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Guitarmy Reserve: A New Folk Music Collectivenew
The city is poised to reclaim its past folk music glory with Acoustic Philly.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Jeffrey Barg |
02-26-2007 |
Music
Tags: Acoustic Philly
Pressed for Excess: Philadelphia's Newspaper Battlenew
Inside the impact of the ownership change at The Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Steve Volk |
02-26-2007 |
Media
Tags: media
Coming Attractions: Philadelphia In The Coming Yearnew
Philly could be on the brink of greatness -- if it invests in what’s next.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Staff |
02-26-2007 |
Policy Issues
Tags: public policy issues
Mike Relm's Cinematic Mash-Upsnew
A couple of years ago, this West Coast turntablist made it fairly easy to have some people into your living room and turn a low-key social outing into a depraved, beer-ridden music trivia match with Radio Fryer.
Orlando Weekly |
Dominic Umile |
02-26-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Mike Relm
Presidential Primary Leapfrognew
If all the states crowd their primaries on Feb. 5, then we could know the nominees by Ash Wednesday -- or the candidates could fight to a draw, leaving a flyover state to pick the winners a week or two later.
Birmingham Weekly |
Kyle Whitmire |
02-26-2007 |
Commentary
Fishing Makes Waves as Serious Sportnew
With hoops cresting, NASCAR revving and football, always football, percolating in a fan's mind, one might dismiss the Bassmaster Classic fishing tournament as trash sport -- one would then be a doofus.
Birmingham Weekly |
Courtney Haden |
02-26-2007 |
Sports
Tags: sports & fitness
Margaret Cho Bears Her Soulnew
I needed to find the perfect questions that would give us a peek inside the mind of an American original -- and I sort of failed.
Birmingham Weekly |
J'Mel Davison |
02-26-2007 |
Performance
Tags: performance
The Virtual Battlegroundnew
The U.S. Army's Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumentation, the biggest organization you've never heard of, helps train soldiers to stay alive.
Orlando Weekly |
Billy Manes |
02-26-2007 |
War
'A Crossroads in Transportation Policy'new
Even with an increase in gasoline taxes, it's unlikely that toll roads, and perhaps even the loathed Trans-Texas Corridor, will vanish from the map.
The Texas Observer |
Eileen Welsome |
02-26-2007 |
Transportation
Tags: transportation
Two New Supreme Court Justices Control the Fate of Condemnednew
Both sides in the death penalty debate are looking to the court's eventual rulings in Smith v. Texas, Abdul-Kabir v. Quarterman and Panetti v. Quarterman for signs, clues, or outright proof that the tide has turned.
The Texas Observer |
Anthony Zurcher |
02-26-2007 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Henry Diltz's Flashbacksnew
The accidental photographer talks about catching the full bloom of flower power and his new exhibit at the Southeast Museum of Photography.
Orlando Weekly |
Susan Loden |
02-26-2007 |
Art
Tags: visual arts
Texas Youth Commission Hides Abuse Scandalnew
How did alleged abuse at a youth facility in West Texas evade detection for so long?
The Texas Observer |
Nate Blakeslee |
02-26-2007 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Box Set Celebrate's Elektra's Art Over Commercenew
Forever Changing speaks to the power of Jac Holzman's ideal.
Behind the Labelnew
As the fair-trade movement evolves, farmers, activists and others fear that the meaning of the term will become corrupted.
Boulder Weekly |
Grace Hood |
02-26-2007 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
Four Comedians Walk Into a War ...new
Ray Hanania slayed them in Israel -- but his friends are costing him gigs back here in the States.
Chicago Reader |
Michael Miner |
02-26-2007 |
Performance
Tags: performance
