AltWeeklies Wire
Colorado Springs Assembles Emergency Plan to Save Olympic Committee Projectnew
Until funds were produced to renovate the Olympic Training Center, the USOC wouldn't sign a lease for its new Colorado Springs office building. And until the USOC was in, the city wouldn't go millions into debt. This charade couldn't go on forever. And the city has decided to end it.
Colorado Springs Independent |
J. Adrian Stanley |
04-07-2009 |
Economy
To Capture the Grasses and Bugs, One Artist Turns to Plasticnew
In time, Regan Rosburg has mastered the elusive resin (also called acrylic), an ultra-hard and particularly unforgiving clear plastic that she describes as "emotional."
Colorado Springs Independent |
Edie Adelstein |
04-07-2009 |
Art
Landscapes, Urban and Suburban, on the Brink of Catastrophenew
An ecology of tedium might threaten us here, given the cascade of exhibitions being devoted to landscape. But there are a sufficient number of individual artists in two local shows who succeed in making the subject their own, while escaping the stereotypes of the convention.
New Haven Advocate |
Stephen Vincent Kobasa |
04-07-2009 |
Art
Is Connecticut's Hand-Held Cell Phone Ban Making Roads Safer?new
The state makes virtually no effort to track that information and the evidence it has collected may leave you underwhelmed.
New Haven Advocate |
Andy Bromage |
04-07-2009 |
Policy Issues
The New Gold Rushnew
As the economy tanks, doomsayers and commodity traders say it's time to invest in the shiny stuff.
New Haven Advocate |
Nathan Paluck |
04-07-2009 |
Economy
Seth Rogen Takes Charge, and We Get to Laugh
Writer/director Jody Hill makes a quantum leap from his low-budget 2006 debut feature The Foot Fist Way with a hilarious subversive black comedy about America's post-9/11 culture of authority-abusing misfits, commonly referred to as security guards.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
04-06-2009 |
Reviews
The Members of Los Campesinos! Know How Lucky They Arenew
The music scene is clogged with performers desperately seeking stardom. So Los Campesinos! guitarist/songwriter Tom Campesinos! sees the irony in the quick rise of his group, which quickly earned buzz-band status even though none of its members actively sought it.
Westword |
Michael Roberts |
04-06-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Ken Salazar Has to Save the Interior Departmentnew
Facing a legacy of crumbling parks infrastructure, ravaged public lands and stunning mismanagement, the new Secretary has plenty to work on.
They'll Slaughter Your Dinner As You Watch -- But Don't Tell the Copsnew
At the tiny, often filthy farms of rural Northwest Dade County, Cubans and other immigrants keep alive a cottage industry of unlicensed slaughter.
Miami New Times |
Gus Garcia-Roberts |
04-06-2009 |
Food+Drink
The Trail of an Art Heist in France Ends in Suburban South Floridanew
In less than five minutes, five men stole $6.3 million worth of art. Thirteen months later, a Frenchman was sentenced to five years in prison for trying to sell the artwork in South Florida.
Miami New Times |
Michael J. Mooney |
04-06-2009 |
Crime & Justice
NASCAR Drivers Start Your Enginesnew
I stubbornly repeat: NASCAR drivers are not athletes.
Dallas Observer |
Richie Whitt |
04-06-2009 |
Sports
Tags: auto racing, sports & fitness
Beating a DWI Case May Soon Get a Lot Tougher in Dallasnew
Since last Memorial Day, the Dallas Police Department has had five "no-refusal" weekends, most recently this St. Patrick's Day. So far, 404 people have been arrested for DWI and refused a breath test. In some cases they were physically restrained and forced to give a blood sample.
Dallas Observer |
Kimberly Thorpe |
04-06-2009 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: Dallas, drunk driving
Sci-Fi Revival Without Causenew
This deadpan homage hardly lifts an eyebrow at the aliens, horny teens, eccentric scientists, and dopey lawmen in the small desert town where a flying saucer lands. We know these conventions, from The Blob to The Day the Earth Stood Still, which Alien Trespass dutifully recreates. But why?
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
04-06-2009 |
Reviews
Light in the Attic Releases the "Sgt. Pepper's of French Music"new
Seattle-based Light in the Attic Records has become the first label to release Serge Gainsbourg's Histoire de Melody Nelson in the United States. Knowing this, the question is: Why didn't anyone else ever think of doing it?
Seattle Weekly |
Brian J. Barr |
04-06-2009 |
Music
Students Pitch Budget Cuts to Washington Governornew
Washington students' message to Gov. Chris Gregoire: Cut your friends, not our schools.
Seattle Weekly |
Rick Anderson |
04-06-2009 |
Economy
