AltWeeklies Wire
How Federal Home Loan Banks Exacerbated the Banking Meltdownnew
There are plenty of bad guys in the current banking collapse, but I want to introduce you to some unsung villains: the executives running little-known, federally chartered bankers' cooperatives called Federal Home Loan Banks.
Tags: finance, Federal Home Loan Banks
Faux-Star Reviews!new
A negative review on Yelp is bad for business. That's why some merchants feel they must keep Yelpers happy at any cost.
SF Weekly |
Lauren Smiley |
03-13-2009 |
Business & Labor
Reboot America: A Lesson from Post-Consumerist Cubanew
It sucks that it took a depression to get us here, but historians might just look back on this depression as the event that saved the ecosystem just when we were on the brink of flopping over a climatic tipping point.
Artvoice |
Michael I. Niman |
03-13-2009 |
Commentary
Why Do We Bail Out Wall Street Bankers?new
Ben Bernanke's Federal Reserve and Timothy Geithner's Treasury Department continue to sink billions of dollars into the black hole of Wall Street, but those billions have not prevented the US economy’s nosedive toward a crash and burn ending. And what is Bernanke's solution? More of the same.
Tags: finance, economic issues
Will Protesters Block the Fast-Track to the Future?new
Some Silicon Valley residents are nervous about plans for the future of rail transportation.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Diane Solomon |
03-13-2009 |
Transportation
Rethinking Canada's Founding Fathernew
For many reasons, historians have been coming together recently in an effort to give Samuel de Champlain a greater place in world history.
Montreal Mirror |
Juliet Waters |
03-13-2009 |
Nonfiction
Montreal's Edgy Women Festival Breaks Down Barriers and Wants You to Do the Samenew
Living on the edge of arts, disciplines and gender politics for six nights only is the Edgy Women Festival, Studio 303’s annual celebration of boundary pushing artists.
Montreal Mirror |
Lina Harper |
03-13-2009 |
Performance
Bruce McDonald on His Small-Town Ontario Zombie Filmnew
Here's the bit of brilliance that lies at the gut of McDonald's latest movie: Pontypool is truly horrifying for what it doesn't show us.
Montreal Mirror |
Matthew Hays |
03-13-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
The 'It' Factor of the Wong Boysnew
Hailing from the land of Lego and blue cheese, the Wong Boys are a pair of Danish music-scene vets who "talk punk and walk rave," as they put it, which essentially means they bang out obtuse, ass-kick electro-pop that's rank, dank, raunchy and stupid in an exceptionally clever manner.
Montreal Mirror |
Rupert Bottenberg |
03-13-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: electronic music, The Wong Boys
Dave Gossage and the Annual Saint Patrick's Mindwarpnew
Known to local Celtic music buffs as Montreal's most prominent pied piper, and to a recent influx of young Irish pub-goers as "flute guy," Hurley's and Old Dublin mainstay Dave Gossage is one of Montreal's go-to musical performers when it comes to traditional Irish and Scottish reels and jigs.
Montreal Mirror |
Erik Leijon |
03-13-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Neko Case's 'Middle Cyclone'new
On Middle Cyclone, Neko Case is a more assured songwriter, having buried the struggle with her slightly skewed romantic tendencies, even if the word "love" happens to crop up occasionally.
Tucson Weekly |
Eric Swedlund |
03-12-2009 |
Reviews
U2's 'No Line on the Horizon'new
No Line on the Horizon follows big, time-tested U2 themes--The Edge's crystalline guitars against Bono's lyrics of love and hope.
Tucson Weekly |
Annie Holub |
03-12-2009 |
Reviews
Serrated Lyrical Edge: Elvis Perkins in Dearlandnew
With Dearland, Elvis Perkins leaves behind any resemblance to the quirky indie-folk acts he was sometimes compared to, broadening his vocal range and attack.
Tucson Weekly |
Jarret Keene |
03-12-2009 |
Reviews
Larkin Grimm Uses Music to Express Her Different Way of Seeing the Worldnew
Larkin Grimm is an amazingly talented singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist whose raw, dynamic and sometimes hallucinatory songs effectively communicate a perspective unlike anyone else's.
Tucson Weekly |
Gene Armstrong |
03-12-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Husband-and-Wife Duo Discover that Working from Home Can Greatly Increase Productivitynew
Having their own studio separate from their house, but still at home, allowed Viva Voce to live their lives without dealing with the gigantic wad of cables.
Tucson Weekly |
Annie Holub |
03-12-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
