AltWeeklies Wire
Priced Into Povertynew
Helping families paying unfairly high rents would go miles toward ending homelessness.
Pasadena Weekly |
Gisselle Acevedo and Paul Freese |
03-31-2008 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
Racing for the Bottom in Californianew
The state's public schools simply cannot tolerate governor's proposed budget cuts.
Pasadena Weekly |
Ed Honowitz |
03-31-2008 |
Education
Tags: Education
A Life on the Edgenew
When life kept kicking her in the teeth, Mary O'Connor finally bit back.
Pasadena Weekly |
Carl Kozlowski |
03-31-2008 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Eliot's Alphabetnew
Everything from A to Z with Eliot Spitzer in between.
Pasadena Weekly |
Ellen Snortland |
03-24-2008 |
Commentary
Dry Greennew
Xeriscaping allows you to go green while saving water.
Pasadena Weekly |
Jana J. Monji |
03-24-2008 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Smoke Screennew
After five years, Anne Sholtz has yet to be sentenced for her role in multimillion-dollar smog-credit scam.
Pasadena Weekly |
Chip Jacobs |
03-24-2008 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Gray Water: The Wave of the Futurenew
For communities serious about saving precious resources, green-friendly gray water systems may be the way to go.
Pasadena Weekly |
Jana J. Monji |
03-24-2008 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Tapped Out: Surviving in a World Without Waternew

Some 18 percent of the world's population wouldn't know clean water if they saw it, and roughly 2.6 billion people, says the UN, don't have access to basic toilets. Beyond that, scientists have been telling us for years that greenhouse gases are enveloping the planet, which is only getting warmer and drier.
Pasadena Weekly |
Kevin Uhrich |
03-24-2008 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Paranoid Angelsnew
Two indie auteurs, David Gordon Green and Gus Van Sant, take different approaches to high school melodrama in Snow Angels and Paranoid Park.
Pasadena Weekly |
Carl Kozlowski |
03-17-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: David Gordon Green, Snow Angels
Downloadingnew
Pasadena author Caitlin McKenna finds inspiration in REM.
Pasadena Weekly |
Karen Apostolina |
03-17-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Caitlin McKenna, Logging Off
Come Togethernew
Obama possesses the ability to bridge the gaps that exist between blacks and Latinos.
Pasadena Weekly |
Ralph McKnight |
03-17-2008 |
Commentary
Desert Bluesnew
Beating the winter doldrums and keeping up with Malian music via the internet.
Pasadena Weekly |
Bliss |
03-17-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Tinariwen
Bad News All Aroundnew
Pasadena Star-News and LA Times hit hard in latest round of newspaper cuts.
Pasadena Weekly |
Andre Coleman and Kevin Uhrich |
03-17-2008 |
Media
Tags: media
Taking Carenew
Financial, emotional and physical pressures associated with caring for people take their toll in an increasingly needy society.
Pasadena Weekly |
Chip Jacobs |
03-17-2008 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
Is Fox News Backhandedly Promoting Obama?new

Hey, don't get the wrong idea. We think it's great that not everyone with this arch-conservative "news" network is howling disapproval over the first viable African-American presidential candidate. Then again, maybe it's good to be a little bit paranoid about what the folks at FOX are putting on the air.
Pasadena Weekly |
Kevin Uhrich |
03-10-2008 |
Media