AltWeeklies Wire
Congress for the New Urbanism Agenda Is Compact, Climate-Friendly and Competitivenew
To restart the economy while saving the planet, the Congress for the New Urbanism in Denver advocated traditional neighborhoods for all.
Austin Chronicle |
Katherine Gregor |
06-26-2009 |
Environment
While His Band Remains Inactive, Jon Snodgrass Plays Onnew
Officially, Colorado band Drag the River are on a kind of semi-hiatus. But regardless of what happens with the band, singer Jon Snodgrass is moving forward.
Orlando Weekly |
Justin Strout |
06-25-2009 |
Music
Orlando Opera Fans Get the Shaft, While the Former CEO Gets a Cruisenew
The Orlando Opera recently suspended its operations and filed for bankruptcy. Meanwhile, the opera board paid off contracts, gave its employees severance pay and, in a particularly stunning display of tone-deafness, now wants to send the CEO who oversaw the opera's collapse on a Caribbean cruise as a birthday surprise.
Orlando Weekly |
Billy Manes |
06-25-2009 |
Theater
Why the Demise of Florida's SunRail Isn't a Bad Thingnew
Florida's highly touted SunRail deal as presently conceived is a boondoggle, a corporate giveaway, an expensively ill-conceived effort that will subsidize exurban sprawl and do little to take cars off I-4. We can do better. SunRail's demise affords us that opportunity.
Orlando Weekly |
Jeffrey C. Billman |
06-25-2009 |
Transportation
'The Room' Takes Up Residence in Little Rocknew
If Levi Agee has his way, the melodrama-turned-cult-hit The Room will screen indefinitely in Little Rock.
Arkansas Times |
Lindsey Millar |
06-25-2009 |
Movies
Race for the Cure Critic Incurs Pink Wrathnew
Little Rock attorney Scott Strauss, as a man, wasn't able to officially enter the Susan G. Komen Foundation Race for the Cure and walk with his mother. He's protesting, and the result has been like a wave of Pepto-Bismol-colored napalm.
Arkansas Times |
David Koon |
06-25-2009 |
Policy Issues
'Sin Nombre' Gets an Under-Told Story Rightnew
Its utter lack of romanticism about riding the rails doesn't preclude Sin Nombre from finding heart in the land it traverses or between its characters.
Arkansas Times |
Sam Eifling |
06-25-2009 |
Reviews
Bullock and Reynolds Have Great Chemistry, But the Movie Around Them Falls Apartnew
Hopefully, The Proposal won't be the only time Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds share the screen—because the movie isn't half as good as the stars occupying it.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
06-25-2009 |
Reviews
Rational Ignorance: Q&A with Elections Expert David Schleichernew
David Schleicher, a law professor at George Mason University, talks about partisan branding and why voters don't know much about politics.
Tucson Weekly |
Jim Nintzel |
06-25-2009 |
Politics
Robert Colescott, Artist Provocateur: 1925-2009new
Tucson's most critically acclaimed artist was laid to rest in Sierra Vista last weekend.
Tucson Weekly |
Margaret Regan |
06-25-2009 |
Art
Tags: Robert Colescott, painting
Aerosmith's Joey Kramer Lets Loosenew
The drummer steps out from behind the kit to talk about his new book, Hit Hard.
Boston Phoenix |
The Sandbox |
06-24-2009 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Is Twitter Driving the Ongoing Political Crisis in Iran?new
If the question seems premature, that's because it is: we still don't know how the unrest that followed Iran's contested June 12 presidential election is going to end. But it's already being debated.
Boston Phoenix |
Adam Reilly |
06-24-2009 |
Media
How Cheap, Mass-Produced Food Is Killing Our Environment, Our Economy — and Usnew
The food we eat today is making us fat. It's making us sick. And the vast, government-subsidized system of agribusiness and mechanized corporate food production is inefficient and unsustainable, slowly ruining our environment, our economy, and our culture.
Boston Phoenix |
Mike Miliard |
06-24-2009 |
Science
'Little Ashes' Burns Time Instead of Blazingnew
Little Ashes is as pretty as an illustrated picture book, with wind-blown fields of Andalusian grass and gorgeous cliff-side seascapes, but has only about as much to say.
Boise Weekly |
Jeremiah Wierenga |
06-24-2009 |
Reviews
Portland Singer-Songwriter Laura Gibson's Meditation on Mortalitynew
Though somber at points, Laura Gibson's second full-length, Beasts of Seasons, never edges toward macabre. The album emerges as more of a tribute to the plights and longings of the living than a fixation on the inevitability of death.
Boise Weekly |
Tara Morgan |
06-24-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
