AltWeeklies Wire
Has the Nation's Former Meth Capital Really Turned a Corner?new
For the last dozen years, a concerted effort to suppress methamphetamine use in San Diego County has, at times, been like a Whac-a-Mole game — just as one problem’s solved, another pops up. But a report card released last week by the county’s Methamphetamine Strike Force touts success.
San Diego CityBeat |
Kelly Davis |
03-04-2009 |
Drugs
We Want a Single-Payer Healthcare System, But Obama's Baby Steps Are a Good Startnew
What we know about healthcare is that the system we have doesn’t work, that costs are rising far faster than incomes, that it makes no sense to burden private business with having to provide care for the workforce and that a for-profit insurance model encourages the denial of treatment.
San Diego CityBeat |
San Diego CityBeat |
03-04-2009 |
Commentary
Tags: Healthcare, commentary
El Moz: The Mexican Morrisseynew
Thanks to his ability to soothe an immigrant’s heart without even trying, in the world of rock no one is more Mexican than Morrissey.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
03-04-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Exhaustive Book Tells Us How a Group of TV Innovators Got to 'Sesame Street'new
Michael Davis' Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street is broad in scope yet exercises a meticulous attention to detail. This meticulousness turns out to be essential because of the number of story threads that are un-teased to paint Davis’ picture.
San Antonio Current |
Molly O'Donnell |
03-04-2009 |
Nonfiction
Cygnet Lake: Dancing with Young Starsnew
Dear young dancers of the Ballet Conservatory of South Texas:
Hello, girls! Thank you for inviting us, the audience at your performance Poetry in Motion, to glimpse your development as dancers and artists.
San Antonio Current |
Courtenay Martin |
03-04-2009 |
Performance
So Close to the Alamo, So Far from Godnew
Them vaunted Tennessee volunteers of our high-school Alamobotomies are Rachel Jennings' kin. And as kinfolk go, she knows that each time they "hem and haw" about their heroism, they're just covering up shit.
San Antonio Current |
B.V. Olguin |
03-04-2009 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
San Antionio Airport Police Whistleblower Gets Fired and Takes His Case to the Citynew
The decision by Chief Ron Bruner to terminate Corporal Russell Martin exposed some emotional wounds that have been mounting within San Antonio’s Airport Police Department.
San Antonio Current |
Gilbert Garcia |
03-04-2009 |
Business & Labor
'Watchmen' Star Jackie Earle Haley on Rorschach, Living in San Antonio, and Being a Badassnew
While Watchmen director Zack Snyder’s credentials or Matthew Goode’s accent as ubermensch ex-hero Ozymandias provoked staggering amounts of internet bitching, the casting of Jackie Earle Haley generated nothing but fanboy praise, adulation, and high hopes for the adaptation that many decried as impossible.
San Antonio Current |
Chuck Kerr |
03-04-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
How Top Dailies Are Killing Cartooning
This is the golden age of editorial cartooning — but you'd never know it to read the daily newspaper.
Zack Snyder Delivers Exactly the 'Watchmen' We've Already Seen
You probably don't want a visionary director when it comes to pleasing devotees of a work that they already consider visionary. What you want, really, is a competent hack.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
03-03-2009 |
Reviews
The Seasoned Men of Horse Are Making the Best Music of Their Lifenew
U.S. Metal takes a time-tested, bare-knuckled approach to the type of metal that's built on driving riffs and double kicks, resulting in a taut, classic, thrash sound that nods to vintage Pantera.
Westword |
Dave Herrera |
03-02-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
When Animal Activists Attacknew
Bit on the set of a Rick Ross video, animal handler Mark McCarthy now squares off against activists.
Miami New Times |
Amy Guthrie |
03-02-2009 |
Animal Issues
Canseco Creams A-Rodnew
Does Alex Rodriguez's latest admission vindicate a Miami trainer?
Miami New Times |
Gus Garcia-Roberts |
03-02-2009 |
Sports
Alberto Mora: Profile in Cojonesnew
The Bush backer stood up against Guantanamo abuses. Now he's an Obama man.
Miami New Times |
Gus Garcia-Roberts |
03-02-2009 |
War
Guantanamo's Final Daysnew
The day President Obama ordered the closure of the camps at Guantanamo Bay, writer Tim Elfrink was the only American reporter inside the detention camps. While there, he was able to get an inside view of the facilities that some of America's sworn enemies occupy.
Miami New Times |
Tim Elfrink and Jesse Hyde |
03-02-2009 |
War
Tags: Guantanamo, War on terror
