AltWeeklies Wire
An Obama Assassination: The Fear Factornew
Obama can easily laugh off a phony, self-serving stunt such as an assassination exhibit, but he can't laugh off the danger posed to presidents and those who aspire to be presidents.
Pasadena Weekly |
Earl Ofari Hutchinson |
06-23-2008 |
Commentary
Earthquake Experts Say There is a Way to Survive 'The Big One'new
November's Great Southern California ShakeOut -- the largest earthquake drill in U.S. history -- aims to find out how many lives and how much property can be saved through quake training and preparedness.
Pasadena Weekly |
Jana Monji and Nathan Solis |
06-17-2008 |
Disasters
Hate Speech Infests SoCal Daily Newspaper Websitesnew
Due to the anonymity and instant access to an audience that poorly monitored newspaper and social networking sites provide, internet hate speech is a growing national phenomenon. "It's democracy gone wild," said Deborah Lauter, director of the national civil rights division of the Anti-Defamation League.
Pasadena Weekly |
Staff |
06-17-2008 |
Media
Pasadena Schools Face Alarming Growth in Violent Racial and Girl-on-Girl Incidentsnew
The expulsion of four elementary school students for bringing knives onto campus and a rise in violence involving female African-American students have left city and school officials scrambling for solutions.
Pasadena Weekly |
Andre Coleman |
05-20-2008 |
Crime & Justice
Chinese Americans Reach into Their Pockets To Help Quake Victimsnew
The Committee of 100, a national group of influential Chinese-American leaders, is calling for donations to aide the victims of Monday's disastrous earthquake in China.
Pasadena Weekly |
Joe Piasecki |
05-20-2008 |
Disasters
The Morning Benders Makes Music its Own Waynew
It's small surprise that Talking Through Tin Cans feels like an informal balancing act between snappy pop-rockers and moodier midtempo numbers. Kinda like the flip sides of an old-school vinyl album.
Pasadena Weekly |
Bliss |
05-20-2008 |
Reviews
Even Presidential Candidates are Judged on Their Breedability Quotientnew
Hillary Clinton is raising a lot of gleeful misogyny in more than a few male supremacists -- men and women -- because she won't go quietly into the proper middle-aged woman pasture.
Pasadena Weekly |
Ellen Snortland |
05-05-2008 |
Commentary
Errol Morris Casts Light on the Torture Chambers of Abu Ghraibnew
Standard Operating Procedure is perhaps the most thorough record to date of one of the lowest points of American foreign policy.
Pasadena Weekly |
Carl Kozlowski |
05-05-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
A Pasadena Family Turns its Backyard into an Urban Homesteadnew
Melting ice caps, unchecked global oil consumption, mind-boggling volumes of trash accumulating in landfills -- the problems facing our planet are so big, it's tempting to tune them out. But when you talk to the Dervaes family, the founders of a home-based sustainable living resource center in Pasadena called Path to Freedom, it's the smallness of things you walk away thinking about.
Pasadena Weekly |
April Caires |
04-28-2008 |
Environment
"Uncovering Project Censored," "And Now the News," "Dead Men Do Tell Tales"new
AltWeeklies Award - Media Reporting
Pasadena Weekly |
Kevin Uhrich |
04-21-2008 |
Media
Tags: media
"Throwaway Kids," "Family Business, "No Place Like Home," "In Search of Brian," "Now What?" "A Long Way From Home"new
AltWeeklies Award - Feature Story
Pasadena Weekly |
Joe Piasecki |
04-21-2008 |
Media
Tags: media
It Ain't Easy Being a Pit Bull in Pasadenanew
Critics rip a proposed city ordinance that would force neutering of pit bulls.
Pasadena Weekly |
Andre Coleman |
04-15-2008 |
Animal Issues
Jeff Gordinier on How 'X Saves the World'new
While many of his peers wonder how Gen X got stuck between the baby boomers and today's up-and-coming millennials generation, and how they can still make an impact on the world, he opted instead to write a book about that societal dilemma.
Pasadena Weekly |
Carl Kozlowski |
04-07-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Sexism: 'The Problem with No Name' Rears its Headnew
Hillary Clinton is being told to step aside so Obama can take his rightful place as the Democratic candidate. Excuse me? We can run for office, but we can't fight like hell or even win?
Pasadena Weekly |
Ellen Snortland |
04-07-2008 |
The War on Women
Dick Williams Does Things On His Termsnew
Fifteen years after being deemed eligible, the no-nonsense, hard-driving manager who displayed an unparalleled ability to quickly turn struggling teams into winners, is finally accepted into baseball's Hall of Fame.
Pasadena Weekly |
Travis Hunter |
03-31-2008 |
Sports
Tags: sports & fitness
