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20 Greatest Non-Hits by the Rolling Stonesnew
Everyone knows that the Rolling Stones are a bunch of greedy amoral bastards. (Pick your anecdote from rock lore to illustrate this fact.) The geezers keep flogging their fame into the 21st century, long past sell-by date of their flesh and musical inspiration. Do they need to tour and release more memoirs to make more millions? It hardly seems like it, yet they've been doing it for 50 years now, and they probably don't know what else to do with themselves.
New Haven Advocate |
John Adamian |
10-11-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Classic Rock, The Rolling Stones
The Barter Economy Chugs Along While Paying Jobs Remain Hard to Come Bynew
Welcome to the bartering economy, a system of no-money trading that experts say is booming in Connecticut and across the globe. It turns out to be one area that the Great Recession has actually helped.
New Haven Advocate |
Gregory B. Hladky |
09-27-2012 |
Business & Labor
Tags: jobs
What Mowing Your Lawn Is Doing To The Planetnew
Americans reportedly dump more than 80 million pounds of pesticides and other chemicals onto their lawns and gardens every year. Aside from the potential risks for people and animals coming into direct contact with this toxic crap, pesticides get washed into streams and rivers, ending up as marine pollution.
New Haven Advocate |
Gregory B. Hladky |
05-24-2011 |
Environment
Medical Marijuana Closer to Legalization in CTnew
Rhode Island and New Jersey aren’t often put in the beacons-of-light category, but Connecticut is right now looking to those two states to help illuminate the tricky pathway toward state-sanctioned growing and sale of medical marijuana.
New Haven Advocate |
Gregory B. Hladky |
04-26-2011 |
Drugs
Framed for Murder?new
Recanted testimony bolsters another New Haven, Conn. man’s fight for freedom.
New Haven Advocate |
Betsy Yagla |
03-01-2011 |
Crime & Justice
Does Joe Lieberman Have a Chance in 2012?new
Reading the tea leaves on Joe Lieberman’s influence and future.
New Haven Advocate |
Gregory B. Hladky |
11-09-2010 |
Politics
Tags: Joe Lieberman
Google's Self-Driving Carnew
Is that what we want?
New Haven Advocate |
Greg Beato |
10-19-2010 |
Tech
Tags: Google
Anonymity & the Internet: No Commentnew
Why do websites let anonymous commenters just say whatever the hell they want anyway?
New Haven Advocate |
Brianna Snyder |
05-25-2010 |
Tech
Why Do Catholic Priests Molest Kids?new
The question is as simple as it is hard to answer.
New Haven Advocate |
Kimberly B. George |
04-27-2010 |
Religion
Connecticut Could Kill the Death Penalty in 2011new
The swirling political tides in Connecticut could lead to the abolition of the death penalty in the state next year.
New Haven Advocate |
Daniel D’Ambrosio |
04-20-2010 |
Crime & Justice
Q&A: Connecticut’s Budget Crisisnew
The CT legislature passed a months-overdue two-year budget last August, but eight months later the state is already $500 million in debt this year.
New Haven Advocate |
Christopher Arnott |
04-13-2010 |
Politics
Tags: Jodi Rell
Little Horrors: How Yale Made Friends With Tiny Flesh-Eatersnew
The dermestid beetle, sometimes called the carpet beetle or the leather-eating beetle, is dark brown and about the size of a pumpkin seed. It eats dead flesh and picks the bones clean. That’s why the Peabody keeps colonies of them.
New Haven Advocate |
Jenny Blair |
04-06-2010 |
Science
Tags: Osteology
Wilco Continues to Manage the Extremesnew
Wilco is a bit like America’s answer to Radiohead. The band is hugely popular, inspiring major-league fan adoration, loads of Internet documentation and speculation, and ample critical acclaim.
New Haven Advocate |
John Adamian |
04-06-2010 |
Music
Tags: Wilco
Dork Cool: Brought to You by Twitternew
Four Macbooks and a motley assortment of cups clutter the table at The Bean and Leaf here on a cloudy Wednesday morning. The monitors flash with Twitter and Facebook updates while multiple conversations are being held over the din of the coffee house.
New Haven Advocate |
Rebecca Lucente |
03-30-2010 |
Tech
O, Pioneers! Nowhere to Pole Dance in New Havennew
You might find this hard to believe, but there’s nowhere to pole dance in New Haven. For exercise purposes, that is. That’s what Becky Poplawski discovered when she arrived at Yale this past fall to begin her freshman year.
New Haven Advocate |
Cara McDonough |
03-30-2010 |
Culture
