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New Age Healer Dr. Reinalda De Souza Claims She Killed Michael Jacksonnew
"They think someone pumped him full of Demerol," she spat, her rage building. "It was a curse I learned long ago in Sao Paulo that stopped his heart. As soon as your story hits the street, the whole world will know that I -- Dr. Reinalda de Souza -- killed Jacko!"
Phoenix New Times |
Joseph Rossi |
07-07-2009 |
Music
Meet the Powder Creek Cowboys: The Fastest Guns in Lenexanew
Dennis Ryan has been a Leavenworth County paramedic for close to 30 years, treating wounds from car crashes and farm accidents but almost never gunshots. At Powder Creek, he's just Croaker -- one of the fastest guns in east Kansas and the man who won the Prince of Pistoleers last year.
The Pitch |
Peter Rugg |
07-07-2009 |
Recreation
The More Tom Waits Creates 'Tom Waits,' the Less Anyone Knows About Himnew
Outside of his showman's persona, Waits is intensely private, banking perhaps on the presumption that his fans possess a happy lack of curiosity about what fuels his greatness. Barney Hoskyns confirmed this trait the hard way while working on Lowside of the Road.
Baltimore City Paper |
Van Smith |
07-07-2009 |
Nonfiction
Jason Rapczynski Writes a Novel in Three Days -- and Gets it Publishednew
For 31 years, the 3-Day Novel Contest has provided an outlet for any writer, would-be or otherwise, to pound the keys and get it done. Bonus: The contest winner works with an editor and gets the novel published by 3-Day Books, which organizes the contest.
New Haven Advocate |
David Riedel |
07-07-2009 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
How Michael Jackson (Sort Of) Introduced Me to the Rolling Stonesnew
Now that Michael Jackson's gone, it's how seeing that poster in my cousin's room led to "State of Shock" and a lifelong love of (and occasional obsession with) the Stones that I remember most.
Houston Press |
Chris Gray |
07-07-2009 |
Music
Tags: Michael Jackson, rolling stones
Parasite City: A Gnawing Bed Bug Problem Grows in Southeast Baltimorenew
People whose homes have been infested say they have noticed a pattern: Spanish-speaking immigrants rent a rowhouse, and soon it becomes overcrowded. Mattresses are discarded on the street, leaning against fences or in areaways. Then neighboring homes are infested with bed bugs.
Baltimore City Paper |
Edward Ericson Jr. |
07-07-2009 |
Science
The Peculiar Challenges of Archiving Newspapers in the Information Agenew
Newspapers are practicing a journalism that will probably turn out to be as different from tomorrow's as it is from yesterday's. Transitional periods are fascinating as they happen and damned hard later to reconstruct. How complete will the record be of this one?
Chicago Reader |
Michael Miner |
07-07-2009 |
Media
Peace, What is it Good For? Coming to Terms With War in the Obama Eranew
"Peace" does not automatically exist when war stops. Peace is not just an absence of war. At least, this is not how those who work for peace in the world feel about it.
New Haven Advocate |
Alan Bisbort |
07-07-2009 |
War
Allison Burgess Stakes Her Reputation on Mystery Meatnew
In 2001 Burgess began working on her meat substitute in the kitchen of her home. Today there are six varieties of Match Meat: beef, chicken, pork, crab, and Italian and breakfast sausage. Made from soy protein, wheat gluten, water and natural flavorings, Match comes frozen and unseasoned, as bland as any supermarket meat.
Riverfront Times |
Aimee Levitt |
07-06-2009 |
Food+Drink
The Way the Adams County Coroner is Running His Office Could be Dead Wrongnew
Jim Hibbard has been a magnet for controversy. His office has been plagued by massive turnover since his arrival, resulting in a drain of seasoned death investigators and a rash of embarrassing blunders by inexperienced staff and interns.
Westword |
Alan Prendergast |
07-06-2009 |
Crime & Justice
Remembering the King of Popnew
I think we can all agree that Michael Jackson was an icon. Although in recent years, his vast musical accomplishments have been overshadowed by the tabloid headlines, he's still the best-selling artist of all time, a rare performer whose appeal spanned generations and transcended gender and race lines.
Tags: Michael Jackson
'Evangelion 1.0: You Are (Not) Alone': C'mon, Dad, Give Me the Giant Battle-Bot!new
Evangelion 1.0 lacks the sophistication, darkness, and violence of Ghost in the Shell or Akira. It's a tamer work that may improve -- through releases 2.0, 3.0, and 4.0 -- as Shinji starts to shave and possibly acts upon his hormonal urges.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
07-06-2009 |
Reviews
Sunset Rubdown's Latest is Perhaps its Best Yetnew
Dragonslayer is a sprawling, whimsical journey into Spencer Krug's psyche, it features ruminations on relationships; emotional calls to arms; and angry, near-vicious screeds against his detractors (including himself).
Dallas Observer |
Ben Westhoff |
07-06-2009 |
Reviews
Black-Market Cigarettes: Miami's New Vicenew
A gray-haired 57-year-old Florida man named Roman Vidal smuggled millions of cigarettes from Miami to Dublin criminals who funded a terrorist group, investigators say. The charges are just the latest link between black-market U.S. smokes and violent terrorist groups around the world.
Miami New Times |
Tim Elfrink |
07-06-2009 |
Crime & Justice
Single-Payer Advocates Crashing the Gatesnew
One of the main reasons I am running for Congress is to get single payer health care for all Americans. To push for it, I am running prime-time cable ads round-the-clock on CNN and MSNBC challenging my opponent, longtime incumbent Jane Harman, to sign on to Congressman John Conyers' bill for single-payer.
Random Lengths News |
Marcy Winograd |
07-05-2009 |
Commentary
