AltWeeklies Wire
Bad Boysnew
One Springfield detective showed up intoxicated three times at crime scenes, and plodded through a victim's blood in his flip-flops; another falsified records to help an informant, according to a preliminary report by a state-police investigator.
Illinois Times |
Dusty Rhodes |
08-04-2006 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Queer Crusade's Bad Servenew
The West's cozy activists should stop imposing their tactics on the world's gays.
NOW Magazine |
Glenn Wheeler |
08-04-2006 |
LGBT
Tags: gay & lesbian issues
Pot Shotsnew
The DEA and county officials close medical marijuana dispensaries in San Diego, and say the raids are a "warning."
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Kelly Davis |
08-04-2006 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
War: It's So 20th Centurynew
Armed conflict is the refuge of the inept, and way beneath our collective wisdom.
NOW Magazine |
Michael Hollett |
08-04-2006 |
Commentary
Police Riotnew
The anti-Minutemen protestors that were beat up by police in Hollywood will appear in court as an internal affairs investigation continues.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Joe Piasecki |
08-04-2006 |
Immigration
The Fall Guynew

Former Philadelphia City Councilman Rick Mariano, convicted on federal corruption charges, will soon report to prison for a 6.5-year sentence -- he spent some of his remaining days taking to us.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Brian Hickey |
08-04-2006 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Sex, Politics and Textbooksnew
Openly gay California State Senator Sheila Kuehl has altered her controversial bill on schoolbooks and sexual orientation.
Sacramento News & Review |
Stephen James |
08-03-2006 |
LGBT
Tags: gay & lesbian issues
The New Nukesnew

As the planet heats up, some prominent environmentalists now agree with George W. Bush that nuclear energy may be our last best hope -- has panic set in?
Sacramento News & Review |
R. V. Scheide |
08-03-2006 |
Policy Issues
Tags: public policy issues
Avening Angelsnew
Two new movies underscore the temptation for chicks to kick in flicks.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
08-03-2006 |
Reviews
Still Draconiannew
A federal judge for the second time blocked a measure that bars offenders from living within 1,000 feet of a school bus stop, a restriction that would have forced most of the state's more than 10,600 registered sex offenders from their homes.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Scott Henry |
08-03-2006 |
Civil Liberties
Tags: civil liberties
A Kitten is Worth a Thousand Birdsnew
If the massacre truly unnerves you, perhaps you should try a louder bell?
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Tray Butler |
08-03-2006 |
Advice
Tags: advice columns, Karma Cleanser
Mojo Risingnew
Heavy Mojo smashes through genres and generates so many different kinds of musical energy that you're not sure what to call it.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Mosi Reeves |
08-03-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Blow Out the Sound, Heavy Mojo
Fear and Loathing on Craigslistnew
If you ask me, gay men are men -- undisguised men, pure and simple, with little to divide them from hetero guys except their preference of orifice and the lack of hoops they have to jump through to attain it.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Hollis Gillespie |
08-03-2006 |
Comedy
Tags: humor & satire, moodswing
Reissue, Repackagenew
Ease into a bath of pleasantly lukewarm AOR water and revel in all that was so horribly right about mainstream rock in the late 70s and early 80s.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
08-03-2006 |
Reviews
Fuhrer Ballsnew
Equating feline and Nazi traits is nothing new, but every once in a while, an accident of birth produces a cat that bears an even more disturbing (and, concurrently, hilarious) physical resemblance to history's greatest monster.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
08-03-2006 |
Tech
Tags: computers & technology