AltWeeklies Wire
Use Essential Oils for Essential Healingnew
Healers and spiritual masters have been using essential oils for centuries. Now, you can, too.
Jackson Free Press |
Julie Chaffin |
02-13-2009 |
Culture
Protect Workers' Rights -- Enact the Employee Free Choice Actnew
It's time to level the economic playing field by encouraging workers to organize and enacting the Employee Free Choice Act.
Jackson Free Press |
Bill Chandler |
02-13-2009 |
Commentary
Unemployed Winonew
Pour a drop of wine for the unemployed, victims of corporate scams and those smiling individuals who are financially terrorized.
Jackson Free Press |
Ken Stiggers |
02-13-2009 |
Comedy
Tags: humor & satire, economic issues
Karl Rove Sleight of Handnew
In a recent speech, the architect of two Bush election victories uses fear and misdirection to duck responsibility for the mess we're in.
Pasadena Weekly |
Joe Piasecki |
02-13-2009 |
Politics
Charter Schools Long to Find a Home in Dormant St. Louis Classroomsnew
St. Louis charter-school advocates say that a so-called deed restriction — which also bars medical clinics, adult entertainment venues and taverns from taking over city school properties — far exceeds efforts by other cities to block charter schools' growth.
Riverfront Times |
Kristen Hinman |
02-13-2009 |
Education
Tap Dancing Around the Antimodernity Movementnew
Why live your life like it’s the past? Because the present kind of sucks. Yes, it might seem odd for this faction of the antimodernity movement to obsess over the 1920s — after all, that era is arguably when modernity was born. It’s an era that seems both more decadent and more innocent than ours.
L.A. Weekly |
Gendy Alimurung |
02-13-2009 |
Performance
Signs of Life in the Dead of the Grammys Pressroomnew
No wonder print is on the ropes. We reporters are bores. A dying industry covering another dying industry, like a bunch of telegraph operators sending missives about a carburetor convention.
L.A. Weekly |
Randall Roberts |
02-13-2009 |
Music
We're Just Not That Into Drew Barrymore's Latestnew
Greg Behrendt’s know-it-all bossiness may work for a putative self-help handbook, but it doesn’t set quite the right tone for a chick flick aimed at a generation of females who, whether they know it or not, have been sufficiently empowered by the women’s movement to want to direct their own lives.
L.A. Weekly |
Ella Taylor |
02-13-2009 |
Reviews
Tom Tykwer Zings 'The International'new
What, might you ask, is the cause of all this cloak-and-dagger skullduggery? Well, I could tell you, but then I’d have to bore you.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
02-13-2009 |
Reviews
As Tennessee Gov. Assays the "State of the State," He and Others Look to Move Upnew
As "State of the State" messages go, the one delivered Monday night by Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen, who was awaiting congressional action on stimulus funds for the states, was best described as a holding action.
The Memphis Flyer |
Jackson Baker |
02-13-2009 |
Politics
Pretty Brutal: Work By Five Edgy Memphis Artistsnew
"Double Date" is an exhibition mounted by partners who are passionate about art and each other.
The Memphis Flyer |
Carol Knowles |
02-13-2009 |
Art
Animals in Art: Surveying American Wildlifenew
Some people have dismissed wildlife art as sentimental kitsch fit only for hotel lobbies or illustrating bird-watcher's handbooks. David J. Wagner might just change that perception with American Wildlife Art, a magisterial volume lavishly illustrated with more than 300 pictures, most in color.
Shepherd Express |
David Luhrssen |
02-13-2009 |
Nonfiction
Slank's 'Anthem for the Broken Hearted'new
They've sold 15 million records in their native Indonesia, and now the five members of Slank invade America with their first English-language album. Far from a reference to the lovelorn, the title refers to the inhabitants of a homeland riddled with strife and corruption.
Shepherd Express |
Michael Popke |
02-13-2009 |
Reviews
How Milwaukee Does Itnew
As always, the Shepherd’s Fifth Biennial Sex Survey is an unscientific sample, so it’s best to assume that its large, self-selected sample skews more sexually adventurous than the average Milwaukeean. But kinky as they can be, it seems that at heart Milwaukeeans are a bunch of romantics.
Shepherd Express |
Evan Rytlewski |
02-13-2009 |
Sex
Ohio Officials Worried About Higher Ed Cuts From Fed Stimulusnew
One provision of the stimulus legislation passed by the U.S. House that sustained cuts during the bipartisan Senate compromise was billions of dollars designed to aid ailing state economies, including funds Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland was counting on to keep tuition frozen next year.
The Athens NEWS |
David DeWitt |
02-13-2009 |
Economy
