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Le Fooding: France’s New Generation of Eatersnew

Where the Michelin standards are based on the assumption that there is a right and wrong way to do everything, Le Fooding standards are based on the overall feeling of a place, food included.
Weekly Alibi  |  Ari LeVaux  |  04-12-2010  |  Food+Drink

An Offal Story: On Beef Cheeks and Barbacoanew

At my local store, none of the meat for sale is organic except the dog food. Unfortunately for my dog, I've been eating most of it myself.
Weekly Alibi  |  Ari LeVaux  |  03-30-2010  |  Food+Drink

Game Changer: A Company Stimulates Gamers’ Sense of Touchnew

Haptic technology is to our sense of touch what graphics are to our sense of sight, explains Tom Anderson, CEO of Albuquerque company Novint. “Our technology gives you a sense of touch in computing,” he says.
Weekly Alibi  |  Marisa Demarco  |  03-16-2010  |  Tech

A Brand-New Bag: The Women's Design Collectivenew

Women’s Design Collective is a program formed out of St. Joseph Community Health that teaches women basic craft skills. The hope, says Community Services Director Michelle Melendez, who’s responsible for getting the effort off the ground, is that women can use those skills in entrepreneurship to help feed their families.
Weekly Alibi  |  Christie Chisholm  |  01-19-2010  |  Art

Odds & Ends Salutes 2009’s Stupidest Newsnew

Odds & Ends gives even our dysfunctional and maladjusted readers a chance to feel holier-than-thou. Sure, you might have gotten hammered last night and drunk-dialed your ex, but at least you didn't try (and fail) to run over your wife with a dumptruck like that idiot in Maine.
Weekly Alibi  |  Devin D. O’Leary  |  01-05-2010  |  Commentary

Tristan Taormino, the Feminist Pornographernew

Taormino just completed her sixth book, The Big Book of Sex Toys. She's finished editing an erotic anthology for Cleis Press called Sometimes She Lets Me. And she's working on three new movies for Vivid, the largest adult video producer on the planet.
Weekly Alibi  |  Marisa Demarco  |  11-10-2009  |  Culture

Being the Average Dudenew

John Bear lives the life of an average American for one week. So what does the average American eat, drink and do during a week?
Weekly Alibi  |  John Bear  |  08-04-2009  |  Culture

We Crash the Rainbow Gatheringnew

In a desperate attempt to see eye-to-eye with this Rainbow family, I had even broken an eight-year hallucinogen-free run and eaten a mixture of honey and psychedelic mushrooms. But there I was, in the midst of a mellow trip, further from understanding them than I had been when I arrived.
Weekly Alibi  |  Maren Tarro  |  07-20-2009  |  Culture

American Consumers and Growers are Left in the Dust as China Goes Organicnew

Even as demand for organic food continues to explode, organic farmers in America are getting thrown under the beet cart they helped build. The Chinese are taking over the market share, especially of vegetables and soy, thanks to several American-based multinational food corporations that have hijacked the organic bandwagon they only recently jumped onto.
Weekly Alibi  |  Ari LeVaux  |  07-07-2009  |  Food+Drink

The Sometimes Illegal and Often Dangerous Sport of Urban Explorationnew

Urban exploration, or "urbex," is about seeking out forgotten stories, about searching for the places of which we know nothing, about turning down the dirt roads we’ve never before noticed and, above all, trying to understand them.
Weekly Alibi  |  Ty Bannerman  |  06-09-2009  |  Recreation

What's a Feminist Like You Doing in a Place Like This?new

Feminist art icon Judy Chicago now lives in Belen, New Mexico, long considered by this reporter to be the worst place on earth.
Weekly Alibi  |  Erin Adair-Hodges  |  06-01-2009  |  Art

Stallin': Larry Bob Phillips' 'Piss-Teen Chapel'new

Larry Bob Phillips recently completed a mural in the men's restroom at Albuquerque's Atomic Cantina. It's a beautifully complex mess of desire, sadness and digestion involving bombs, pasta and sex.
Weekly Alibi  |  David Leigh  |  04-14-2009  |  Art

The Alibi's Sixth Annual Photo Contestnew

Is photography simply the capturing of a moment, or is it the creation of it? Don't look at us; we got nothing. Instead, look at the work submitted by Alibi readers to our annual snapshot shindig.
Weekly Alibi  |  Erin Adair-Hodges  |  04-14-2009  |  Art

What Obama's Secretary of Agriculture Pick Means for the Future of U.S. Farmingnew

Former Iowa governor Tom Vilsack is a fan of biotech and ethanol. But he also palled around with Monsanto executives, and he may be pro-cow cloning.
Weekly Alibi  |  Ari LeVaux  |  01-13-2009  |  Food+Drink

'Mayan Cuisine' Cookbook is Not for Beginnersnew

Regardless of my inability to re-create the recipes in Daniel Hoyer's Mayan Cuisine: Recipes from the Yucatan Region, the book is still amazing. Well-researched and impeccably compiled, it's at least a fascinating read.
Weekly Alibi  |  Maren Tarro  |  10-07-2008  |  Food+Drink

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