AltWeeklies Wire
Sexist Beatdown: The Soft Boner of Classic American Literaturenew
Why don’t we sit around praising the “unwieldy, impossible machines” (or, you know, penises) of white, heterosexual guys who are still writing masturbatory prose about lesbian threesomes involving strap-ons, after all these years?
Chicago Reader |
Amanda Hess |
01-11-2010 |
Commentary
Colorful Plastic's Answer to 'World of Warcraft' Is the Brainchild of NetDevilnew
Spencer and Braxton Jones have to get off this spaceship. It's teetering on the brink of a black hole. The only way out is via the ship's escape rockets, but there's a catch: The rockets' components are scattered all about the spaceship, in the form of little plastic blocks.
Westword |
Joel Warner |
01-11-2010 |
Video Games
Todd Smith's Shady Venturenew
If you asked Todd Smith seven or eight years ago what he'd be doing by 2010, the words "online sunglasses entrepreneur" probably would never have come out of his mouth. But after losing his job at Merrill Lynch, he decided to turn his fashionable hobby into a new online business venture.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Charlie Deitch |
01-11-2010 |
Fashion
Tags: stunners, Sunglasses, San Francisco, California, business, web, Bay Area, Pittsburgh, fashion, online
Parishes and Punks Collide in Local Monk's Debut solo Shownew
Father Luke Sheffer is a man of the West, born in Colorado Springs and he's a man of the East, educated through classroom and travels across Massachusetts, Russia and Greece. He's pulled to the monastery, and also to the "speed and joy and humor" of punk music.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Bryce Crawford |
01-07-2010 |
Art
Touch And Go: How Groping Happensnew
Gropers succeed in a system where sexual assault is minimized as an accident, a joke, a myth, or a fact of life. Over the next month, this column will examine how the system works to claim others’ bodies as public property while excusing away the District’s most prolific sexual assailants.
Washington City Paper |
Amanda Hess |
01-07-2010 |
Culture
‘The Emperor Jones’ Proves That Imaginative Direction Has Fled Broadway For Offnew
Rarely do plays that utilize puppets and masks succeed as admirably as does The Emperor Jones. Director Ciarán O’Reilly deserves all the critical accolades coming to him for resurrecting Eugene O’Neill’s play about despots in power, bringing it to crackling life once again.
New York Press |
Mark Peikert |
01-07-2010 |
Theater
Chef and TV Host Anthony Bourdain Dishes on the Food Scenenew
Anthony Bourdain turned his kitchen tales into a career, eating his way around the globe for Travel Channel audiences. It's been years since Bourdain worked a long shift over a stove at Manhattan's Les Halles brasserie, which still refers to him as its "chef-at-large."
Gambit |
Will Coviello |
01-06-2010 |
Food+Drink
Luis Gutierrez Is Close to Making It in the Art World Despite Struggling with MSnew
There's a lot about Luis Gutierrez that isn't immediately apparent. To look at the irreverent, brightly colored prayer flags, you'd never guess they were created by a man plagued by multiple sclerosis, an incurable disease that could one day make it impossible for him to paint.
Phoenix New Times |
Malia Politzer |
01-05-2010 |
Art
One-of-a-Kind Short List of the 30 Most Troubled Mentally Ill in Houstonnew
Jimmy Bailey is one of Houston's 30 craziest people, according to the Houston Police Department; in February, the department's mental health unit put together a list of mentally ill people based on how many times the cops have responded to a call concerning a person and how many times a person has been hospitalized.
Houston Press |
Paul Knight |
01-05-2010 |
Commentary
(Syn)gled Out? Club's Owners Insist Violent Rap Isn't Their Faultnew
Scott Collman and his business partners are reacting to negative stories about a violent couple months outside their club, Syn, culminating in a Dec. 27 shootout in a nearby alley that left one man hospitalized after apparently being shot by a police officer.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Anthony Lane |
01-05-2010 |
Recreation
People Who Died: Our Homage to Late, Little-Known Greatsnew
What we're doing here, as we do in this space each year, is take a moment to remember a few of the less celebrated citizens of the world who helped shape it in a way disproportionate to the size of their renown. They each deserve a public RIP in some way, and here it is.
Baltimore City Paper |
Baltimore City Paper Staff |
01-05-2010 |
Commentary
Amazon's Supply Chain: When You've Got the Monopoly, You Set the Recordsnew
Tech writers working this past holiday weekend were blessed with a last-minute gift from Jeff Bezos: On Dec. 26, Amazon issued a press release proudly trumpeting the fact that on Christmas Day, for the first time ever, its online superstore sold more electronic books than regular books.
Seattle Weekly |
Caleb Hannan |
01-04-2010 |
Tech
No Whiners: Lewis Black Has Been Hard at Work on a Booknew
Lewis Black says he was locked indoors for the better part of December, working on a new book. His work — standup, television appearances, books, etc. — is basically one giant, irritated rant.
Tucson Weekly |
Amanda Portillo |
12-31-2009 |
Performance
Thirty-Six Reasons to Give 2010 a Chancenew
Forget the epic suckage of 2009. Here are 36 reasons you should give the coming year a chance.
Las Vegas Weekly |
Las Vegas Weekly Staff |
12-31-2009 |
Commentary
Redskins Workers Fight For Their Right to Rightsnew
Turns out that as a condition of employment with the Redskins, workers gave up their right to justice — at least, the sort of justice Americans take for granted. And taking away employees’ ability to sue, as Dan Snyder does, is totally legal.
Washington City Paper |
Dave McKenna |
12-31-2009 |
Sports
