AltWeeklies Wire
The Amazements Marvel With Storytelling, a Skate Anthem, and Fearsome Songsnew
An Amazements song sounds like little else: they feel Shaggs-y in their odd, homegrown sense of rock, but they definitely aren't making music in a vacuum.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Michael Harkin |
02-04-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: indie rock, The Amazements
Hipsters and the Emergence of Altpornnew
Altporn is, on a basic level, porn that features models who are representatives of real-life subcultures like goth, punk, rave, emo, rockabilly, and hipster.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Juliette Tang |
02-04-2009 |
Culture
Tags: pornography, altporn
San Francisco Mayor's Budget: More Hungry Homeless People, More Deaths at SF Generalnew
On the ground, the budget cuts San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom is proposing translate into staggering losses in services that segments of the city's most disadvantaged populations rely on.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
http://www.sfbg.com/entry.php?entry_id=7986&catid=4 |
02-04-2009 |
Economy
Tags: San Francisco, economic issues
Bay Area Communities Are Demanding More to Offset Emissions Harmnew
Word that automobile emissions standards may soon improve was good news, but Bay Area leaders and communities are demanding even more to offset the harm that comes from tailpipes.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Andrew W. Shaw |
02-04-2009 |
Environment
Tags: Bay Area, emissions standards
SEIU-UHW Fight Could Have Big Implications in the Bay Areanew
Fallout from the power struggle between Service Employees International Union and its Oakland-based local, United Healthcare Workers, has been felt particularly strongly in the Bay Area since SEIU took over UHW and ousted its leaders.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Steven T. Jones |
02-04-2009 |
Business & Labor
Cabernet Francnew
Without cabernet franc, Bordeaux blends on both banks would lose much of their complexity.
San Antonio Current |
Ron Bechtol |
02-04-2009 |
Food+Drink
Tags: wine
Sarah & Octopusnew
Sarah & Octopus have jazz chops and tons of ambition, and their complex pieces can wear you out with their car-crash meter shifts and wild leaps across the harmonic spectrum.
San Antonio Current |
Gilbert Garcia |
02-04-2009 |
Concerts
Tags: indie rock, Sarah & Octopus
Aether's 'Artifacts'new
San Antonio hip-hop producer Diego Chavez’s first solo outing creates a MacBook-powered soundscape that falls quietly between Handsome Boy Modeling School (minus humor) and Brian Eno (minus sleepiness).
San Antonio Current |
Matt Ramos |
02-04-2009 |
Reviews
Tripping through the 'Twilight Zone'new
Not merely a puff piece, Rod Serling and the Twilight Zone portrays a complex view of the famed auteur.
San Antonio Current |
Rick Klaw |
02-04-2009 |
Nonfiction
Henry Rayburn: Gone, Far Too Soonnew
The loss of Henry Rayburn — artist, architect, activist, volunteer, world traveler, and world-class charmer — is a shock to the art community, the LGBT community, as well as his many family members and friends.
San Antonio Current |
Sarah Fisch |
02-04-2009 |
Art
Tags: visual arts, Henry Rayburn
Diane Cibrian: Active Consensus Builder, or Political Strong-Arm?new
In her two years on the San Antonio City Council, Diane Cibrian has established a reputation for wanting to be involved in every aspect of the municipal government process. Her advocates say that it reflects her zeal to bring about positive change in the community. Her detractors grumble that she has boundary issues.
San Antonio Current |
Gilbert Garcia |
02-04-2009 |
Politics
Tags: San Antonio, Diane Cibrian
Breedlove the Beautiful Boynew
Artists know the long tradition of the Beautiful Boy, the male Lolita whose siren song has transfixed sculptors and painters for millennia and led many a hapless older man (and more than a few women) astray.
Willamette Week |
Richard Speer |
02-04-2009 |
Art
Petite Movies With Hearts Big Enough for Oscarnew
For all their brevity, the short films nominated this year for the Oscar carry as much invention and feeling as any feature-length movie from last year.
Willamette Week |
Aaron Mesh |
02-04-2009 |
Movies
Mudhoney Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary With a Pub Crawlnew
While grunge died in the ’90s, Mudhoney lives on, adding subtle melodic elements to its arsenal but never gunning for a more commercially viable sound.
Willamette Week |
Michael Mannheimer |
02-04-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Some Portlanders See a Double Standardnew
A city leader loses his job when the public learns embarrassing details of an affair he’d cultivated in his past. Portland Mayor Sam Adams’ current predicament? No. It’s the situation faced in 2006 by then-Police Chief Derrick Foxworth.
Willamette Week |
James Pitkin |
02-04-2009 |
Politics
