AltWeeklies Wire
Playing Indiannew

So you want to be a “Pocahottie” for Halloween? Lindsay Rainingbird hopes you might reconsider.
The Coast, Halifax's Weekly |
Lindsay Rainingbird |
10-26-2012 |
Race & Class
Tags: Racism
Scary Sudsnew

These pumpkin beers are less than smashing.
Fast Forward Weekly |
Mike Tessier |
10-25-2012 |
Food+Drink
Eric Deggans: Divide and Conquernew

Tampa Bay’s best-known critic publishes a provocative book on race, politics and the media.
Creative Loafing (Tampa) |
Mitch Perry |
10-25-2012 |
Media
Dada Issuesnew

How a trip to the Philadelphia museum of Art inspired the 20th century's most radical artists.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Shaun Brady |
10-24-2012 |
Art
Come to Romney Countrynew

Southern California is old turf for the Romneys. The first of the Romney clan came to Southern California to fight Mexicans.
San Diego Reader |
Matt Potter |
10-24-2012 |
Features
High Hopes for Cocainenew

Parkinson's patients start to benefit from a new test using the party drug.
Colorado Springs Independent |
J. Adrian Stanley |
10-24-2012 |
Drugs
How to Kickstarternew

Tips from entrepreneurs on becoming a crowdfunding success story.
LEO Weekly |
J. Christian Walsh |
10-24-2012 |
Features
Chris Kluwe Takes a Standnew

Minnesota Vikings punter pries open the last closet in America: major league sports.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Andy Mannix |
10-23-2012 |
LGBT
What is Ohio Thinking?new

Ohioans are being barraged by election pollsters and poll results. But what's it all mean, really?
The Other Paper |
Melissa Dilley |
10-22-2012 |
Elections
Tags: Ohio 2012 Election, Ohio Polls
Straight Outta Syrianew

Orange County, Calif. is home to growing numbers of refugees from Syria's civil war.
OC Weekly |
Yasmin Nouh |
10-22-2012 |
Immigration
Making Sense of the Jessica Ridgeway Tragedynew

What all of us need to know about the murder of 10-year-old Jessica Ridgeway.
Boulder Weekly |
Steve Weishampel |
10-19-2012 |
Features
The GOP’s Underground Election Strategynew

For years now, Republicans have been working themselves up into a frenzy over the prospect of systematic electoral fraud.
Random Lengths News |
Paul Rosenberg |
10-19-2012 |
Elections
Tags: Voter Fraud, Electoral Fraud
Two Students, Two High Schools, Two Divergent Paths to Collegenew

Jasmeen Wellere grew up on Chicago's south side, Hayley Himmelman on the North Shore. Both flourished in their classes, but they've faced very different challenges—and been afforded very different opportunities
Chicago Reader |
Steve Bogira |
10-18-2012 |
Education
I Had Sex at a Swingers Club and Liked Itnew

An inside look at Atlanta sex swingers clubs.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Melysa Martinez |
10-18-2012 |
Sex
Tags: Atlanta sex
Hospitals Facing Financial Pressures to Mergenew

How the story of hospital mergers, affiliations and consolidations has become a common tale across the state and the country.
Mountain Xpress |
Caitlin Byrd |
10-18-2012 |
Health