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Sweat Lodges Are Usually Sacred Places of Purification, Not Profiteeringnew
Google the words "sweat lodge," and the third result is a CNN report about the Sedona sweat-lodge deaths at James Arthur Ray's $9,695 Spiritual Warrior retreat in October.
Tucson Weekly |
Irene Messina |
01-13-2010 |
Religion
The Town of Arivaca Attempts to Recover After a Grisly Double Murdernew
A double-murder in the small border-area town of Arivaca, Arizona, has the nation's anti-immigrant movement reeling. We have mementos from the night that armed intruders entered the modest home of Raul and Gina Flores, the 911 recording of Gina among them.
Tucson Weekly |
Tim Vanderpool |
01-13-2010 |
Immigration
Accessibility's Rainbow: Thomas Pynchon's 'Inherent Vice'new
A mere three years after the infamously reclusive author released Against the Day, a 1,000-plus-page world’s fair of themes, characters and pastiched genres, Pynchon may have thrown us his strangest curveball yet by delivering a novel that is accessible, readable, and relatively short: that is, rather un-Pynchonesque.
Tags: Inherent Vice, Thomas Pynchon
Israeli Folk Group HaBanot Nechama is Ready to Comfort America Nextnew
HaBanot Nechama's soulful, acoustic songs revel in femininity. Layers of lush vocals, in a fluently shifting mix of English and Hebrew, dance over lurching reggae rhythms and finger-snapping folk. These ladies are feisty — maybe a little gypsy in spirit — but they also seem sweet.
San Diego CityBeat |
AnnaMaria Stephens |
01-13-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: HaBanot Nechama
Does the Flu Vaccination Policy at Children’s Hospital Violate Employees' Rights?new
Gillian Kirkpatrick thinks the hospital’s new flu vaccination policy goes too far. The policy requires that all staff either get a shot for H1N1 and seasonal flu or don the badge and mask. It violates her privacy, she says. And parents have been giving her uneasy looks.
San Diego CityBeat |
Peter Holslin |
01-13-2010 |
Science
Where Can I Find Comic Books?new
I went to four stores in one week, and in every single one, overgrown boys stood gloomily talking about girls—their problems with, their fantasies about. I also saw things strange and beautiful, thought-provoking and challenging and perhaps even the opposite of cliché.
San Diego CityBeat |
Clea Hantman |
01-13-2010 |
Books
Alamo Colleges Set to Resume Debate With Chancellor Bruce Leslienew
After an overwhelming vote of no confidence in Chancellor Bruce Leslie in September, whose unpopularity stems in large part from his attempts to unify the colleges, and a recent meeting on the issue of accreditation, the fight is ready to spill over into the new semester.
San Antonio Current |
Robert J. Pohl |
01-13-2010 |
Education
Not Just Another Roadside Attraction, World's Biggest Cowboy Boots Turn 30new
According to TxDOT, every day an estimated 182,000 cars pass by Bob “Daddy-O” Wade’s Giant Justins sculpture in front of North Star Mall. When I explained to the TxDOT public-relations employee why I wanted to know, she gasped, “Oh, I love those boots!”
San Antonio Current |
Sarah Fisch |
01-13-2010 |
Art
Indulge in the Culinary Triple-Threat at Restaurant Insiginianew
Salt, sugar, and fat: They’re the one-two-three punch of 21st-century food. In coming up with a menu for Insignia in the Fairmount, his new globally influenced American restaurant, Jason Dady unabashedly makes use of all three. Chicken and waffles are a case in point.
San Antonio Current |
Ron Bechtol |
01-13-2010 |
Food+Drink
Tags: Insignia, Jason Dady
Odd Dynamics in Prez Race Could Decide Debate Over Columbia River Crossingnew
Metro’s role in transportation and land-use planning often puts it at the intersection of jobs and the environment. That conflict is most obvious in two issues recently dominating the council’s agenda, and they will be key issues in the three-way campaign for president.
Willamette Week |
Nigel Jaquiss |
01-13-2010 |
Politics
A Chinese Oregonian Takes Back the Armorynew
Bruce Locke starred in such films as Black Rain, The Shadow, and especially Robocop 3, in which he played a trio of robot ninja assassins. Now Locke is starring in a production of Snow Falling on Cedars in a building that building was built in case of a Chinese immigrant uprising.
Willamette Week |
Ben Waterhouse |
01-13-2010 |
Theater
Heath Ledger’s Death the Least of Dr. Parnassus’ Problemsnew
The most impressive thing about The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus is its very existence. About a third of the way through filming the mind-bending fantasy, leading man Heath Ledger died of a tragic drug overdose. Director Terry Gilliam ingeniously cast three of Ledger's A-list friends to play Ledger's character.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
01-12-2010 |
Reviews
Jayne Anne Phillips Summons Faulkner in 'Lark & Termite'new
On July 26, 1950, Corp. Robert Leavitt is leading a frenzied retreat in rural Korea. On July 26, 1959, his orphaned son Termite is sitting under a tree in West Virginia waiting for a rainstorm. Inside the house, Termite's half-sister Lark is baking him a birthday cake.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Wyatt Williams |
01-12-2010 |
Fiction
Outgoing Mayor Shirley Franklin’s Tenure Had a Rocky Finishnew
Talk to many voters or scrutinize poll results and you'll likely find that people are wary of smooth-talking career politicians. They yearn to elect someone genuine who understands the concerns and challenges of average folk. They want a real person.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Scott Henry |
01-12-2010 |
Politics
Rod Stewart: 'The Rod Stewart Sessions 1971-1998'new
There are dozens of Rod Stewart compilations covering everything from his early years as the sassy, strutting "Rod the Mod" Faces frontman to his most recent incarnation as a somewhat unlikely crooner of the great American songbook. This isn't one more. Rather, the four-disc box unearths rarities.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Hal Horowitz |
01-12-2010 |
Reviews
