AltWeeklies Wire
Putting the B in 'B.C.'new
Ten thousand years ago, we were all swarthy and hot and had dreadlocks.
Arkansas Times |
Matthew Reed |
03-13-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: 10,000 B.C., Roland Emmerich
'Horton': Microcosmic Dustnew
Who says this latest Dr. Seuss adaptation doesn't have its charms?
Fort Worth Weekly |
Cole Williams |
03-13-2008 |
Reviews
Collin Herring is Tearing Up Rootsnew
The Fort Worth singer-songwriter's Past Life Crashing has been a long train running and a long time coming.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Anthony Mariani |
03-13-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Collin Herring, Past Life Crashing
Abortion-Cancer Link Disputednew
University of Arkansas oncologists says evidence is to the contrary.
Arkansas Times |
Leslie Newell Peacock |
03-13-2008 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
Is Tarrant County, Texas, Going from Red to Blue?new
In recent years, it has become something of a star in the Republican crown: Among urban counties with more a million in population, no county usually votes more heavily Republican than Tarrant, usually by about a 60-40 difference. But this month's primary shows that grip might be slipping.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Dan McGraw |
03-13-2008 |
Politics
Stung by a Middlemannew
"They make it sound like all these people [in foreclosure] are in over their heads," Wilma Vaughn says, "but they're in over their heads because these companies put them in over their heads."
Tags: Economic Issues
Buyer Bewarenew
Unsuspecting borrowers are often suckered into unfavorable loans with promises of low monthly payments or interest rates. Here are several terms that signal you could be entering a bad deal.
Tags: Economic Issues
North Texas is a Blue-Collar Paradisenew
The gas drilling boom is putting North Texas workers on Easy Street -- for now.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Peter Gorman |
03-13-2008 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
Has New York's Countercultural Mudtruck Turned Raging Capitalist?new
The coffee truck's founders are considering a lawsuit against a company based in Detroit, Mich. for what they consider to be a stolen logo and stolen name.
New York Press |
Erik Shilling |
03-13-2008 |
Food+Drink
Gender, Race and Morenew
Nearly every white professional man in Arkansas who talks to me about politics these days expresses alarm that Hillary Clinton might become the Democratic presidential nominee and president.
Arkansas Times |
John Brummett |
03-13-2008 |
Commentary
Anatomy of a Foreclosurenew
Besides the borrower, there are four entities involved in loan-making: lenders, brokers, investors and servicing companies.
In Short, Eliot Spitzer Was Stupidnew
The day after The Wire signed off on HBO, Eliot Spitzer -- the governor of New York, the sheriff of Wall Street, the man who brought down so many in his years as a prosecutor and attorney general -- had his career ended by the sort of basic mistakes that even the teenage drug dealers of David Simon's imagination knew how to avoid.
New York Press |
Edward-Isaac Dovere |
03-13-2008 |
Politics
Voices: What People Think Now
Inland Northwesterners discuss the five-year anniversary of the invasion of Iraq.
The Inlander |
Kevin Taylor |
03-12-2008 |
War
Tags: Iraq, war & peace
Understanding the Cost of the War
Five years after the March 19, 2003, invasion, soldiers like Joseph DeWolf try to make sense of the chaos.
The Inlander |
Kevin Taylor |
03-12-2008 |
War
Grace Notesnew
These must be the gentlest, most sensitive cops in the world.
Sacramento News & Review |
Jonathan Kiefer |
03-12-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Eran Kolirin, The Band's Visit
