AltWeeklies Wire
'The Ten Year Nap': You Snooze, You Losenew
Meg Wolitzer explores the "Opt-Out Revolution" in novel form.
New Haven Advocate |
Jolisa Gracewood |
04-01-2008 |
Fiction
Corporate Accountability Campaign Shows Michigan's Lowsnew
Among this year's Corporate Hall of Shame dis-honorees nominees are a few with Michigan connections.
Metro Times |
Staff |
04-01-2008 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
Who'll Pay to Keep Lake St. Clair's Water Safe?new
From the local to federal levels, officials who tend to the vital Lake St. Clair watershed say they're making progress, but they're also worried about the future, about water levels, about the threat of invasive species. They're particularly worried about where they'll find the money to continue their efforts.
Metro Times |
Sandra Svoboda |
04-01-2008 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Why American Mars Won't Let Gonew
"You'd hope for someone to grab you by the shoulders and go, 'It's time to put this thing to bed,'" says frontman Thomas Trimble. "But the only people I'd trust to tell me that are the others who are in this band, and they're as deluded as I am in their unwillingness to give in or move on to other things."
Metro Times |
Chris Parker |
04-01-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: American Mars, Western Sides
Alan Pogue is a Humanitarian with a Cameranew
His first solo book, Witness for Justice, is the product of 38 years of photography documenting liberation movements in the U.S., farmworkers, strife around the world, prison conditions, protests and campaigns.
Weekly Alibi |
Marisa Demarco |
04-01-2008 |
Art
Tags: visual arts
Comcast Can't Buy Lovenew
The FCC is holding a second public hearing on network neutrality at Stanford as it investigates Comcast's custom of choking or blocking certain content over its network. Comcast says it's all in the name of smart business, but opponents say the company's trying to cripple competitors.
Weekly Alibi |
Marisa Demarco |
04-01-2008 |
Tech
Jerry Springer Stumps for Hillarynew
How he shills for Clinton between tranny midgets and onstage brawls.
Metro Times |
Jim McFarlin |
04-01-2008 |
TV
Activists Mark 60th Anniversary of the Birth of Israelnew
Americans, if they really know their history, know May 14 as the day Israel declared independence from the British-controlled Mandate of Palestine. But over the next 57 days, some activist groups are planning to show why it is also known by many as "al-Nakba" or Arabic for "the Catastrophe."
Philadelphia City Paper |
Will Dean |
04-01-2008 |
International
Connecticut May Ban Idling Vehiclesnew
The legislature wants to snuff out endless idling with a bill that would make it an infraction to idle longer than three minutes, and would transfer enforcement powers from state environmental officers to local police. But the bill exempts some of the worst polluters of all: big diesel trucks.
New Haven Advocate |
Betsy Yagla |
04-01-2008 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Why is Connecticut's DOT So Screwed Up?new
The governor wants to split the agency, but outside contractors with big paychecks and utter incompetence are the hallmarks of the state agency.
New Haven Advocate |
Daniel D'Ambrosio |
04-01-2008 |
Transportation
Tags: transportation
The Wino Connoisseur: Nice Jugsnew
Several enterprising vintners have packaged their potables in generous jugs. Jugs certainly provide a consumer with needed quantity, but the egalitarian size calls for suitable pairings.
Weekly Alibi |
Cletus Oswald Smythe III |
04-01-2008 |
Food+Drink
Terrorism Wins the War?new
The decision by Congress not to override President Bush's veto of the bill outlawing waterboarding by our government and its agencies makes it unanimous: All three branches of our government have now weighed in on the subject and agree that torture is just fine ... as long as we are the torturers.
Weekly Alibi |
Jerry Ortiz y Pino |
04-01-2008 |
Commentary
The Promise of Barack Obama's Big Speechnew
This is one of those turning points in American history. We can choose one of two mostly failed visions of the past, those offered by John McCain and the Clintons. Or we can try hard to be what Barack Obama is -- the bridge to the 21st century.
Metro Times |
Jack Lessenberry |
04-01-2008 |
Commentary
Voter Resignationnew
People in West Philly's Carroll Park might vote, but they aren't sure why.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Tom Namako |
04-01-2008 |
Politics
The Herbivore's Dilemmanew
Big on growing but short on space? Grow bountiful herb and vegetable gardens in pots.
New Haven Advocate |
Gloria F. Locke |
04-01-2008 |
Gardening
Tags: gardening
