AltWeeklies Wire
Citizen Claranew
Taxpayers should be concerned about the way one powerful Hispanic businesswoman is getting ahead in Multnomah County, Oregon.
Willamette Week |
Ian Demsky |
06-28-2006 |
Business & Labor
The Grapes Of Erathnew
Sale of an Oregon winery to a tobacco subsidiary gins up concerns about industry corporatization.
Willamette Week |
Jacques Von Lunen |
06-28-2006 |
Food+Drink
Deconstructing For FEMA Dollarsnew
New Orleans gets a lesson from Portland on greening its Katrina cleaning.
Willamette Week |
Ian Demsky |
06-28-2006 |
Environment
A Safe Choicenew
Considering the risky business that is fiction publishing today, it seems odd that printing a novella by an unknown author could be considered a safe move for a small, independent publisher.
Willamette Week |
Karla Starr |
06-28-2006 |
Fiction
Tags: Girls in Peril, Karen Lee Boren
Johnny Cash's Final Journeynew
Cash was an expert at finding and composing songs that got into the human spirit, and there are plenty on two new releases from the Cash archives: Personal File and American V: A Hundred Highways.
Boston Phoenix |
Ted Drozdowski |
06-28-2006 |
Reviews
Doom Merchantsnew
After 15 years, AFI suddenly finds itself at the summit of rock.
San Antonio Current |
Gilbert Garcia |
06-28-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Fair and Foulnew
PBS does Japanese baseball with Kokoyakyu: High School Baseball.
San Antonio Current |
Steven G. Kellman |
06-28-2006 |
TV
Tags: TV
Build a Fence, Dig a Holenew
Who's working harder to suppress the immigrant vote: Anti-Voting Rights Act Republicans or the Minutemen?
San Antonio Current |
Elaine Wolff |
06-28-2006 |
Commentary
Breaking Away from What’s Brokennew
This Mexican election wants to be your role model.
San Antonio Current |
Keli Dailey |
06-28-2006 |
Politics
Containment Policynew
For ailing residents of San Antonio's toxic triangle, answers are hard to come by.
San Antonio Current |
Gilbert Garcia |
06-28-2006 |
Science
Dirty Secretsnew
The government tried to put journalist John Powell in prison half a century ago for reporting that the US Army used germ warfare in Korea -- and he's still convinced it's true.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Robert Speer |
06-28-2006 |
International
Natty Crednew
Bob Marley's former PR person provides fly-on-the-wall account.
The Village Voice |
Elena Oumano |
06-28-2006 |
Nonfiction
Tags: The Book of Exodus, Vivien Goldman
Becq to the Futurenew
The prince of perversity's new novel is the Rael thing.
The Village Voice |
David Ng |
06-28-2006 |
Fiction
Myths Americannew
Bryan Singer resurrects the Man of Steel in Superman Returns, while Meryl Streep sinks her teeth into the fashion world in The Devil Wears Prada.
The Village Voice |
J. Hoberman |
06-28-2006 |
Reviews
Air to the Thronenew
At the 2006 air guitar nationals, the thrill is real, though the axes are not.
The Village Voice |
Rob Harvilla |
06-28-2006 |
Music
