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Ask a Mexican!new
"Mexicans are dirty gangbangers who spray graffiti everywhere."
Tags: Ask a Mexican, humor & satire
Debbie Wasserman Schultz: Lady of the Housenew
She's got three kids, 650,000 constituents, and millions of watching eyes. The Florida congresswoman can't keep them all happy.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Thomas Francis |
06-03-2008 |
Politics
On the Promising Candidacy of Barack Obamanew
Now there is a sense of possibility, of hope, of something changing the dreariness.
Metro Times |
Jack Lessenberry |
06-03-2008 |
Commentary
Risky Surgery Might Return an Eager Vet to Iraqnew
After being injured by an IED in Iraq, Richard Bennett has been searching for a doctor to reverse his injuries so he can return to the battle lines. "I just have to get my [spinal discs] replaced or fused ... either that or a doctor willing to sign a waiver saying I'm capable [for combat]," he says. But the doctors have been unwilling to operate, saying the surgery would be too risky on someone so young.
Philadelphia Weekly |
St. John Barned-Smith |
06-03-2008 |
War
What Role Will Recycling Play in Detroit's Future?new
The issue of recycling is wrapped up in the broader debate about what to do with the massive incinerator in Detroit that burns the city's trash, as well as garbage trucked in from the suburbs, creating steam and electricity in the process.
Metro Times |
Curt Guyette |
06-03-2008 |
Environment
Homophobic Attacks on the Rise in Michigannew
The National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs last week released a report showing a 24 percent increase nationally in reported anti-gay hate crimes from 2006 to 2007 -- Michigan had the largest increase among the states, jumping from 97 to 226.
Metro Times |
Staff |
06-03-2008 |
LGBT
Photographer Paul Duda Captures China's Cultural Landmarks as They're Destroyednew
Duda has been documenting the way things used to be -- before the 2008 Olympics spurred a national call for modernization of Beijing -- and the way things are now, with crumbling walls and loose bricks around every corner. "I got to photographing these areas in Beijing without any prior knowledge they were going to wipe it out," he says. "Then I went back and realized they were gone, so I just kept going back, kept re-photographing."
New Haven Advocate |
Laura Yao |
06-03-2008 |
Art
Is Emily Gould the New Journalism?new
The real question brought up by the publication of one girl's 8,000–word finger–flip to an ex–boyfriend in the New York Times Magazine goes like this: Because web traffic determines ad cost, is the distinction between good and popular collapsing?
Philadelphia Weekly |
Tara Murtha |
06-03-2008 |
Media
Confessions of an Internet TV Junkienew
Competitive reality shows, sitcoms, Wristcutters: A Love Story -- I need them all.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Caralyn Green |
06-03-2008 |
Commentary
Kung Fu Fighting: Jack Black Kicks Kid’s Humor from the Hip
Jack Black inhabits the animated panda called Po with so much of his signature whimsy that audiences get a double dose of Black’s comic persona.
'U.S. vs. Them' Explores the Paranoid Style in U.S. Foreign Policynew
In a new book on American foreign policy, New Republic editor J. Peter Scoblic spends a couple of hundred pages reviewing the historical record of Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and the current Bush presidency before getting to the real nub of the issue, in which he is succinctly correct: Conservatism, he writes, "although it has a clear intellectual pedigree, operates on a deep psychological level as well."
Artvoice |
Staff |
06-02-2008 |
Nonfiction
'Rock On' Takes Us into the Bowels of the Recording Industrynew
The main draw is not the book's humor but its behind-the-scenes tour of the profit-driven, out-of-touch mismanagement of a major record label.
An Open Letter to Gordon Ramsaynew
I tried, Chef, I really did, and on numerous occasions -- but I just cannot sit through an entire episode of Hell's Kitchen. Invariably, after or during one of your obscene and belittling rants, I tell you to shut the fuck up, consciously using one of your favorite expletives.
Carl Honore Puts On the Brakes with 'In Praise of Slowness'new
"I think that when you eat in a Slow way -- that is with a capital S -- you realize that when you put something in your mouth that there is a whole story behind it," he says. "We've lost all of that back story to our food that's been shorn away in this fast-forward culture."
Boulder Weekly |
Erica Grossman |
06-02-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
John McCain and the Doomsday Mobnew
With the primary contest behind him, McCain is now gearing up to run against "hope" and "change." In this broader race, lunatic pastors like John Hagee and Rod Parsley become extremely burdensome liabilities. So -- wink wink -- they get cut loose, at least for the next few months until they're needed again.
Artvoice |
Michael I. Niman |
06-02-2008 |
Commentary
