AltWeeklies Wire
Eddie Izzard Takes off His Dressnew
Scheduled for five nights at the Kodak, comedian talks Bible Belt, Napoleon, spelunking and the future of The Riches.
L.A. Weekly |
Randall Roberts |
08-01-2008 |
Performance
Summertime, and Fish Salad is Easynew
In summer, salad nicoise a gift meal: easy, hearty enough to play center stage as a main dish and to stand up to full-bodied red wines, and special enough to serve when we want to show off our farmers' market riches.
INDY Week |
Sheryl Cornett |
07-31-2008 |
Food+Drink
Why You're a Moron if You Don't Like Rosésnew
There is a certain type of wine drinker who thinks of himself (it is often, but not always, a man) as being above drinking pink wine. When offered a rosé, he makes a pained look and says, "I'm not really into rosés," and what he means is, "I know a little something about wine, you see, and I know that white, sweet, and above all pink wines are not real wines. And I drink real wines."
C-Ville Weekly |
J. Tobias Beard |
07-30-2008 |
Food+Drink
Divorce, Connecticut-Stylenew
Our court battles are long, nasty and expensive. Is there a better way?
New Haven Advocate |
Daniel D'Ambrosio |
07-29-2008 |
Culture
Gay or Straight? Pick a Side Before Joining a Lesbian Softball Leaguenew
As a woman married to man, I'm an anomaly here in the South Florida Amateur Athletic Association, which defines itself on the web as "a gay and lesbian softball league ... for both gay and non-gay participants."
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Amy Guthrie |
07-29-2008 |
Sports
Beer's Summer of the Can Continuesnew
Thanks to Oskar Blues, the Colorado-based brewery we recently praised for canning their brews, we're reverting to the metal vessel that, for most kids' high school years, was the definitive method of putting beer in one's body.
Weekly Alibi |
Evan George and Alex Brown |
07-29-2008 |
Food+Drink
Fixed-Gear Fanaticism Rolls into Phoenixnew
Fixed-gear bikes have exploded in popularity in many cities across the nation over the past decade, and they've been getting more and more popular in the Valley since 2005. The wheeled weapon of choice for bike messengers and competitive cyclists for decades, fixies have caught on among a young and cool crowd.
Phoenix New Times |
Benjamin Leatherman |
07-29-2008 |
Sports
Runner Matt Tegenkamp Looks Forward to His Olympic Momentnew
If Madison's Matt Tegenkamp is feeling nervous about running the race of his life at the Olympics in Beijing next month, he's not showing it.
While You're at Work, Miami's Exotic Dancers Put on a Naked Lunchnew
While some poor chumps swing by the Wendy's drive-through, their friskier frugal counterparts are wise to the cheap eats and eyefuls offered at the bevy of Miami strip clubs open at noon. Where there's hunger, someone is bound to feed it.
Miami New Times |
Janine Zeitlin |
07-28-2008 |
Culture
Chicago Makes it Easier to Panhandle than to Sell Art on Downtown Streetsnew
Unless you're at one of those cookie-cutter annual art fairs, you're not likely to encounter artists selling their work on the street here at all. If you do, you'll probably also see a cop rapidly approaching. Street sales are illegal downtown and -- at the discretion of the local alderman -- in other areas as well.
Chicago Reader |
Deanna Isaacs |
07-28-2008 |
Art
Double-Mocha Nonfat Soy Sadness: Vegas Says Goodbye to Some Starbucks Branchesnew
Upon hearing the death knell for five of my favorite local Starbucks, I set out to enjoy them all one last time before they close on July 27, and to chronicle them here, so that they're etched in history.
Las Vegas Weekly |
Stacy Willis |
07-25-2008 |
Food+Drink
E3 Summit: The Business of Beautiful Killing Gamesnew
Faster, Dracula! Kill! Kill! Bloodthirsty peeks at the latest versions of Flock, BioShock, Borderlands, WolfQuest and Castlevania, plus Konami designer Koji Igarashi.
L.A. Weekly |
Gendy Alimurung |
07-25-2008 |
Video Games
Immigrant Soccer Players from Across the Globe Go Balls Out at a St. Louis Parknew
La Liga Latino Americana de Futbol has grown from a weekend assemblage of 4 teams -- all hailing from the same small town in southwestern Mexico -- to 28 teams, with more than 1,000 players representing nearly every corner of the map: Nigeria, Kenya, Iraq, Brazil and Hungary among them.
Riverfront Times |
Keegan Hamilton |
07-25-2008 |
Sports
iPod DJs, Party Models, and Other People, Things and Ideas Whose Time is Upnew
The over it issue: Our sampling of people, things, ideas and trends that have passed their freshness date.
Las Vegas Weekly |
Staff |
07-25-2008 |
Culture
Minnesota Helps Solve Salmonella Mysterynew
State agriculture department traces strain that sickened 1,251 to jalapenos from Texas.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Kevin Hoffman |
07-24-2008 |
Food+Drink
