AltWeeklies Wire
Green Tribunal: India and Enviro Lawnew
While America-centric enviros might think of India as "backward" with images of the 1984 Union Carbide Bhopal disaster and its toxic effects lingering, India just might surge ahead of us when it comes to its system for litigating development and the environment.
Eugene Weekly |
Camilla Mortensen |
06-30-2013 |
Environment
Designers and Models Work Together to Promote Healthy Body Imagenew
Many critics of the fashion industry place the blame on designers for fueling unhealthy body images by choosing models that more closely resemble coat hangers, but the truth is more complex: To promote healthier body image in the fashion world, designers and models must collaborate.
Eugene Weekly |
Alexandra Notman |
04-26-2013 |
Fashion
Occupy Medical: What Free Universal Health Care Looks Likenew
Doctors, herbalists, nurses and volunteers from all walks of life have turned a bloodmobile into a fully functioning mobile medical unit providing free health care, prescriptions, haircuts and more to anyone and everyone who needs it. Is this the new face of Occupy?
Eugene Weekly |
Camilla Mortensen |
04-12-2013 |
#OCCUPY
Talking with Strangersnew
Before Hannibal Buress started doing stand-up comedy at 19 in Chicago, he wanted to be the “black Howard Stern.” Since then he’s written for Saturday Night Live and 30 Rock and has appeared on Louie, Conan and Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Eugene Weekly |
Alexandra Notman |
03-29-2013 |
Comedy
Gettin' Cleannew
This is the creeping terror that haunts every recovering dope addict. We are a silent minority. And we are a growing minority. But, as with any minority, we have been misperceived, stereotyped, underrepresented and grotesquely vilified, often by ourselves.
Eugene Weekly |
Richard Kidd |
03-29-2013 |
Drugs
Prattling on with John Hodgmannew
The dapper literary humorist and comedian reflects on writing, the biology of laughter, his favorite comedians, high school and Battlestar Gallactica
Eugene Weekly |
Alexandra Notman |
03-07-2013 |
Comedy
The Electric Museum Acid Testnew
When artists use drugs, publications, shelter and lifestyle as tools for expression just as artists preceding them employed cameras, paint and clay; when artworks don’t fit neatly into a gilded frame or beneath a sparkling glass case, museums must adapt and turn the establishment on its head.
Eugene Weekly |
Alexandra Notman |
02-04-2013 |
Art
The Art of Restorative Justicenew
The role of the arts in restorative justice explored through the eyes of an ex-inmate artist, a painter who depicts death row inmates' last meal requests, an opera and Sister Helen Prejean.
Eugene Weekly |
Alexandra Notman |
01-11-2013 |
Art
Idle No Morenew
A new uprising for indigenous rights and environmental justice has begun. Kayla Godowa-Tufti, Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, Oregon on Idle No More.
Eugene Weekly |
Kayla Godowa-Tufti |
01-03-2013 |
Commentary
A Gallery in the Cloudsnew
An Oregon-based online gallery brings buyers and artists together from across the globe.
Eugene Weekly |
Alexandra Notman |
12-28-2012 |
Art
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Ducksnew
From Oregon's Duck mascot to corkscrew duck penises, it's time to pay attention to endangered ducks.
Eugene Weekly |
Camilla Mortensen |
12-28-2012 |
Features
Up in Smoke?new
Colorado's and Washington's creation of alcohol-like statutes for marijuana made Oregon a bronze-at-best state for pot legalization, but marijuana policy reform advocates are riding high.
Eugene Weekly |
Shannon Finnell |
12-20-2012 |
Drugs
Fashioning an Industrynew
Eugene fashion designers are on the cusp of becoming financially and critically successful, but one thing stands in their way - the lack of local garment production house. After a string of fatal factory fires in Bangladesh, where Walmart has their clothes made, these designers want to bring manufacturing home.
Eugene Weekly |
Alexandra Notman |
12-07-2012 |
Fashion
Born to Gunnew
In Oregon, you can get a license to carry a concealed handgun without even really knowing how to shoot.
Eugene Weekly |
Camilla Mortensen |
11-30-2012 |
Features
Tags: concealed handgun
Whither the River?new
How do you save an urban river in the age of global warming?
Eugene Weekly |
Camilla Mortensen |
11-16-2012 |
Environment
