AltWeeklies Wire
Obama Would Bring a Community Organizer's Unique Perspective to the White Housenew
We've had bandleaders, haberdashers, generals, diplomats, farmers and professors in the White House, but as far as I can tell, we've never had an organizer. What would it be like? Very different, I think.
Syracuse New Times |
Ed Griffin-Nolan |
05-29-2008 |
Commentary
Your Home is Your Castle? Tell it to 'The Strangers'new
If The Strangers is merely a home invasion movie, it is a home-invasion movie in the sense that The Birds is -- what happens is punishment for humans who have lost faith in each other.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Richard von Busack |
05-29-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Bryan Bentino, The Strangers
Proposed Federal Laws Could Sweep Away Low-Wage Workersnew
The Shuler-Tancredo SAVE Act would require all employers to use E-Verify to check the legal status of their employees. Presently E-Verify is a free system that employers voluntarily use to check new hires. Critics point out that it has been shown to have serious shortcomings, the most problematic being the tendency to deliver "false positive" matches, declaring citizens in good standing to be illegal.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Diane Solomon |
05-29-2008 |
Business & Labor
Why Does the Blogosphere Hate Bush?new
Bush will not be regarded as a top-tier president by historians -- although the verdict, I believe, won't be as severe as is currently bandied about. After all, he'll ultimately compared to the likes of James Buchanan, Woodrow Wilson, and Herbert Hoover.
New York Press |
Russ Smith |
05-29-2008 |
Commentary
Midwives Fight for Home Births and Autonomynew
North Carolina's high rate of combined fetal and neonatal mortality rank it in the bottom sixth of the nation. The state is also one of only 11 in the country where the practice of midwifery outside the supervision of physicians is illegal. Some don't think that's a coincidence.
INDY Week |
Suzanne Nelson |
05-29-2008 |
Children & Families
Bait and Kill: Soldier Resists More Deadly Missionsnew
A soldier who once participated in the Army's "bait and kill" teams in Iraq now suffers from PTSD now faces a court martial, prison and no treatment for his injuries for his refusal to fight in a war he does not believe in.
Eugene Weekly |
Camilla Mortensen |
05-28-2008 |
War
Human-Animal Hybrids Could be Stem Cell Goldminesnew
Last week the British Parliament began the process of legalizing human-animal hybrid embryo cloning. While not explicitly illegal in the US, the process has been so criticized that most researchers have stayed away from it.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Annalee Newitz |
05-28-2008 |
Tech
'What It Is' Mixes Workbook, Memoir, and Zen Koansnew
Cartoonist Lynda Barry has adapted some of her “Unthinkable” wisdom for a book called What It Is -- and it is an odd little creature.
San Antonio Current |
John DeFore |
05-28-2008 |
Original Work
Sen. Tom Coburn: McCain is an 'Old Fart'new
The Oklahoma senator said the Republican presidential candidate John McCain is "an old fart," but is singularly qualified to lead the country.
Oklahoma Gazette |
Ben Fenwick |
05-28-2008 |
Politics
House Built on High Hopes Goes Down in Flamesnew
A cauldron of squatters and property owners, stirred by green dreams and the bursting housing bubble, set an unusual Oakland house ablaze.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Shane Bauer |
05-28-2008 |
Housing & Development
Siblings Different as Apples and Orangesnew
In Apples and Oranges, a memoir of sibling discord within her own family, Marie Brenner applies her skills as an investigative reporter to trying to fathom and repair her strained relationship with Carl. Jumping about in space and time, her memoir challenges the reader to find design amid absences and missed connections.
San Antonio Current |
Steven G. Kellman |
05-28-2008 |
Nonfiction
Bring Black Back to San Diegonew
The new San Diego African American Culture Center reintroduces a black presence to downtown.
San Diego CityBeat |
Kinsee Morlan |
05-28-2008 |
Recreation
'Surfwise' Asks If Blood is Thicker Than Seawaternew
At the film's center is the patriarch, Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz, an octogenarian who lived a fairly typical early life -- two unsuccessful marriages, an unsatisfying medical practice fueled by a Stanford education -- and lived only to make his way to the beach to go surfing.
San Diego CityBeat |
Anders Wright |
05-28-2008 |
Reviews
You Don't Remember Swervedrivernew
Not really. They're the quintessential band you've heard of without ever actually hearing. You discovered them late or after-the-fact, if you discovered them at all. But don't beat yourself up.
San Diego CityBeat |
Dryw Keltz |
05-28-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Reasons Why Robert Smith Just Might be the Rodney Dangerfield of Rocknew
Even within The Cure's seemingly bread-and-butter demographic (the Goth community), reverence is reserved for bands like Joy Division and Bauhaus while The Cure is often relegated to condescending comments like, “Fisher Price: My first Goth band.”
San Diego CityBeat |
Seth Combs |
05-28-2008 |
Music
