AltWeeklies Wire
Stories From Papers You Don't Bring Home to Mothernew
In Notes from the Underground, you'll find stories of train-hopping hobos; high-priced, semi-retired call girls; marijuana; pedophilia; and polygamy. Yup, making our J-school mentors proud.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Bell |
09-15-2005 |
Nonfiction
Mayor Launches Her Campaign With a Vow to Fight Voter Purgenew
Shirley Franklin, the only well-known Georgian running for office this year, has a bully pulpit. She alone can draw attention to the travesty of Georgia's voter purge.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Doug Monroe |
09-15-2005 |
Politics
Rush to Fall
The season’s new TV shows, rated with the Geddy, Alex & Neil (of Rush) system.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Bill Frost |
09-14-2005 |
TV
FOUND Founder Tells Tall Talesnew
FOUND magazine founder Davy Rothbart talks about smoking meth with Arthur Miller and his new book, The Lone Surfer of Montana, Kansas.
Dig Boston |
Paul McMorrow |
09-14-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Supergroup Lives Up to Its Prefixnew
When word got out that Themselves, the central unit of the experimental hip-hop collective Anticon, were grouping with the glitch-pop magnates of Notwist, fans wanted to know what a band like this could possibly sound like.
Dig Boston |
Michael Brodeur |
09-14-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: 13 & God
Is Practice Making Them Less Weird? Weird.new
As always with Deerhoof, the question with every new album is: How will they pull this off live? The answer remains generally the same: They won’t bother.
Dig Boston |
Matt Parish |
09-14-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Deerhoof
The Big Uneasynew
New Orleans is revealed in fact and film.
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Keough |
09-14-2005 |
Disasters
The Day the Music Died
New Orleans-born musicians now in Santa Fe contemplate life after The Big Easy.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Nathan Dinsdale |
09-14-2005 |
Disasters
Waiting for Help in the Shadow of the Superdomenew
On a bridge that stands above floodwater near the Superdome, sick and hungry people waited endlessly for buses to take them from New Orleans.
Association of Alternative Newsmedia |
Burk Foster |
09-14-2005 |
Disasters
Politics and Perseverance After Katrinanew
As the politicians keep spinning and their incomprehensible mistakes come to light, there’s comfort in the heroic and nurturing efforts of Louisiana’s citizens, friends and family.
Association of Alternative Newsmedia |
Scott Jordan |
09-14-2005 |
Commentary
Inside the Dome
A physician gives a first-hand report on treating evacuees in the Astrodome.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Daniel Kovnat |
09-14-2005 |
Disasters
Things Fall Apart
In New Orleans, a convoy of emergency responders find a Motel Six with its side ripped off, a tattered mattress on top of a car, starving dogs and a lone man who doesn't want to leave his home and go out into all that filth.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Dan Frosch |
09-14-2005 |
Disasters
Residents in New Orleans' Outlying Parishes Feel Alonenew
Residents of Plaquemines, St. Bernard, Jefferson and other parishes say they were overlooked in the aid effort, and the suffering has left sheriff's deputies heartbroken.
Association of Alternative Newsmedia |
Jeremy Alford |
09-14-2005 |
Disasters
Get 'Em While They're Young
A children's author provides a primer in the politics of fear for tomorrow's Republicans.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
09-14-2005 |
Fiction
Baker On Baker
Cartoonist Kyle Baker throws himself into his work like never before, and then gets serious with a new Nat Turner biography.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
09-14-2005 |
Original Work
