AltWeeklies Wire
Pop Montreal Shows Locals Lovenew
The annual Pop Montreal festival is imminent, promising a tidal wave of cool and unusual acts from all across the map. The second half of the festival’s name isn’t being ignored, though, with loads of locals on board, some of whom have neat news to share on the label front.
Montreal Mirror |
Rupert Bottenberg |
10-01-2007 |
Music
Tags: Pop Montreal
The Pipettes Connect the Dotsnew
For a group that prides itself on attempting to recapture the ideal girl group sound of the 1960s, Brighton’s Pipettes have a very modern take on striving for pop perfection.
Montreal Mirror |
Erik Leijon |
10-01-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Pipettes, We Are the Pipettes
Patti Smith on Everythingnew
Protean punk poetess Smith offers
answers on late-'70s New York and
domesticity in Detroit, covering Kurt Cobain and the looming post-Bush clean-up job.
Montreal Mirror |
Chris Barry |
10-01-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Patti Smith, Twelve
George Saunders Talks Fiction, Vonnegut, & Johnny Tremainnew
Saunders is an anthropologist of American culture who issues his findings in terms of crazily inventive fiction.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Bill O'Driscoll |
10-01-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Pittsburgh Reaches Settlement with Antiwar Demonstratorsnew
The agreement will keep the 24-hour antiwar protesters within two marked sections of sidewalk along Forbes Avenue, and will keep city police officers from citing any more protesters for "obstructing passageways" while sitting or lying there during the rest of their nearly month-long fast and picket.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Marty Levine |
10-01-2007 |
War
Tags: war & peace
Post-Gazette Breaks Judicial Seal in Scaife Divorce Casenew
Despite his best efforts, some of the most sensitive documents filed in Pittsburgh Tribune-Review publisher Richard Mellon Scaife's divorce are now a matter of public record -- but Scaife is fighting to have those documents hidden again, with a legal petition that is itself sealed.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Charlie Deitch |
10-01-2007 |
Media
Tags: media
Why'd an All-Woman Variety Show Ban a Trans Magician?new
Jessi Seams expected everyone to embrace her identity as a transwoman, but she didn't expect this.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Melissa Meinzer |
10-01-2007 |
Sex
Breaking Down Halifax's Strong Beer Trendnew
Radical brewer Greg Nash knows a good beer when he makes one.
The Coast, Halifax's Weekly |
Craig Pinhey |
10-01-2007 |
Food+Drink
Nova Scotia's Film Industry Aims to Move Forwardnew
An increased tax credit gives Nova Scotia a leg up over the competition from other provinces such as Manitoba, as well as the American states.
The Coast, Halifax's Weekly |
Carsten Knox |
10-01-2007 |
Movies
The Senate Snow Job on Iraqnew
Senators hide behind MoveOn.org in an outrageous attempt to deflect the debate.
LEO Weekly |
Stephen George |
10-01-2007 |
Commentary
Feds Target Santa Barbara's Medical Marijuana Shopsnew
In recent days, more than a dozen local property owners have received word from the DEA that they could face the potential seizure of their property and assets if they continue to rent space to cannabis companies -- a threat that has dispensary operators and building owners alike waiting to exhale.
Santa Barbara Independent |
Staff |
10-01-2007 |
Drugs
Tags: Drugs
Why Doesn't Philly Just Hire 10,000 More Cops?new
Instead, the city's latest crime-fighting initiative asks for 10,000 men -- particularly black men -- to voluntarily patrol crime-ridden neighborhoods.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Kia Gregory |
10-01-2007 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
To Have, But Not To Holdnew
How the grisly murder and dismemberment of a young man led a well-off pilot to wed a woman serving life for the crime.
Nashville Scene |
Sarah Kelley |
10-01-2007 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Blue Whale Requiemnew
Mystery reigns as sonar tests pit military training against beloved Southland pods.
L.A. Weekly |
Judith Lewis |
10-01-2007 |
Animal Issues
Tags: animal issues
CleanScapes Hopes to Monitor Your Recyclingnew
The company's founder wants to bring the equivalent of the red-light camera to your front curb. Just as the traffic camera captures you running through a stoplight, CleanScapes' incriminating photos would catch you improperly disposing of a milk carton.
Seattle Weekly |
Nina Shapiro |
10-01-2007 |
Environment
Tags: environment
