AltWeeklies Wire
Paying for Renewalnew
Subsidies for the 49ers are among the many concerns being raised about a major redevelopment plan in San Francisco.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
G.W. Schulz |
05-17-2006 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
The Politics of the Game Industrynew
Video games have been closely tethered to corporate America and the military-industrial complex ever since they were first introduced at Brookhaven National Laboratory.
San Antonio Current |
Aaron Delwiche |
05-17-2006 |
Video Games
Tags: convention, E3
Anything But Smooth Sailingnew
Schama drowns the American Revolution.
Willamette Week |
Matt Buckingham |
05-17-2006 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Rough Crossings, Simon Schama
The Many Faces of Fact and Fictionnew
One progenitor of New Journalism tells it like it is -- or should be.
Willamette Week |
Karla Starr |
05-17-2006 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: A Writer's Life, Gay Talese
Starving Artnew
Everclear's Art Alexakis is trying to lower his payments to his ex-wives.
Willamette Week |
Ian Demsky |
05-17-2006 |
Music
Jailhouse Crocknew

Bruce Samuelson may have been a thief, a forger, an abusive husband and a snitch -- but did he wrongly send a California man to his death?
Willamette Week |
Ian Demsky |
05-17-2006 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Natural-Law Schoolnew

Seventy-five years after its creation, Concept Therapy remains a little-understood road map to higher consciousness.
San Antonio Current |
Gilbert Garcia |
05-17-2006 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
Feast or Faminenew
Hunger and overeating coexist in San Antonio.
San Antonio Current |
Aaron Block |
05-17-2006 |
Food+Drink
Girls Afraidnew
Just My Luck and Somersault map wildly different paths to maturity.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Cheryl Eddy |
05-17-2006 |
Reviews
Skeletal Keynew

Jose Ruben De Leon pays tribute to Agustin Lara with a spare, haunting new collection.
San Antonio Current |
Gilbert Garcia |
05-17-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Jose Ruben De Leon
The Passion of Dan Brownnew

The Da Vinci Code: crap or fiction?
San Antonio Current |
Cole Haddon |
05-17-2006 |
Books
Crafts Bizarrenew
Etsy's eBay-style craft community makes everyone a potential artisan.
The Village Voice |
Julian Dibbell |
05-17-2006 |
Tech
Tags: computers & technology
From Russia With Love Handlesnew
Shteyngart's follow-up to The Russian Debutante's Handbook is less than appetizing.
The Village Voice |
Carla Blumenkranz |
05-17-2006 |
Fiction
Tags: Absurdistan, Gary Shteyngart
Harried ... With Childrennew
Suburban kids and parents fail to act their age in Cuesta's second feature.
The Village Voice |
Dennis Lim |
05-17-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Michael Cuesta, Twelve and Holding
Domestic Violencenew
Guess who's coming to dinner? Your boss's unstable wife and a host of hauntings.
The Village Voice |
Michael Atkinson |
05-17-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Dominik Moll, Lemming