AltWeeklies Wire
Dough-Faced Nationnew
The doughface will always be with us; in a democracy he’s the dead weight the rest of us will always be obliged to carry.
INDY Week |
Hal Crowther |
03-03-2005 |
Commentary
Bush's Four Big Lies about Social Securitynew
An investment advisor for the nation's oldest firm dedicated to socially responsible investing explains clearly and simply the problems with the president's proposal to privatize Social Security.
INDY Week |
Farnum Brown |
03-03-2005 |
Business & Labor
Black Woman Risingnew
Tyler Perry, a star of the black gospel theater circuit, plays three roles in this tale of a woman's liberation from a vicious, no-good, two-timing rascal of a husband.
Best Books From North Carolinanew
Chosen as best book of the year is Blood Done Sign My Name, Timothy Tyson's detective-story record of the racially tense summer of 1970 in Oxford, N.C.
INDY Week |
John Valentine |
01-07-2005 |
Nonfiction
The Year of Mel Gibson and Michael Moorenew
Was this really the year when the two most significant movies -- though hardly the best -- were a pious Biblical epic and a caterwauling political broadside? Yep, it was.
The Past Is Present: A Look Back at COINTELPROnew
The American Civil Liberties Union has filed Freedom of Information Act requests asking for government files on the surveillance and questioning of nonviolent activists involved with anti-war, environmental and free-speech groups. Do Americans really want to return to the days when peaceful critics become the subject of government investigations?
INDY Week |
Jon Elliston |
01-03-2005 |
Nonfiction
Back to the Schoolnew
Mark your calendars: The Defense Department's recurring PR nightmare returns this weekend. From Nov. 19-21, thousands of activists will gather at the gates of Fort Benning, Ga., for the annual protest calling for the closure of the Army facility long known as the School of the Americas.
INDY Week |
Jon Elliston |
12-03-2004 |
Nonfiction
Hand Jobsnew
Girls gone wild: Five ladies let their fingers do the talking when they meet for a day of pornogami -- papermaking for adults. (Warning: explicit content)
INDY Week |
Olufunke Moses |
12-03-2004 |
Nonfiction
Goodbye to the Sunset Mannew
Lee Smith, one of the South's most acclaimed novelists, says farewell to her son, Josh, who died at 32 after struggling for years with mental illness. He is recalled through their annual sailing trips off Key West.
Tags: Health & Science
FEMA Denies Emergency Power Funds to North Carolinanew
What North Carolina needs most to deal with ice storms is backup generators for shelters, fire stations and other emergency outposts. But the Bush-era Federal Emergency Management Agency, which has cut funding for preventive strategies, refused to help the state purchase them.
INDY Week |
Barbara Solow |
09-23-2004 |
Policy Issues
Disaster in the Making: Homeland Security's Impact on FEMAnew
As the Federal Emergency Management Agency weathers a storm of Bush administration policy and budget changes, protection from natural hazards may be trumped by “homeland security.”
INDY Week |
Jon Elliston |
09-23-2004 |
Policy Issues
Tags: North Carolina, George W. Bush, Department of Homeland Security, FEMA, hurricanes, earthquakes, AAN, American Federation of Government Employees, Bush's first budget director, disaster planning, federal government, flood plains, floods, Florida Panhandle, Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP), Joe Allbaugh, Laurence Zensinger, Mitch Daniels, tornados, wildfires and other natural disasters, public policy issues
Not Appearing at a Venue Near Younew
Border entry is becoming increasingly difficult for international artists — what, exactly, are we missing?
INDY Week |
Grayson Currin, olufunke moses, Sylvia Pfeiffenberger and Byron Woods |
09-16-2004 |
Performance
Novel about Dancer Explores Russian and Gay Culturesnew
Colum McCann's 2003 historical novel describes dancer Rudolph Nureyev as an "international mongrel," someone who travels the world and is comfortable everywhere and nowhere at the same time.
INDY Week |
Byron Woods |
08-07-2004 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Mental Health Reform Would Work in N.C.—with Enough Moneynew
First the state ordered mental health reform. Then they took away the money to do it. Now programs proven to help people—and save money—will suffer along with their patients.
Photos Are Souvenirs of Torture in Vietnamnew
A former UPI correspondent in Vietnam comes across some pictures taken by a young—and naive—Sean Flynn, son of Errol Flynn, showing typical torture of Viet Cong prisoners in Vietnam.
