AltWeeklies Wire
Derby Girls Draw in Fansnew
Career women assume tough-girl alter egos at night to compete in a new breed of roller derbies.
Student of Concernnew
Will we be more secure -- or just less competitive -- if the government forces hundreds of thousands of international science students to get export licenses simply to look through a microscope?
SF Weekly |
Cristi Hegranes |
06-02-2005 |
International
The Kids All Writenew
An anthology of young writers sets out to prove that this generation is still reading and writing, no matter what some studies say.
SF Weekly |
Karen Zuercher |
06-02-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Bullshitting the Lie Detectornew
What does it take to get on reality TV? David Crosby’s drug record, some Photoshop skills, and a healthy imagination, apparently.
Another Brick in the Wallnew
If the dismally morose Daybreak is any indication, the flavor of Swedish misery is remarkably similar to the kind we do here in America -- only colder and with less natural light.
Club Lifenew
A dreamy mood movie, 3-Iron is at times deliciously sensual, creepily somnolent, whimsically spiritual, and disturbingly violent. But it is never quite coherent.
Strike at SF Chronicle Seems Unlikelynew
With labor contracts up in July, the paper's labor unions face a near-impossible task: maintaining some of the best contracts in the industry in the teeth of one of the worst newspaper slumps anywhere.
New SF Chonicle Publisher Takes On Staffing Issuesnew
Frank Vega has been cast as a villain, but he may be just what the Hearst empire needs to defeat the dark forces of the new economy.
Save the Cute Animals!new
It's time to speak out against the inhumane treatment of animals -- especially the really cute ones. Here's what's hot and what's not in terms of animal rights protests.
SF Conservatory Preps Students for Quiet Marketplacenew
The arcane system of conservatory education floods the tight market with one fairly unemployable graduating class of single-minded violinists and bassoonists and flutists after the next, and audiences for classical music have been shrinking for years.
The 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Public Relationsnew
A Pulitzer Prize went to a series of newspaper editorials that resulted from the efforts of a publicist for Environmental Defense, Jennifer Witherspoon -- but without giving her any credit.
Dumb As a Potted Plantnew
California legislator Mark Leno aligned himself with potheads by introducing a bill that would create special agricultural licenses allowing farmers to grow industrial hemp.
SF Weekly |
Matt Smith |
04-12-2005 |
Commentary
A Visit With a Prospective Popenew
Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga, the first cardinal to hail from Honduras, would make a very good pope -- at least in the secular, political sense.
SF Weekly |
John Mecklin |
04-12-2005 |
Commentary
The Fight Over California's Pension Fundnew
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger battles with the Democrats for control of an investment portfolio that exerts more global financial influence than the entire economies of many sovereign nations.
Rose in Bloomnew
The title characters in this highly literate film are an unreconstructed hippie remnant from the 1960s and his dreamy-eyed teenage daughter, who live in self-imposed exile on an island off the mid-Atlantic coast.
