AltWeeklies Wire
Cops Go to Elaborate Lengths for Confessions ... Even Bogus Onesnew
In theory, the technique of cops posing as criminals to secure a confession is a sensible and rational approach to solving a crime -- but as the theatrical scenarios become more clever and elaborate, the risks of wrongful conviction are magnified.
NOW Magazine |
Alan Young |
02-23-2007 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Ecoholicnew
How to get earth-conscious floors without busting your budget.
NOW Magazine |
Adria Vasil |
02-16-2007 |
Advice
Tags: advice columns
Gorilla Thrill in Rwandanew

Officials can't stop tourists from going completely ape-shit.
NOW Magazine |
Jennifer Hollett |
02-16-2007 |
Travel
Tags: travel
'The O.C.' Dies With a Whimpernew
What started with a bang is ending, and no one seems to care.
NOW Magazine |
Barrett Hooper |
02-16-2007 |
Travel
Tags: travel
Alt.Health: Pain, Pain, Go Awaynew
Get beyond pill-popping with powerful turmeric and ginger.
NOW Magazine |
Elizabeth Bromstein |
02-16-2007 |
Advice
Tags: advice columns
Berlin's French Breezenew
Two French films make major noise at the festival, although Canadians are piping up, too.
NOW Magazine |
Cameron Bailey |
02-16-2007 |
Movies
'Radiance' Glowsnew
Lambert's first novel gently detonates the emotional land mines dormant in diverse characters.
NOW Magazine |
Zoe Whittall |
02-16-2007 |
Fiction
Tags: Radiance, Shaena Lambert
Medical Terrornew
This investigation takes the reader on an odyssey from Southern slave shacks to modern-day New York City, where medical investigators starved and bled young black males in a search for "the criminal gene."
NOW Magazine |
Howard Goldenthal |
02-16-2007 |
Nonfiction
Instant Starnew
The ex-makeup artist blows up on MySpace.
NOW Magazine |
Benjamin Boles |
02-16-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Jeffree Star
Satan Clawsnew
These Montreal rockers have the devil on their side.
NOW Magazine |
Tim Perlich |
02-16-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Demon's Claws
Shelter Scramblenew
Are shelter closings part of a strategy to push homeless out of the city?
NOW Magazine |
Jenny Yuen |
02-16-2007 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
Wall-to-Wall Wallsnew
Sooner or later our terror-mad world will be cut off from itself by security fences.
NOW Magazine |
Gwynne Dyer |
02-16-2007 |
Commentary
The Answer's Underfootnew

Soil is our best carbon trapper -- if only conventional agriculture wasn't churning it up.
NOW Magazine |
Wayne Roberts |
02-16-2007 |
Environment
Tags: environment
A Night On the Edgesnew
Toronto strongly encourages outreach workers to stop giving out blankets.
NOW Magazine |
Paul Terefenko |
02-16-2007 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
Cellphones Set to Get You Offnew
Sex games on cells are big business in the UK and Europe.
NOW Magazine |
David Silverberg |
02-09-2007 |
Tech
Tags: computers & technology