AltWeeklies Wire
Digital Warriornew
Remembering an internet activist and innovator who fought to liberate knowledge in our annual Freedom of Information coverage.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Guardian Staff Writers |
03-12-2014 |
Tech
The Grass Menagerienew
Marijuana use is largely kept in the dark in Louisiana, but lawmakers will consider a number of pot reform laws this year.
Dear New York Times, Alt-Weeklies are Decidedly Not "Over"new
For some reason, media writers in the past couple of years have been throwing shade at alt-weeklies specifically. Are alt-weeklies struggling financially? Yes -- but so is almost every media property in this country that's not funded by a billionaire.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Deirdra Funcheon |
03-07-2014 |
Media
Meet the Babymakernew
How one same-sex couple turned its struggle to make a family into a mission
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Rodney Carmichael |
03-07-2014 |
LGBT
A Traffic Ticket and a Bullet Through the Chestnew
As the feds investigate the Cleveland Police Department's use of deadly force, another story emerges of an unarmed man shot by cops in one of downtown's busiest entertainment districts.
Cleveland Scene |
Doug Brown |
03-07-2014 |
Crime & Justice
Weathering the Stormnew
Extreme weather and climate change's effects on prairie birds.
VUE Weekly |
Rebecca Medel |
03-07-2014 |
Environment
5 South Carolina Authors You Wish You’d Heard Ofnew
South Carolina earns its bad press from time to time, but we have at least one reason to hold our heads up: Our literary pedigree ain't half bad.
Charleston City Paper |
Paul Bowers |
03-07-2014 |
Books
Man, Woman, and Another Mannew
I once worked with a man who came out as gay after 20 years of marriage and two children. Accepting his true self, and then revealing it to the rest of the world, was a struggle for him; he was raised at a time when homosexual men and women were made to believe that their very existence was a slap in the face to the natural order. Many stayed in the closet, conformed as best they could, and the result was a lot of unhappy marriages. One such marriage lies at the center of the Taiwanese film “Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow.”
Worcester Magazine |
Jim Keogh |
03-07-2014 |
Reviews
The Very Merry Un-Gangs of Disneylandnew
Droves of tattoo-sporting, vest-wearing nerds roam the Happiest Place On Earth. They don't make war, they say—they make magic.
What's a Scofield Thayer?new
What do you call a person who was slandered by Ernest Hemingway, cuckolded by E.E. Cummings, befriended and promoted T.S. Eliot, treated by Sigmund Freud, led modernist art’s charge into American culture in the 1920s and declared officially insane not long after? A damn good subject for a biography.
Worcester Magazine |
Jeremy Shulkin |
02-27-2014 |
Books
Shelterednew
"It's amazing how quickly life can change" — The Louisville homeless share their stories of circumstances and bad decisions, of loss and love.
LEO Weekly |
April Corbin |
02-26-2014 |
Homelessness
Who Killed the Romantic Comedy?new
Rom-coms used to be a cash cow — and wildly popular with audiences. What happened?
L.A. Weekly |
Amy Nicholson |
02-26-2014 |
Movies
Tags: Romantic Comedies
Mental Illness: Roads to Wellnessnew
For many people, serious mental illness — schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, severe depression — is a lifelong struggle causing hardships that others can't begin to imagine.
City Newspaper |
Tim Louis Macaluso |
02-26-2014 |
Health
Trading Placesnew
Yobel International combats the sex trade via fair trade, but that's only half the mission.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Matthew Schniper |
02-26-2014 |
Features
