AltWeeklies Wire
The Song Remains the Same: Pittsburgh's Going to the Super Bowlnew
Like the displays loaded with black 'n' gold novelties cropping up in Pittsburgh's Strip District, the Steelers going to the Super Bowl also means local musicians popping up with would-be fight songs, vying for air-time and fans' pocketbooks.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Aaron Jentzen |
02-02-2009 |
Recreation
Groomers Smooth Out Slopes All Night, Enjoy Sunrisesnew
The average skier pushes a thousand pounds of snow down the hill in a day. Without groomers to plow some of that back up the hill, we’d be rock skiing all season long.
Boulder Weekly |
Andrew Wineke |
02-02-2009 |
Culture
Tags: skiing, cat drivers
White Out: Canadian Unwittingly Writes How-To Guide for Living in Bouldernew
Is it a crime to want your children to be multilingual? What about driving a Prius, or eating only hormone-free ice cream? Are these inherently white, hopelessly misguided choices, too? Isn’t at least free-trade gourmet coffee a white-people win-win?
Boulder Weekly |
Jim Lillie |
02-02-2009 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Newspaper of the Future: Part IIInew
The daily newspaper business has addressed its problems in much the same way that our government has addressed the recession: by resorting to short-term remedies that fail to address the issues at a fundamental level, rather than engaging in the long-term retooling that is necessary to create sustainability.
Boulder Weekly |
Stewart Sallo |
02-02-2009 |
Commentary
Tags: media, alt-weeklies
What's God Got to Do With It?new
While hot-button religious issues these topics garner lots of ink and keep blogs busy, are they the issues that matter most in the day-to-day practice of religion in our nation?
Boulder Weekly |
Jim Lillie |
02-02-2009 |
Culture
Tags: religion
Sowing the Future: International Seed Saving Daynew
Just as farmers in the developing world are facing challenges to their old way of cultivation, so are those in the developed world. With more and more of the seed for our major food crops being developed and sold by fewer and larger companies, the loss of diversity is just as troublesome here.
Santa Barbara Independent |
Virginia Hayes |
02-02-2009 |
Gardening
Talking About the Trade with Newsweek’s Back Page Punditnew
With her smart, snappy take on politics and society, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Anna Quindlen has spent years fox-trotting back and forth across the column-writing tightrope—and making it look easy.
Santa Barbara Independent |
Starshine Roshell |
02-02-2009 |
Culture
Tags: Anna Quindlen, columnists
Comeback Kids: 2009 in Santa Barbara Musicnew
A new year brings with it plenty of artists ripe and ready to crawl out of the woodwork and back onto the stage. So far, it seems like 2009 is no different than those years that came before it, with a boatload of old favorites preparing themselves for another round of musical takeover.
Santa Barbara Independent |
Aly Comingore |
02-02-2009 |
Music
Tags: live music, Santa Barbara
Going Going, Back Back, in Rap History: 'Notorious'new
Maybe it’s not a work of sheer genius, but Notorious blows past all the recent tragedy-tinged pop music biopics.
Santa Barbara Independent |
D.J. Palladino |
02-02-2009 |
Reviews
Eric Johnson is Happy to Join the Shins, but He Won't Give Up His Musical Babynew
"There was kind of this idea that people were like, 'Well now you don't have to do that Fruit Bats thing anymore. Good for you! You're off the hook!,'" Johnson says.
Santa Barbara Independent |
Aly Comingore |
02-02-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
California Lands Commission Kills Enviro-Supported Oil Dealnew
The California State Lands Commission voted down a potentially historic deal between Plains Exploration and Production (PXP) oil company and a cadre of Santa Barbara environmental leaders that would have granted new oil drilling permits within California state waters for the first time in 40 years.
Santa Barbara Independent |
Ethan Stewart |
02-02-2009 |
Environment
Not As Many Apply to UCSBnew
On the heels of the University of California’s announcement that it would be cutting freshman enrollment for the 2009-10 school year by 2,300 students, UCSB officials announced that the school received 54,758 applications for enrollment this coming fall.
Santa Barbara Independent |
Drew Mackie |
02-02-2009 |
Education
Goleta Residents, Planners Fret Over Condo Architecture, Beach Accessnew
The appearance of Goleta’s popular Haskell’s Beach has changed in recent years, and if higher-ups at Bacara Resort have their way, it will change yet even more.
Santa Barbara Independent |
Lara Cooper |
02-02-2009 |
Housing & Development
Still Black After All These Yearsnew
Otis Taylor might not know a lot about the Blues, but he's good at being black.
Boulder Weekly |
Dylan Otto Krider |
02-01-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
'Transit' Aims for High Intrigue on a Low Budget, With Mixed Resultsnew
Shot on video and with minimal lighting, the film has a cheap aesthetic that it struggles to overcome. The plot doesn’t break out of the genre’s clichés. It’s a common case of a filmmaker’s ambition being greater than his means.
Montreal Mirror |
Malcolm Fraser |
01-30-2009 |
Reviews
