AltWeeklies Wire
Working for Peanutsnew
The Complete Peanuts: 1950-1952 offers readers insight into the rough-and-tumble origins of the classic comic strip.
Gambit |
Alex Rawls |
07-21-2004 |
Nonfiction
Write Place, Write Timenew
While his latest CD is an occasion to celebrate his musical persona once again, Dr. John should also be appreciated as one of New Orleans' great songwriters.
Gambit |
John Swenson |
07-21-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Ruby Bridges and Ruby Hallnew
In 1960, the nation watched 6-year-old Ruby Bridges integrate William Frantz Elementary School. Today, Ruby Hall lives quietly in New Orleans and rents a storage facility just to keep the mail she receives from schoolkids across the country.
Gambit |
Katy Reckdahl |
07-12-2004 |
Race & Class
Prince and the Evolutionnew
His name is Prince again, and he's still funky, but did he ever stop?
Gambit |
Alex Rawls |
07-12-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Prince, musicology
After 25-Year Career, Prostitute Quits the Businessnew
Oral history of an anonymous woman who spent nearly her entire adult life as a high-class call girl, recently left the lifestyle and is struggling to build a future without it.
Atkins Diet Associated with Health Dangersnew
"Atkins sold his diet as a gift wrapped in a bacon cheeseburger -- no bun, but with a cheesecake on the side," says Jody Gorran, whose time on the low-carb regime left him slim but with an artery blockage. "I wanted to lose weight, so I made a Faustian deal with the devil, and the devil was Robert Atkins."
