books include everything from a Pulitzer Prize winner about comic book creators to an alternate-world mystery in a Jewish free state. Now he's got a new collection of essays, Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father and Son.
INDY Week |
Zack Smith |
10-30-2009 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Dead Sexy: 'Girls and Corpses,' a Magazinenew
Girls and Corpses began online before also going to print, parodying Maxim, Cosmopolitan and other sexed-up lifestyle magazines. Instead of a pretty girl posing suggestively with a bottle of shampoo, you'll see her nuzzling a remarkably authentic fake corpse. It's transfixing. You don't know what to look at first, or whether to laugh or cry or vomit.
L.A. Weekly |
Gendy Alimurung |
10-30-2009 |
Media
Tears of a Clown: On the Glenn Beck Phenomenonnew
The ex-Top 40 disc jockey, recovering drug addict and alcoholic, convert to Mormonism and the National Rifle Association, is American popular culture at its most incomprehensibly weird and offensive. He's also a huge success, a hit, a phenomenon -- a star.
Ha Ha Tonka Finds Something New in the Shadows of Southern Rocknew
Growing up between the Ozark Mountains and the Missouri state park the group is named after, Roberts and his bandmates in Ha Ha Tonka play a beguiling brand of post-Southern rock they've taken to calling "indie rock meets O Brother, Where Art Thou."
Colorado Springs Independent |
Bill Forman |
10-29-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Colorado Springs Authors Imagine World War IIInew
If you want to get the government's attention, don't write a well-documented, thoroughly researched news article. Instead, write a well-documented, thoroughly researched novel.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Pam Zubeck |
10-29-2009 |
War
Another Year, Another Terrible 'Saw' Sequelnew
It seems like the Saw movies will never end, that they will return every year like an evil plague -- a scaly, slimy demon determined to steal your money. I know this very notion gives me serious nightmares.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
10-29-2009 |
Reviews
Tags: Kevin Greutert, Saw VI
