AltWeeklies Wire
Mutual Masticationnew
Sharing food marinates your mouth and lubricates your libido.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Zane Fischer |
02-03-2011 |
Sex
Fly Over Homenew
A conflict over Air Force training flights highlights New Mexico’s uncomfortable relationship with its military legacy.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Laura Paskus |
11-18-2010 |
War
Drill Downnew
Love it or hate it, the oil and gas industry is as much a part of modern New Mexico as red and green chile.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Laura Paskus |
10-07-2010 |
Economy
Rise of the She-Fish?new
With rising incidents of fish feminization, scientists want to know if contaminants are impacting the endangered silvery minnow in the Rio Grande.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Laura Paskus |
08-25-2010 |
Environment
Oil Vs. Real Estatenew
Who's funding the already-pricey New Mexico's governor's race? The big industries are battling it out. SFR breaks it down with interactive maps and databases.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Corey Pein |
08-04-2010 |
Politics
Classified Addsnew
SFR investigates the New Mexico component of the Washington Post's intelligence project.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Corey Pein |
07-28-2010 |
Policy Issues
Khalsa vs. Khalsanew
A simmering lawsuit coiuld decide the fate of a $1 billion Sikh empire.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Corey Pein |
07-07-2010 |
Religion
Tags: Sikh Dharma
Punk & Metal Bands Go Low Fidelitynew
The ongoing retro trend of punk and metal labels releasing cassettes is the result of an influx of music fans who appreciate a more lo-fi approach and who favor analog’s warm sound over digital’s crispness.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Alex De Vore |
05-06-2010 |
Music
Beating a Dead Morsenew
Two overriding factors describe the current state of telecommunications. The first is tremendous interconnectivity, allowing for an unprecedented level of information exchange, and attendant advances in media, health, science, activism and overall human understanding. The second factor is the stunning level of corporate control of this interconnectivity. In Santa Fe, we apparently misunderstand both.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Zane Fischer |
04-15-2010 |
Policy Issues
Tags: Julius Genachowski, FCC
The Stimulus Spin: Which Projects Did Your Government Pay For?new
The run-down innards of the New Mexico Office of Recovery and Reinvestment suggest a Potemkin stimulus—with a propagandistic online facade masking real economic rot.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Corey Pein |
04-08-2010 |
Economy
Nerds Triumph: Adult Humor Gets Knocked Down a Pegnew
American movies appear to be regressing at an alarming rate. The cinema has long fixated on the cliques, bullies, social embarrassment and occasional good times of high school, but stories about middle schoolers generally have been limited to Nickelodeon and Disney Channel programs.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Felicia Feaster |
03-25-2010 |
Reviews
Gail Y. Okawa’s Research Uncovered the History of Japanese Internment in New Mexiconew
Gail Y. Okawa found out in her teens that her grandfather, Reverend Tamasaku Watanabe, had been interned at the Santa Fe Internment Camp, which housed 4,555 men from 1942 to 1946 in what is now the Casa Solana neighborhood.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Charlotte Jusinski |
03-25-2010 |
Race & Class
Tags: Gail Y. Okawa, Tamasaku Watanabe
The Permaculture Credit Union Might Be America’s Greenest Banknew
Within a month of becoming president of the Santa Fe-based Permaculture Credit Union—a unique financial institution based, as the name suggests, on eco-friendly principles—Don Sarich had his first encounter with a skeptical government regulator.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Corey Pein |
03-11-2010 |
Environment
Five Ways to Be a Better Locavorenew
Some of us don’t like meat. Or eggs. Or cheese. Or milk. Or anything that’s been cooked. Oh wait, that’s totally not true. But some of us choose not to consume these foods for very good reasons.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Marin Sardy |
03-11-2010 |
Food+Drink
'Electrosensitive' Activist Sues to Stop Neighbor's iPhone Usenew
Arthur Firstenberg claims that the low-level electromagnetic radiation emitted by cell phones and other modern gadgets makes him suffer terribly. The side-effects of exposure, he believes, include “nausea, vertigo, diarrhea, ringing in the ears, severe headaches and body aches, crippling joint pains," and other ailments.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Corey |
01-12-2010 |
Tech
