AltWeeklies Wire
Karma Cleansernew
Will it come back to bite you?
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Tray Butler |
04-09-2008 |
Advice
Tags: advice columns
Is Robert Mugabe Going to Give Up Power in Zimbabwe?new
After 28 years of badly running the country (first as prime minister, and since President Banana's departure in 1987, as president), it looks as if 84-year-old Robert Mugabe is loosening his grip on power. Not losing. Just loosening.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Andisheh Nouraee |
04-09-2008 |
Commentary
Moodswing: A Seven-Year-Old Alonenew
The art of protective lurking.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Hollis Gillespie |
04-09-2008 |
Comedy
Tags: humor & satire
Trusting Others With Your Winenew
Wine clubs are convenient and becoming more affordable, but one month you might receive a familiar California zinfandel and the next an alien Austrian grüner veltliner. The wine world offers so much choice that perhaps it's time to open up your mouth and trust.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Taylor Eason |
04-09-2008 |
Food+Drink
Tags: wine, wine clubs
Crud'n'guts: Detroit's B-movie Metal Heroesnew
A new lineup renergizes a Detroit band known for its sleaze factor: Think Marilyn Manson featuring ex Dita Von Teese or Rob Zombie at a sleazy strip club
Metro Times |
Brett Callwood |
04-09-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: crud, Devil at the Wheel
The Man Who Wrote the Sweet Book on Meadnew
Meet the author of The Complete Meadmaker.
Metro Times |
Todd Abrams |
04-09-2008 |
Food+Drink
Peter Anin: Covering Great Lakes Water Warsnew
A Q&A with the journalist whose book Great Lakes Water Wars is the definitive chronicle on an issue of importance to the Midwest and the nation ... let's be less parochial, two nations as a whole.
Metro Times |
Sandra Svoboda |
04-09-2008 |
Environment
Caucus Chaos in Texasnew
Local Obama supporters get tripped up by the Texas Two-Step.
San Antonio Current |
Gilbert Garcia |
04-09-2008 |
Politics
A Worldwide Hops Shortage is Bad News for Brewersnew
Brewers across the U.S. are simultaneously facing several seriously grave issues: an unprecedented worldwide shortage of hops, an unusually short supply of malted barley, an enormous increase in transport expenses due to the rise in fuel prices, and a severely devalued dollar.
Charleston City Paper |
T. Ballard Lesemann |
04-09-2008 |
Food+Drink
An Internet Campaign Against Camel Cigs Goes Nationalnew
Jenny Decker has been infiltrating parties and concerts sponsored by R.J. Reynolds around Portland, gathering free trinkets and promotional products in hopes of exposing how R.J. Reynolds does guerrilla marketing to entice young women to smoke. Her humble MySpace page has now turned into a nationally recognized campaign that anti-tobacco experts say is accomplishing that goal.
Willamette Week |
Shefali Kulkarni |
04-09-2008 |
Science
R.E.M. Finds its Religionnew
The band has acknowledged (in interviews and with the record's title) a need to re-focus and adrenalize things after recent efforts that disappointed aesthetically, commercially, or both.
San Antonio Current |
John DeFore |
04-09-2008 |
Reviews
'Battlestar Galactica' Goes for the Godnew
As the series gears up for its conclusion, it's becoming more contemplative, agonizing over how there can be faith without tests of that faith, and thus how real prophets can exist without fake ones -- how humans, tortured beasts that we are, can have certainty in anything without uncertainty about most everything else.
San Antonio Current |
Luke Baumgarten |
04-09-2008 |
TV
30th-annual CineFestival Spotlights Latino Filmmakersnew
CineFestival will highlight cinematic work from across the globe including the countries of Chile, Bolivia, and Mexico. What co-director Victor Payan is most excited about, however, is the number of U.S. Latinos who will screen their films this year.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martinez |
04-09-2008 |
Movies
Digging a Poet-gardenernew
Jesse Castro likes to refer to himself as a poet-gardener, which is why it comes as no surprise that his latest work, I Have Walked This Path Before, is a collection of poems worn by real people.
San Antonio Current |
Sonya Harvey |
04-09-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Spanish Wines Meet American Tastesnew
Somehow, without compromising national identity, Spanish vintners are now producing wines we want to taste at prices to suit every purse.
San Antonio Current |
Ron Bechtol |
04-09-2008 |
Food+Drink
