AltWeeklies Wire
Frotestersnew
Miami-Dade Corrections officers think a new uniform code discriminates against black men.
Miami New Times |
Emily Witt |
04-09-2007 |
Race & Class
Tags: race relations
Milkamania: She's Fast, Smart, and Headed for Indynew
Milka Duno is a shockingly beautiful and extremely ambitious racer -- and she just announced that she would leave sports car racing to work toward the Indy 500.
Miami New Times |
Isaiah Thompson |
04-09-2007 |
Sports
Tags: sports & fitness
CU Makes Nice and Keeps Allegations Quietnew
Robert Schrier took the University of Colorado to court for academic freedom -- the school settled before a jury could hear the tale.
Tags: Education
'The Microsoft of Kickball' Has Arrivednew
The World Adult Kickball Association is armed with a stack of copyrighted rules and a litigious reputation.
Seattle Weekly |
Huan Hsu |
04-09-2007 |
Sports
Tags: sports & fitness
How to Answer Unrequited Love: With Song!new
Heartache still produces some of the finest art.
Westword |
Dave Herrera |
04-09-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Ian Cooke
This Country Icon Never Left, but He's Coming Back Anywaynew
Although he's only months from his eightieth birthday, Charlie Louvin is hipper than ever.
Westword |
Michael Roberts |
04-09-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Charlie Louvin
A Few Gone Mennew
Marine Corporal Lance Hering didn't want to go back to Iraq -- so he decided to disappear.
Tags: war in iraq, AWOL
Swift's Beef Plant: An Equal-opportunity Exploiternew
Lawsuits say the meatpacking company wrongly terminated injured workers to save on worker's compensation costs and systematically replaced workers with illegal Guatemalan immigrants to depress wages.
Dallas Observer |
Megan Feldman |
04-09-2007 |
Business & Labor
Tags: industry, meatpacking
In the Majority: More Americans Oppose the Warnew
The peace movement includes more members in unlikely places.
Shepherd Express |
Lisa Kaiser |
04-09-2007 |
War
Getting Robert Rodriguez's Blood-Stained Seal of Approvalnew
Only a few short weeks ago, Jason Eisener was a film school dropout -- now he's basking in the afterglow of collecting first prize in Rodriguez's filmmaking contest and is considering the option of turning his trailer into a feature film with studio backing.
The Coast, Halifax's Weekly |
Julian Dickinson |
04-09-2007 |
Movies
Tags: Hobo With a Shotgun, Jason Eisener
Neighborhoods Hit Hard By Bad Loans & Foreclosuresnew
The drop in the housing market and subsequent failure of subprime mortgage lenders has caused a near panic on Wall Street -- but it is at streets like 20th and Burleigh in Milwaukee where the changes have hit the hardest.
Shepherd Express |
Dennis Shook |
04-09-2007 |
Economy
Tags: Economic Issues
Two Takes on the Truthnew
Lasse Hallstrom's The Hoax, a hoax about a hoax, and Linda Hattendorf's The Cats of Mirikitani, a work of art about an artist.
Chicago Reader |
Jonathan Rosenbaum |
04-09-2007 |
Reviews
Hello, Indiana!new
Chicago Public Radio's experimental station is set for a (very) soft launch in May.
Chicago Reader |
Deanna Isaacs |
04-09-2007 |
Media
Tags: radio
Masterminds at Worknew
Timbaland (Timbaland Presents Shock Value) and El-P (I'll Sleep When You're Dead) helm their own records.
Chicago Reader |
Miles Raymer |
04-09-2007 |
Reviews
Fighting Against the Defunding of Equalitynew
Prime minister Stephen Harper's government announced it was cutting five million dollars from the Status of Women budget last fall; as Halifax's office closed, protesters were out in full force.
The Coast, Halifax's Weekly |
Jodie Barnaby |
04-09-2007 |
The War on Women
Tags: women's issues
