AltWeeklies Wire
The New New Agenew
Here's both the good news and the bad: the 60s never ended.
Boston Phoenix |
James Parker |
08-21-2006 |
Culture
Tags: lifestyles
Pardons Are Forevernew
Prediction: Before leaving office, Bush will issue a shockingly large number of presidential pardons to operatives who ventured far outside the law to wage the "war on terror."
Boston Phoenix |
Harvey Silverglate |
08-21-2006 |
Politics
Ahmadinejad-Manianew
That's right, kids -- Iran's smilin', Holocaust-denyin', nuclear-power-wantin', windbreaker-wearin' president joined the new media this week, over at ahmadinejad.ir.
Boston Phoenix |
Adam Reilly and Bill Jensen |
08-21-2006 |
Comedy
Tags: humor & satire
A Music Box of His Ownnew
Organist Mark Noller spent $50,000 converting his garage into a replica of his weekend workplace.
Chicago Reader |
Andrew Schroedter |
08-21-2006 |
Culture
Tags: lifestyles
The Future of Public Housing?new
Gentrification and the revamping of public housing are certainly related, and they form the crux of a civic story that's been playing out nationally for a while now -- Louisville has gotten a taste with Park DuValle and the new Liberty Green.
LEO Weekly |
Stephen George |
08-21-2006 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
His God Doesn't Hate Fagsnew
Andrew Marin wants to build a bridge between his fundamentalist Christian peers and his friends in the gay community -- oddly enough, some of them want to cross it.
Chicago Reader |
Kate Hawley |
08-21-2006 |
Religion
Tags: religion
Dead Flowersnew
Chalk it up to karmic coincidence that the deaths of Syd Barrett and Arthur Lee -- two of 60s psychedelia's most beloved and drug-damaged souls -- should bookend the recent publication of Robert Greenfield's Timothy Leary: A Biography.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Jonathan Valania |
08-21-2006 |
Music
A House Race Dividednew
With Dems like these, who needs Republicans?
Birmingham Weekly |
Kyle Whitmire |
08-21-2006 |
Commentary
Tags: 2006elect
A Partisan Shotnew
Last week's Connecticut primary election was about the core values of the Democratic Party.
New Haven Advocate |
Josh Mamis |
08-21-2006 |
Commentary
Tags: 2006elect
A Grand Ol’ Dilemmanew
Alan Schlesinger, the Republican Senate candidate, is now facing the media-spotlit indignity of his own party leaders offering words of encouragement to Lieberman.
New Haven Advocate |
Tom Gogola |
08-21-2006 |
Politics
Tags: 2006elect
Soul Revivalnew
With a little help from Chicago, Birmingham's homegrown soul is back.
Birmingham Weekly |
Phillip Jordan |
08-21-2006 |
Music
Book TVnew
Lost and Found hunts for the humanity within a trashy reality race.
Montreal Mirror |
Juliet Waters |
08-21-2006 |
Fiction
Tags: Carolyn Parkhurst, Lost and Found
The Forgotten Warnew
We touch down in Afghanistan, a land of warlords, dope and a resurgent Taliban.
New Haven Advocate |
Daniel Smith |
08-21-2006 |
International
Tags: international
The Call-Center Classnew
Mallal and Addelman tap in to India's booming IT outsourcing scene and the ways in which it is (and isn't) affecting a new generation.
Montreal Mirror |
Mark Slutsky |
08-21-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Scope it Out, Joenew
Lieberman should look to William Jennings Bryan as an instructive case study in overweening morality.
New Haven Advocate |
Robert Solomon |
08-21-2006 |
Politics
Tags: 2006elect
