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Mother's Little Helpernew
The right juice for Mom's big day.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Taylor Eason |
05-10-2007 |
Food+Drink
Tags: Corkscrew
Stand by Your Man?new
The mayor and City Council passed a plan to scrutinize Chief Pennington and the police department -- now get on with the job!
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
John Sugg |
05-10-2007 |
Commentary
Tags: Metropolis
Revenge on Icenew
Celebrated spy novelist Charles McCarry offers a sad tale from the Deutsches Reich with love.
Boston Phoenix |
Clif Garboden |
05-10-2007 |
Fiction
'Road' Rulesnew
An interview with Red Road director Andrea Arnold.
Boston Phoenix |
Gerald Peary |
05-10-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Andrea Arnold, Red Road
The Eyes Have Itnew
We've come a long way from Kieslowski's Red, in which a retired judge falls into disgrace for listening in on his neighbors -- now, spying on citizens is a virtue, no more so than in Britain, where it's estimated that the average person appears on camera some 300 times a day.
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Keough |
05-10-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Andrea Arnold, Red Road
New Orleans Notesnew
This year as last, the refrain at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival was: "We're back." But the question still nagged: "How far 'back' are we?"
Boston Phoenix |
Jon Garelick |
05-10-2007 |
Concerts
Tags: concerts
Evolution Rocknew
Jeff Tweedy takes Wilco to the next level.
Boston Phoenix |
Ted Drozdowski |
05-10-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Wilco, Sky Blue Sky
Home of the Bravesnew
Fifty years ago this fall, a Boston team beat the Yankees in the World Series; 57 years ago, a Boston team became one of the first in the major leagues to integrate -- that team, obviously, was not the Red Sox.
Boston Phoenix |
Mike Miliard |
05-10-2007 |
Sports
Tags: sports & fitness
The Price of Murdernew
In 2005, in one of the most concentrated bursts of deadly violence Boston had seen in years, nine victims were killed in 20 days -- we revisit nine murder cases we reported on two years ago.
Boston Phoenix |
David S. Bernstein |
05-10-2007 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Not Surprised You Speak Our Languagenew
On the one hand, it's dos svidania, on the other sallam -- globalization and jihad have language studies in an upheaval.
Boston Phoenix |
Sara Faith Alterman |
05-10-2007 |
Education
Tags: Education
Dems Gun Shy?new
The renewed debate about gun control highlights a new paradigm: The Democrats, it turns out, are packing heat.
Style Weekly |
Amy Biegelsen |
05-10-2007 |
Politics
Real Judicial Activismnew
If ever there was a time, it's now; if ever there were a place it is Guantanamo Bay, where detainees have been held indefinitely without clearly defined procedures for determining their guilt or innocence of charges that are shadowy and ill-defined -- a situation that makes a joke of the rule of law.
Boston Phoenix |
Harvey Silverglate |
05-10-2007 |
Civil Liberties
Tags: civil liberties
Mitt Romney's Kind of Womennew
In raising more than $20 million over the first three months of this year, Romney showed a special touch with the ladies -- the ones who keep house, anyway.
Boston Phoenix |
David S. Bernstein |
05-10-2007 |
Politics
The Myth of the Universal Librarynew
A lot of web geeks believe that one day everything ever created by humans will be available online -- without further ado, I present to you three arguments for the elimination of the myth of the universal library.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Annalee Newitz |
05-10-2007 |
Tech
Tags: computers & technology
Portland is Paying Millions to Get Out of the Porn Businessnew
The Portland Development Commission will demolish a porn palace to upgrade downtown's low-income housing stock, provide shelter for the chronically homeless and sanitize the increasingly swanky "Cultural District" -- but is it a good deal for taxpayers?
Willamette Week |
Nigel Jaquiss |
05-10-2007 |
Policy Issues
Tags: public policy issues
