AltWeeklies Wire
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
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.
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
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
Activist Sued by "American Indian Patriot" Doesn't Accept Court's Rulingnew
A local Philly anarchist helped break up a white-pride event in 2010; almost four years later, one of the event's speakers -- a so-called "Native American Patriot" -- successfully sued him in an Oklahoma court.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Randy LoBasso |
02-26-2014 |
Crime & Justice
The Secret Lives of a Notorious Sperm-Swappernew
For five years in the early ’90s, I lived two houses down from Tom Lippert, the now-deceased fertility-clinic worker known these days for switching out his sperm and fathering one (or many) children.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Carolyn Campbell |
02-26-2014 |
Features
How Energy Companies Are 'Robbing the 'Hood'new
Low-income residents in Oakland and throughout the state likely will face higher energy bills in the years to come, while wealthy residents will see rate cuts.
East Bay Express |
John Hrabe |
02-24-2014 |
Energy
Is Thug the New N-Word?new
Thug is not just being thrown around in a few instances, it is the new politically correct code word whites use to n*ggerize blacks, or put them in their place.
Jackson Free Press |
Carole Cannon |
02-21-2014 |
Race & Class
Tags: n-word
One with bald eaglesnew
38 nesting pairs of bald eagles now inhabit the Worcester region, thanks to the efforts of Dianne Benson Davis and others starting in the early 1980s.
Worcester Magazine |
Lynne Hedvig |
02-20-2014 |
Environment
For Polar, It's a Local Thingnew
Just as Worcester has worked to establish its own identity and become the destination of choice in Massachusetts, the 132-year-old Polar Beverages has adapted to a changing business climate and separated itself from the pack as an independent bottler.
Worcester Magazine |
Walter Bird Jr. |
02-20-2014 |
Business & Labor
