AltWeeklies Wire
Loose Girls Have Rights, Toonew
Whether Kobe Bryant was guilty or innocent, he should have made his apology correctly and with style.
New York Press |
Judy McGuire |
10-01-2004 |
Commentary
Best Example of Hypocrisy in Big Media: Tag — You're Outnew
When it comes to outing gay people, newspapers have certain standards that they like to herald, but if they can get away with it, let the presses roll!
New York Press |
Michelangelo Signorile |
10-01-2004 |
Media
John Kerry Deserves Award As Best Phony Baloneynew
Campaign adviser Joe Lockhart's suggestion that Interim Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi is a puppet of the U.S. is even worse than John Kerry's criticism of the visiting dignitary.
New York Press |
Russ Smith |
10-01-2004 |
Commentary
Kingdom of the Sick: Recovering Lustnew
After falling ill last year and experiencing everything that came afterward—a month in the hospital, the removal of my spleen, many rounds of chemotherapy—I felt that my sex life was over.
New York Press |
Henry Flesh |
10-01-2004 |
Science
Suspect Had Potato Chip Resembling Osama bin Ladennew
The Secret Service was hunting for a man who had quotes from George Orwell's 1984 and the Declaration of Independence on the walls of his home.
New York Press |
Staff Writers |
10-01-2004 |
Comedy
Author of The Outsiders Leaves the Young Adult Sectionnew
S.E. Hinton's Hawkes Harbor marks her first voyage into the fantastic. The novel about street-tough orphan Jamie Sommers features pirates, jewel smugglers and one extended encounter with a vampire.
New York Press |
Brian Heater |
09-24-2004 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Can the GOP Protect the National-Security Lie Until November?new
If voters were forced to smell the George W. Bush record up close, we'd be looking down the barrel of a 1964-style John Kerry trounce in November, followed by several high-level prosecutions and a steep, generational decline in the fortunes of the Republican Party.
New York Press |
Alexander Zaitchik |
09-24-2004 |
Commentary
So Prozac Depresses Kids? Let Them Eat Dopenew
If kids are having suicidal thoughts after taking antidepressants, it might very well be that they are not taking enough of them, not mixing them with hard alcohol, and not knowing enough to chase the crashes with valium or vicodin or even, in a pinch, a whole bottle of Ibuprofen.
New York Press |
Matt Taibbi |
09-24-2004 |
Comedy
The Sky Is Always Falling, Even Before Planetoid Toutatisnew
As the world awaits the passing — or crashing — of planetoid Toutatis, a writer reflects on the doomsday tradition and our own end-times culture.
New York Press |
David Ritchie |
09-24-2004 |
Religion
The Original Playboy Star: An Interview With Joe Namath's Biographernew
Biographer Mark Kriegel tells how he pursued the story of Joe Namath, the football star who was both old-school tough guy and new-fangled hustler. In late middle age, Namath found himself in pain and alone with a bottle.
New York Press |
C.J. Sullivan |
09-17-2004 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
The Doctor Gets Brandednew
Perhaps there are those who log on daily to ESPN.com and dig up columns by former print journalism mavens like Hunter S. Thompson. More likely, ESPN could repackage Ernest Hemingway for a live web chat and few wanderers among the cluttered sports media landscape would take notice.
New York Press |
Spike Vrusho |
09-08-2004 |
Nonfiction
Ineffectual Protests Prove Times Have Changednew
In the conformist atmosphere of the late '50s and early '60s, the individual was a threat. But conformity looks a lot different now than it did then. Example: Outlandish dress is now for sale in 1,000 flavors, and absolutely no one is threatened by it.
New York Press |
Matt Taibbi |
09-08-2004 |
Commentary
1001 Things to Hate About the Conventionnew
One reason to hate the convention is that the Swift Boat story got knocked off front pages just as it was starting to backfire. And then there are the other 1,000.
New York Press |
New York Press Staff |
09-02-2004 |
Politics
911 Omissions: Who Needs Henry Kissinger, After All?new
The only way to explain the best-seller status of this dry, stiff and cynical book is to understand the 9/11 disaster as a national trauma so intense that the co-dependent American family is still reaching for anything that will assure it.
New York Press |
Sander Hicks |
08-26-2004 |
Nonfiction
The Illustrator at War: A Q&A With Steve Brodnernew
The cartoonist's trademark style is perhaps best described as psychedelic-progressive. If Howard Zinn ever enjoyed peyote visions, they'd likely find a home in Brodner's nightmarish political dreamscapes.
New York Press |
Alexander Zaitchik |
08-26-2004 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
