AltWeeklies Wire
Success for Naughtnew
Shackleton mania continues -- this time from the opposite side of Antarctica.
Seattle Weekly |
Robert Speer |
04-26-2006 |
Nonfiction
A Real Life-Saver?new
Doughnuts and sinkholes make for an unconvincing L.A. transcendence.
Seattle Weekly |
Angie Kritenbrink |
04-26-2006 |
Fiction
Jottings and Wanderingsnew
Looking for a unifying new story he never finds, Gay Talese reveals bits of himself, and his writing process, in the margins.
Seattle Weekly |
Tim Appelo |
04-26-2006 |
Nonfiction
Tags: A Writer's Life, Gay Talese
Guilt and Pleasurenew
Rock criticism's power couple get their talk on at Experience Music Project's Pop Music Studies Conference.
Seattle Weekly |
Rickey Wright |
04-26-2006 |
Music
Learning Why We're Americansnew
Schools fail the future when they don't teach the individual liberties in the Constitution.
The Village Voice |
Nat Hentoff |
04-26-2006 |
Education
Tags: Education
Bloody Tuesdaynew
You don't want to see it, but this important and powerful 9/11 movie demands to be seen, even if no catharsis follows.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
04-26-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Paul Greengrass, united 93
Jane Jacobs, In Her Own Wordsnew
For the urban thinker, now dead at 89, the fight was not abstract.
The Village Voice |
Staff |
04-26-2006 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
Immigration Prison Purgatorynew
The government has jailed family-supporting, lifelong U.S. residents who seem as American as the next person -- but can't prove it.
Seattle Weekly |
Nina Shapiro |
04-26-2006 |
Immigration
Brit-Hopnew
Mike Skinner's shambling, off-beat delivery -- mistaken by first-time listeners as a defect -- is the perfect voice for his tales of sex, drugs and mortality.
Boston Phoenix |
Chris Nelson |
04-25-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Joe Wilson's Americanew
The former diplomat and husband of outed CIA agent Valerie Plame talks about ideological extremists and the politics of personal destruction.
Good Times Santa Cruz |
Bill Forman |
04-25-2006 |
Politics
Friendly Firenew
Much like President Hugo Chavez, Venezuelan Supreme Court Justice Fernando Vargas relishes the opportunity to do battle with the opposition.
Monterey County Weekly |
Raul Vasquez |
04-25-2006 |
International
Tags: international
Cry for Me, Havananew
Andy Garcia takes on Fidel, Che and the mob with cringe-inducing results.
L.A. Alternative |
Wayne Melton |
04-25-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Andy Garcia, The Lost City
Kicking the Jinxnew
The Pretty Vicious cross their middle fingers.
L.A. Alternative |
Evan George |
04-25-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Pretty Vicious
Climate Envy Exposednew
East Coast literary culture snobs take a stab at playa hatin' on L.A. in the New Yorker.
L.A. Alternative |
Evan George |
04-25-2006 |
Media
Tags: media
