AltWeeklies Wire
Dallas' Hottest Musical Export: Mall Punknew
For lack of a better descriptor, these acts are the latest proprietors of the mall punk scene, performing power pop, for the most part, and music that's been influenced heavily by the pop-punk sounds of the late '90s and the emo sounds of the early '00s. And their choice of genre is indicative of a greater trend happening here in Dallas and beyond.
Dallas Observer |
Pete Freedman |
06-15-2009 |
Music
How to Become More Medically Self-Sufficientnew
Dr. Charley Cropley shares five key things we can all do to take our health care into our own hands in order to improve the quality of our own lives, decrease our need for medical treatment and thus reduce our dependence on the health-care system.
Boulder Weekly |
Pamela White |
06-15-2009 |
Science
Animated Cartoon: Everywhere You Want To Benew
Some people think the government should get involved in the intimate relationship between consumers and their credit cards. Maybe they should think twice before ruining something special.
Maui Time |
Ted Rall |
06-13-2009 |
Commentary
Restive Americans Form a Nascent Resistance ... But Will Anyone Notice?
Why the anger? Six months after a new chancellor came to power amid promises of dramatic change, the Reich remains at war. Between the officially unemployed and the long-term dispossessed, 20 percent of North Americans are out of work. Auschwitz is closing and torture has been banned, but dissidents say Adolf Hitler III's reforms are merely window-dressing.
Maui Time |
Ted Rall |
06-13-2009 |
Commentary
Woody Allen on Life, Actors, Younger Women and His 40th Filmnew
Allen's Whatever Works marks the realization of a project he first conceived in the 1970s as a vehicle for Zero Mostel, then set aside following the actor's untimely death. The result is a light comic burlesque -- a minor key but eminently pleasurable Allen confection
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
06-12-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
A Dumpster Diver Loses His Right to Rummage at Vanderbilt Universitynew
Vanderbilt officials say their concern isn't theft—it's lawsuits. Dumpster diving isn't a big problem for the university -- they've never arrested anyone for Dumpster diving, and they continue to issue warnings of trespass charges for repeat offenders.
Nashville Scene |
Tracy Moore |
06-12-2009 |
Culture
'Pelham' Remake Makes It Out of the Station Only to Jump the Tracksnew
Director Tony Scott turns a presciently post-9/11 movie into an explicitly post-9/11 movie. Make that post-post-9/11: The chief bad guy only looks like a terrorist, when in fact he's an even scarier, more au courant foe -- a commodities trader!
Nashville Scene |
Jim Ridley |
06-12-2009 |
Reviews
Jam On It: Phish and DMB Fans Sound Off -- About Each Othernew
Never ask Phish fans the following question: "After Phish went on hiatus, how well do you feel that the Dave Matthews Band carried on and preserved Phish's musical traditions and legacy?"
Riverfront Times |
Annie Zaleski |
06-12-2009 |
Music
Co-Opting the Media: White Supremacist Code Printed Nationwidenew
James von Brunn, the accused shooter at the Holocaust Museum on Wednesday, is 88 years old. His age is no accident: "88" is white-supremacist code for "Heil Hitler." In printing his age, news outlets around the world have printed the white-supremacists' message.
Portland Phoenix |
Jeff Inglis |
06-12-2009 |
Crime & Justice
What's the Count? Anything and Everythingnew
Numbers, numbers, numbers. Major-league baseball swims in them, and 21st-century technology makes it all too easy to raise the numerical sea level. The latest milestone got us wondering which stats are really worth the obsession.
Shepherd Express |
Frank Clines and Art Kumbalek |
06-12-2009 |
Sports
Questions Surround Wisconsin Pro-Life Organization's Rhetoricnew
Wisconsin Right to Life's ads against proposed abortion services at a Madison clinic are seen by some as reckless and inflammatory.
Shepherd Express |
Lisa Kaiser |
06-12-2009 |
Policy Issues
Cyndi Lauper Talks LGBT Rights Ahead of Milwaukee PrideFestnew
The same fierce individualism that established Cyndi Lauper as one of the defining cultural sensations and fashion trendsetters of the 1980s kept her an icon in the gay community long after MTV retired her.
Shepherd Express |
Shepherd Express |
06-12-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Lawsuits and Tree-Sits Surround Oregon Bureau's Proposal to Lognew
A tree-sit has gone up in an Oregon forest where the state Bureau of Land Management proposes to log Fall Creek, an old-growth forest that has been successfully defended by tree-sitters time and time again.
Eugene Weekly |
Camilla Mortensen |
06-11-2009 |
Environment
Conor Oberst's Latest Is Unfocused and Bloatednew
Conor Oberst is chasing a new muse, and while he and his Mystic Valley Band find some success along the way, Outer South mostly plays against his strengths.
Tucson Weekly |
Eric Swedlund |
06-11-2009 |
Reviews
Leonard Cohen Is a Balladeer for the End Timesnew
Leonard Cohen's new two-disc set, recorded in London in 2008 with a nine-member band, sounds as beautifully apocalyptic as anything he's ever done.
Tucson Weekly |
Jarret Keene |
06-11-2009 |
Reviews
