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The Beatles Get Squished in Film Based on Their Songsnew

Nostalgic for the days of revolution, director Julie Taymor hijacks The Beatles and reduces them to topical art.

New York Press | Armond White | 09-13-2007 | Reviews

Corporate Incentives: Down the Slippery Slopenew

North Carolina's delusional economic development policy headed for the rubber room recently, as the legislature and Gov. Mike Easley clashed, then compromised, over a bill to give Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. up to $40 million to keep its Fayetteville plant open and stay in the state.

INDY Week | Bob Burtman | 09-13-2007 | Economy

Tags: Economic Issues

A STAC of Transit Ideas in North Carolina's Trianglenew

A commuter rail line, plus electrified streetcar lines, plus rail line spurs would equal almost 240 miles of commuter rail (plus 56 miles of streetcars) at a rough cost of $6.1 billion to $8.2 billion.

INDY Week | Bob Geary | 09-13-2007 | Transportation

Tags: transportation

The Secret Lives of Teachersnew

Two teachers take on the reality of life in the classroom.

Santa Fe Reporter | Rob Wilder and Seth Biderman | 09-13-2007 | Education

Tags: Education

Iowa Democratic Primary Turning into a Four-Way Racenew

Bill Richardson has joined John Edwards, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama among the candidates hitting double-digits in the polls there, turning what's seen nationally as a three-way contest into an Iowa four-way.

INDY Week | Bob Geary | 09-13-2007 | Politics

Tags: 2008 presidential election, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, Democrats, Iowa, Bill Richardson, primaries

Oakland: A Haven for Arsonists?new

In five years, the city has logged 1,538 malicious property torchings but made just 51 arrests in those cases.

East Bay Express | Jeremy Singer-Vine | 09-13-2007 | Crime & Justice

Tags: crime & justice

PrinceRodriguez is Best When The Band's Having Funnew

Songs of the Sod seems to be a work of passion that would be even better with more restraint in the studio.

Fort Worth Weekly | Tom Geddie | 09-13-2007 | Reviews

Tags: PrinceRodriguez, Songs from the Sod

Maren Morris' Tiny Countrynew

The genre-blending singer-songwriter readies for the release of her sophomore album, All That It Takes.

Fort Worth Weekly | Jimmy Fowler | 09-13-2007 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: All That It Takes, Maren Morris

Law Enforcement Abuses Give a Texas County a Black Eyenew

Johnson County suffers, on average, only one or two murders and maybe 50 robberies a year -- and yet, in just two months, inmates reported to Fort Worth Weekly at least half a dozen instances of abuse and serious neglect by jailers, in some cases life-threatening, and out-of-line conduct by various patrol officers.

Fort Worth Weekly | Peter Gorman | 09-13-2007 | Crime & Justice

Tags: crime & justice