AltWeeklies Wire
Don't Believe the Digital TV Hypenew
The transition to digital was supposed to revolutionize free TV. So what's with the high-def reruns?
Sacramento News & Review |
Cosmo Garvin |
10-09-2008 |
Media
Sympathy for the Newspaper CEOnew
Sacramento Bee parent McClatchy Company is headed for the bottom. Company head Gary Pruitt aims to stem the tide, or go down with the ship.
Sacramento News & Review |
R.V. Scheide |
09-11-2008 |
Media
Dreams of Obamanew
Barack Obama, it is true, is a transformational leader. But he needs a transformational movement to become a transformational president.
Sacramento News & Review |
Tom Hayden |
08-21-2008 |
Commentary
Rising Independent Voters are Really the Decidersnew
As California secretary of state Debra Bowen has tracked the increasing trend of declining to state party affiliation, presidential contenders Barack Obama and John McCain are probably paying attention, too.
Sacramento News & Review |
Greg Lucas |
07-24-2008 |
Politics
What the Hell Will it Take to Get You Out of Your Car?new
It's crossroads time for Sacramento Regional Transit. Rising gas prices and I-5 construction have raised demand for public transit through the roof -- but the system is completely unable to handle the demand.
Sacramento News & Review |
Cosmo Garvin |
07-22-2008 |
Transportation
Sacramento's Newest Newlyweds Take a Spin on Our Pink Couchnew
Gays and lesbians all over California married their partners last week. But if you're going to get your picture in the paper for getting married, shouldn't it be a good picture? And if you're thinking of rejecting marriage equality for your neighbors in November, shouldn't you meet them first?
Sacramento News & Review |
Cosmo Garvin, David Jayne, Jeremy Sykes, Kel Munger, Nick Miller, Andrew Nilsen, Kimberly Brown and Shoka |
06-26-2008 |
LGBT
Feel Ed Norton's Dark Side -- Againnew
Affable dork with dark side becomes rager to be reckoned with. Who but Edward Norton?
Sacramento News & Review |
Jonathan Kiefer |
06-12-2008 |
Reviews
Cirque du So What?new
A suicidal stunt man and a little girl with a broken arm? This could get messy. Compulsive, self-indulgent fabulist--both the protagonist and the film have a lot going for them.
Sacramento News & Review |
Jonathan Kiefer |
05-30-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: The Fall, Tarsem Singh
'Lady Lazarus' is a Fictional Critique of American Culture Both Great and Smallnew
Lady Lazarus is about more than the cult of (dead) celebrity worship. It's also about the commodification of art, whether that occurs in the high prices charged for a "definitive boxed set," the creation of artists in graduate programs or the anointing of "stars" in the popular press.
Sacramento News & Review |
Kel Munger |
05-30-2008 |
Fiction
Aiming for the White House, Cynthia McKinney Goes Greennew
The controversial congresswoman brings her campaign for the Green Party presidential nomination to Northern California.
Sacramento News & Review |
Seth Sandronksy |
05-27-2008 |
Politics
Praying for Recoverynew
AltWeeklies Award - Photography
Sacramento News & Review |
Max Whittaker |
04-21-2008 |
Media
Tags: media
Net Neutrality: World War Webnew
The era of an open, egalitarian and transparent internet could soon come to a screeching halt in America -- unless we fight back.
Sacramento News & Review |
Melinda Welsh |
04-21-2008 |
Media
The Spurlock Doctrinenew
As comedy, sure! As journalism, not so much.
Sacramento News & Review |
Jonathan Kiefer |
04-16-2008 |
Reviews
Just a Few Questionsnew
If Mark Doty's poems question us until we're certain, Rachel Zucker turns every statement into a question.
Sacramento News & Review |
Kel Munger |
04-11-2008 |
Poetry
'The War on Bugs' Explores the Pesticide Agendanew
We've come a long way from arsenic-tainted food (arsenic and lead were popular pesticides for decades), but, as Will Allen rightly points out in his new book, our determination to slaughter pests and increase yields has had some far-reaching consequences on health -- both ours and the planet's.
Sacramento News & Review |
Kel Munger |
04-11-2008 |
Nonfiction
