AltWeeklies Wire
How Gilroy Turned a Garlic into the Country's Biggest Food Festivalnew
Today, garlic is as common in food as salt and pepper, but it wasn't always that way. Includes a recipe for babaghanouj.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Stett Holbrook |
07-17-2008 |
Food+Drink
LaJean Lawson Follows the Bouncing Breastnew
For more than two decades, Lawson has searched for new and better ways to keep women’s boobs from bouncing when they run.
Willamette Week |
Corey Pein |
07-16-2008 |
Sports
Lean, Mean Meat-Free Bodybuilding Machinenew
Robert Cheeke is a bodybuilder, but he has an even better reason to be proud of his massive muscles--they're made of soy. Cheeke isn't just vegan; he's preaching the good news that eating a plant-based diet doesn't mean being a noodle-armed wimp.
Willamette Week |
John Minervini |
07-16-2008 |
Sports
How Drugs, Deceit and Disaffection Destroyed Dallas' Most Dynamic Duo in Talk Radionew
Gregg Williams' departure imploded his high-profile, high-income career and aborted his 14-year marriage to Mike Rhyner on the highly rated Hardline. Down to its "Stay Hard" mantra, the wildly popular show was aural sex, eschewing traditional radio formats for guy talk.
Dallas Observer |
Richie Whitt |
07-15-2008 |
Media
An Entrepreneur Helps Chicago Mixologists Stay on Top of Their Gamenew
Chicago is home to some of the country's best mixologists but lacks educational opportunities for those with more advanced skills, including those who've already gone through programs at places like the Siebel Institute or Bridget Albert's Academy of Spirits and Fine Service. He aims to fix that with his mixology labs.
Chicago Reader |
Julia Thiel |
07-14-2008 |
Food+Drink
Craptastrophe: Record Rainfall Creates a Dung Dilemma for Farmersnew
Northeastern Missouri is home to a large number of industrial hog farms, known as concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs. Anywhere from 2,500 to 10,000 or more pigs are housed under one roof, and the millions of gallons of manure is stored onsite in uncovered manmade lagoons. The unrelenting rains haved caused the lagoons to fill to the brim.
Riverfront Times |
Keegan Hamilton |
07-11-2008 |
Food+Drink
Large Questions Go Unanswered at Olympic Trialsnew
There were four "elephants on the track" at the Olympic Track & Field Team Trials: banned substances, corporate sponsorship, the shroud of ugliness over the Beijing Olympics and the way we deal with these underlying issues while simultaneously cheering on the U.S. athletes at the Trials and Summer Olympics.
Eugene Weekly |
Chuck Adams |
07-10-2008 |
Sports
Tags: China, Olympics, Eugene, Beijing, sports, essay, sports & fitness, Olympic Trials, doping, Nike
Drag Kings Flip the Script on Gender Impersonationnew
Why can't a woman be more like a man? In Boston's drag-king subculture, they're remarkably similar.
Boston Phoenix |
Caitlin Curran |
07-10-2008 |
Culture
Tags: drag, drag kings
Mark Winne Examines the Politics of Eatingnew
The community food systems expert talks with us about how economic divisions in the US affect the way people eat. We also present an excerpt from Winne’s recent book, Closing the Food Gap: Resetting the Table in the Land of Plenty, which examines this problem in detail.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Mark Winne and Charlotte Jusinski |
07-10-2008 |
Food+Drink
TV Ads Signal a Widening Divide in Video Game Marketingnew
Ads for Battlefield 2: Bad Company imply that games aren't just for geeks anymore.
Charleston City Paper |
Aaron R. Conklin |
07-09-2008 |
Video Games
Brazilian Wineries Finally Come of Agenew
Not too long ago, the words "Brazilian" and "wine" would hardly be put together without a stern warning against a horrible hangover. Not that decent wine did not exist there -- it simply had not been made available for the general public, and much less for export.
Chicago Newcity |
Ernest Barteldes |
07-09-2008 |
Food+Drink
Colorado Springs Soup Kitchens and Food Pantries Could Soon be Out 'Real' Foodnew
Sucker-punched by high gas and food prices, increased demand, less assistance from government and food manufacturers, and dwindling supplies from food drives, the Care and Share food bank has fewer of the necessities it needs to help feed struggling families.
Colorado Springs Independent |
J. Adrian Stanley |
07-08-2008 |
Food+Drink
Alt Farmers Share in the Farm Bill's Bounty, but at What Cost?new
Even if the same law shovels tons of subsidies to rich farmers and agribusiness giants, the little guys growing organic food are at least catching some of the crumbs.
Isthmus |
Marc Eisen |
07-08-2008 |
Food+Drink
Zen and the Art of Cougar Huntingnew
They practice picking up young men at the grocery store, these older women who have never been married, or whose husbands have left them for younger stock, or whose soul mates have died of heart attacks or in car accidents. On a balmy Thursday at a hotel in Pasadena, life coach Zen Kern, simply Zen to his clients, instructs the ladies in his Cougar Class to pretend they've just spotted a cute guy contemplating the cereal at Ralphs.
L.A. Weekly |
Gendy Alimurung |
07-07-2008 |
Culture
Tags: Los Angeles, dating, Sex, cougars, relationships, older women, cougar class, life coaches, Zen Kern
Chicago's Last Coal Hauler is Down to Two Customersnew
Used to be coal yards were like taverns -- practically every neighborhood in the city had them. But today Paul Schoening is the last person in Chicago who retails the fuel, and he only has two customers: D'Amato's Bakery and Coalfire Pizza.
Chicago Reader |
Mike Sula |
07-07-2008 |
Food+Drink
