Design for Living: Affordable Housing Doesn't Have to Be Ugly
Metroland |
August 12, 2004
Metroland
Metroland was founded in 1978 as a monthly entertainment guide; a year and a half later it went weekly, continuing to focus primarily on arts, entertainment and lifestyles. In September 1986, Metroland reinvented itself as a full-fledged alternative newsweekly, offering...
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Go Forth, But Don't Multiplynew
An underground movement tries out a controversial way to reduce the homeless cat population while balancing humaneness and practicality.
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Coming Out About HIVnew
Decades into the AIDS epidemic, it's still risky to disclose your HIV status--and sometimes risky not to.
The Wreck Next Doornew
A homeowner doing his best to renovate an old house finds out just how much a slumlord next door can get away.
Metroland |
Darryl McGrath |
10-14-2004 |
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Climate change is forcing farmers in the Northeast to rethink their seasonal strategies.
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The 99 Percentnew
On the ground in Albany, and in the air everywhere, signs that a movement has changed the conversation about inequality.
Peaceable Offendersnew
New York State Police are cracking down on Occupy Albany protesters in Lafayette Park, but Albany County's District Attorney won’t prosecute.
21st Century Situationistsnew
Framed inaccurately by the press, The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear is best understood as a contemporary extension of the French Situationist movement of the ’60s, a mass inversion of rhetorical logic, meant to break the spectator’s passivity toward the spectacle and turn the obscuring force of mass media back on itself. Using pop cultural references and superficial Internet memes like the double-rainbow guy and “Hide ya kids, hide ya wife...” in the context of a once-powerful political forum was a Dadaist attempt to wipe the slate clean, to rise above the fruitless tit-for-tat schoolyard shouting match to which our political discourse has been reduced by the 24-hour news cycle and corporate spin-doctoring.
Evangelism Goes Online and Streams to You Live with LifeChurch.tvnew
Between this year and last, LifeChurch.tv's congregation swelled by more than 5,000 regular attendants at its 13 campuses, including locations in Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Arizona and Florida -- and the one here in Albany.
