AltWeeklies Wire
Up, Up and Awaynew
Austin Grossman's debut novel gets inside the heads of some pretty powerful people.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Kirsten Akens |
06-21-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Small-town Papers Duke it Outnew
Point Reyes, Calif., is perhaps the smallest two-paper town in America.
North Bay Bohemian |
Peter Byrne |
06-21-2007 |
Media
Tags: media
Making the Case for Health Carenew
Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden insists he's trying to make America a better place -- before the 2008 election.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Ralph Routon |
06-21-2007 |
Politics
Tags: health care, Wyden
The Queers Who Came in from the Coldnew
Over the past generation, being gay seems to have lost much of the social radioactivity that exacted terrible human costs, but also generated excitement and gave writers a subject to write about.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Paul Reidinger |
06-21-2007 |
Books
No Kidding!new
A look at the ecstasy and agony of living childfree.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Naomi Zeveloff |
06-21-2007 |
Culture
A 'Mighty' Messnew
Instead of emotion, Jolie and Pitt go for propaganda.
New York Press |
Armond White |
06-21-2007 |
Reviews
Kate Schatz Goes Into the Woodsnew
Continuum's 33 1/3 series enters PJ Harvey terrain with the fictional Rid of Me.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Amanda Davidson |
06-21-2007 |
Fiction
In Gurba's Gardennew
Dahlia Season tells true-to-life tales of bathroom cruisers, trans gangsters, and freak-magnet teenage baby dyke death rockers in her debut short-story collection
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Michelle Tea |
06-21-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Dahlia Season, Myriam Gurba
'Colma': Cemetery Gatesnew
The hills are dead, but the music is alive in Wong's film.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Dennis Harvey |
06-21-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Colma: The Musical, Richard Wong
'Stephanie Daley': Transformation and Tragedynew
Moments in Hilary Brougher's first feature are obvious, but little is heavy-handed or overwrought.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Lynn Rapoport |
06-21-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Hilary Brougher, Stephanie Daley
Replicator: Revenge of the Nerdsnew
The Oakland band makes "music for very pissed-off smart people."
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Duncan Scott Davidson |
06-21-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Replicator
Hollywood Takes Aim at Online Privacynew
The entertainment industry has finally figured out a way to screw everybody in the United States -- not just the geeks using peer-to-peer software.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Annalee Newitz |
06-21-2007 |
Tech
Screen Shotsnew
While MTV withers, Portland's music-video directors are making the genre sing again.
Willamette Week |
Michael Byrne |
06-21-2007 |
Music
Matt McCormick Gets Appropriately Atmosphericnew
The poetic visual beauty of the industrial and urban landscapes that the Portland filmmaker captures on film are as unlikely as the soundscapes he composes/documents on Very Stereo.
Willamette Week |
Michael Byrne |
06-21-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Matt McCormick, Very Stereo
Alt-Weeklies at 30, Devoted to Journalismnew
Progressive Portland, Ore., hosts healthy, and growing, alternatives.
Illinois Times |
Fletcher Farrar |
06-21-2007 |
Media
Tags: media
