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After Their Lanlord Disappears, Tenants Get Power Cut Offnew
Steve and Mae, high school sweethearts in the 1970s who married others but reunited 15 years ago, have lived in Colorado Springs more than a decade. Their slide into hell began last November, when their landlord boarded a Greyhound bus and vanished. Since she had been paying the utilities, her tenants now live without power.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Rich Tosches |
04-29-2008 |
Housing & Development
How Far Philadelphia Has (and Hasn't) Come in Terms of Votingnew
Did Michael Nutter's election move Philly into a post-racial voting era? Or were voters still widely using race as a deciding factor in the polls? The frustrating answer: It was hard to tell.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Tom Namako |
04-29-2008 |
Politics
Bike Polo Brings a Familiar Game to the Asphaltnew
It's a warm Sunday afternoon on the tennis courts at a Madison park, and two teams of three riders -- each with a mallet in one hand, handlebars gripped in the other and both feet on the pedals -- are going after a street-hockey ball yet somehow avoiding collisions with each other.
The Ongoing Olympic Torch Relay Brings Fresh Nightmares and Memories of 1980new
Thanks to the IOC, China has the opportunity to use the world stage in August as a platform for propaganda. And that awful word, boycott, has seeped back into the Olympic movement's consciousness. You have to wonder what might happen if the situation escalates much more.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Ralph Routon |
04-29-2008 |
Sports
Tags: China, Olympic Torch, Olympics, protests, Tibet, Jimmy Carter, boycott, Moscow, sports & fitness
Honey is Good for More than Just Foodnew
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin and elsewhere are exploring uses of honey for a number of ailments, from diabetic ulcers to the effects of radiation treatments.
Isthmus |
Andrew McDonnell |
04-29-2008 |
Food+Drink
Four Govs Gather at Yale Climate Conference to Promise They Won't Let the World Endnew
Governors Jon Corzine, Kathleen Sebelius, Jodi Rell and, of course, Arnold Schwarzenegger, met to sign a declaration to renew statewide efforts to reduce our collective carbon footprint. The event marked the 100th anniversary of the original 1908 "governors conference" sponsored by then-President Theodore Roosevelt, which called the public "to consider the weightiest problem now before the nation."
New Haven Advocate |
Alexis Fitts |
04-29-2008 |
Environment
Getting to Know Our Captors: Errol Morris Connects the Pictures to Their Takers
Documentarian Errol Morris effectively takes the viewer inside the atmosphere of psychological and physical abuse doled out by American military personnel at Abu Ghraib by connecting the hundreds of damning photos taken by soldiers to their context.
What Do '88 Minutes' and 'Baby Mama' Have in Common?new
The unforgiving advance of time, leading to great panic and momentous life-or-death decisions. Both films are also funny -- but only one is meant to be.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Al Hoff |
04-28-2008 |
Reviews
Nick Lowe, a Maverick at 60new
For someone who sees himself as relatively obscure, Lowe's been showing up a lot lately. Last June he released his 13th studio album, At My Age, and in February celebrated the 30th anniversary and reissue of his 1978 solo debut, Jesus of Cool.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Margaret Welsh |
04-28-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
'New Yorker' Pop-music Critic Sasha Frere-Jones Chatsnew
On criticisms of his criticism, the blogosphere and quality vs. quantity.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Andy Mulkerin |
04-28-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
The New Roots Album has Some Feeling Nostalgicnew
I didn't get hardcore Rootsy until '99 when they dropped their commercial breakthrough Things Fall Apart, which people were touting as the last great hip-hop album of the 20th century. (Looking back, it kinda was.)
Philadelphia Weekly |
Craig D. Lindsey |
04-28-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Rat Bastard Takes International Noise Conference on the Roadnew
Instead of booking a cross-country Laundry Room Squelchers tour, he decided to hold a different International Noise Conference in a different city nearly every night through April.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Doug Wallen |
04-28-2008 |
Concerts
Tokyo's Colette Columbirch Hope to Call Philly Homenew
On top of dealing with the usual impression-management of a musical existence (wooing bloggers, bookers, promoters, A&R tools, fans and journalists alike), Japanese hush-tronica duo Colette Columbirch have got to deal with impressing the toughest critic of all -- the U.S. government.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Caralyn Green |
04-28-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Chicken Kabobsnew
A summer classic and a real char star for those who crave fire-licked meat. Serves four.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Tim McGinnis |
04-28-2008 |
Food+Drink
'Zombie Strippers' Lives Down to Its Namenew
Writer/director Jay Lee's Zombie Strippers is a fascinating whatzit, and presumably the first cheeseball boobie-filled gore-fest ever to be based on a Eugene Ionesco play.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Sean Burns |
04-28-2008 |
Reviews
