AltWeeklies Wire
Annuals Tend the Future of Indie Popnew
Raleigh, N.C.-based indie-pop act Annuals started as a side project of Sunfold, but now the percussion-heavy sextet is the main attraction. And, though the group's members are now only in their early 20s, they're touring in support of their sophomore studio album as well as discovering and producing up-and-coming bands along the way.
Mountain Xpress |
Alli Marshall |
02-04-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
San Francisco's Flawed System for Counting the Homelessnew
San Francisco's biennial homeless count has long been used as an indicator of how well the city is dealing with homelessness, which would all be fine and good, if it weren't for one small and inconvenient fact for everyone involved: It is a meaningless charade.
SF Weekly |
Ashley Harrell |
02-04-2009 |
Policy Issues
Nurses' Union Joins Antidevelopment Forces to Prevent a New Hospital from Being Builtnew
There's something to be said for exploiting the process of issuing building permits for squeezing public amenities like parks from companies. But in San Francisco, participants in these sorts of tactics sometimes lose sight of all that's at stake.
SF Weekly |
Matt Smith |
02-04-2009 |
Housing & Development
Whose Side Are the Angels On?new
A new generation of activists is fighting to clean up the Tenderloin -- frequently dubbed San Francisco's worst neighborhood. The neighborhood’s churches are standing in their way.
Long Cheng Livestock Market Slays Your Meal in Front of Younew
A St. Paul slaughterhouse lets you watch as your dinner is butchered.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Rachel Hutton |
02-04-2009 |
Food+Drink
Tags: butchers, Twin Cities
New Law Could Make Fathers' Rights Come Smoothernew
In Minnesota family courts, judges decide what's best for the kids on a case-by-case basis. But fathers' groups are pushing to change the law so that judges must favor shared parenting time, known as joint physical custody.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Erin Carlyle |
02-04-2009 |
Civil Liberties
Tags: Minnesota, divorce law
Radiohead Cover Band Seeks to Unlock Thom Yorke's Geniusnew
What's That? recreate some of modern rock's most complex songs.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Bradley Campbell |
02-04-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Proud and Unbowed: Chattanooga’s African American Historynew
African American history is American history. There is no excuse not to learn the history that paved the way for their existence.
Paging Dr. Bearclaw: Josh Bazell’s Debut Novelnew
Mash up the best scenes of Dexter, House and The Sopranos, and Beat the Reaper is what you get.
San Diego CityBeat |
Michael Benninger |
02-04-2009 |
Fiction
Neil Gaiman on Whether You Should Take Your Kids to See 'Coraline'new
Coraline is like much of Gaiman’s work—inventive, funny and kinda scary, putting ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances.
San Diego CityBeat |
Anders Wright |
02-04-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Wavves of Successnew
His new band is only a few months old, but Nathan Williams may represent the next generation of San Diego music.
San Diego CityBeat |
Todd Kroviak |
02-04-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Folks Hoping to Start a Community Garden in San Diego Are Closer to Farmnew
Two years since the International Rescue Committee set out to start the New Roots Community Farm in San Diego's City Heights, the first physical sign of progress came into view: a chain link fence.
San Diego CityBeat |
Rebecca Tolin |
02-04-2009 |
Food+Drink
Feeling Left Outnew
Advocates for low-income communities wish the stimulus wish list wasn't so skewed toward wealthier neighborhoods.
San Diego CityBeat |
Kelly Davis |
02-04-2009 |
Economy
Mixed Emotions, No News in the Respectful 'Betrayed'new
Beneath its critical take on the American "mission" Betrayed puts Iraqi voices in the service of that other insular project: that of redeeming the myth of American moral superiority, even while foregrounding the play's composite but real-life Iraqi protagonists.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Robert Avila |
02-04-2009 |
Theater
Scoping out George Evelyn's Nightmares On Wax ruminationsnew
George Evelyn (a.k.a. Nightmares on Wax)'s music sonically embodies the phrase, "Let's just chill a moment." And despite his scary moniker, most of what Evelyn creates will induce sweet daydreams.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Tomas Palermo |
02-04-2009 |
Reviews
