AltWeeklies Wire
Tres Strikes for Sen. Gordon Smithnew
How an undocumented immigrant worked at Smith Frozen Foods for nearly a decade.
Willamette Week |
Beth Slovic |
09-24-2008 |
Immigration
The Bushies Return to Texasnew
Perhaps it's not surprising that more than a few members of Bush's Texas contingent have been making their ways back home. After all, it is still Republican country. However, like the rest of the nation, Texans aren't particularly high on Bush right now -- and that includes even those in the state's Republican Party.
The Texas Observer |
Anthony Zurcher |
09-24-2008 |
Politics
'American Earth' Offers Vivid View of the Evolution of Environmental Thinkingnew
American Earth comprises some 100 writings sure-handedly selected and introduced by editor Bill McKibben. Individual entries take a variety of forms, from book excerpts, essays, and speeches to straightforward reportage, memoir, and even poetry.
The Texas Observer |
John Suval |
09-24-2008 |
Nonfiction
The Obama Awakeningnew
No longer is it just a handful of blue-haired activists who show up at county party meetings. Young people and old people alike are not just voting for the first time, but also paying attention for the first time.
The Texas Observer |
Rachel Farris |
09-24-2008 |
Commentary
'What Rhymes With Bastard?': Best. Book. Title. Ever.new
Linda Robertson's memoir recounts the crash-and-burn of her relationship with a tall, thin, slope-shouldered, coke-snorting, ecstasy-swallowing, vodka-swilling chainsmoker who loved anal sex. (She hated it.)
East Bay Express |
Anneli Rufus |
09-24-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Face the Economic Tough Times by Cooking Up Some 1930s-Style Foodnew
In May, one of the nation's largest cooking sites, AllRecipes.com, reported that traffic to recipe pages using low-cost ingredients nearly doubled in the first three months of the year and that searches for low-cost foods increased as much 107 percent. In June, I wrote about the recession-led increase in sales of Spam luncheon globs. And all that was before the economic downturn had turned into an economic smackdown.
San Diego CityBeat |
D.A. Kolodenko |
09-24-2008 |
Food+Drink
Tags: food, recipes, cooking, eating, economic issues, Spam, Great Depression, AllRecipes.com, penny pinching
How Will W's Library Shape His Legacy?new
It's somewhat ironic that the Bush administration would create the first presidential library with a policy think tank attached. That has led some critics to wonder if the think tank will engage in genuine policy innovation or mainly try to shape Bush's legacy.
The Texas Observer |
Forrest Wilder |
09-24-2008 |
Politics
Comrade Bush Nationalizes the Banksnew
The panicky flight from free-market orthodoxy in the United States is bound to fuel a revival of government intervention and welfare-state policies in the rest of the world. In the United States itself, however, they are likely to hang the wrong culprit in the end.
The Georgia Straight |
Gwynne Dyer |
09-24-2008 |
Economy
Readers Text in Votes for Sarah Palin's Next Baby Namenew
Gwyneth had Apple. Posh had Brooklyn. And moose-killing miracle mom Sarah Palin beat them all with Trig Paxson Van Palin.
Boston Phoenix |
Lance Gould |
09-23-2008 |
Commentary
Debbie Cook Takes on Orange County's Weirdest Republican Congressmannew
With little help from her fellow Democrats, Huntington Beach Mayor Debbie Cook takes on Orange County's weirdest Republican congressman, Dana Rohrabacher, a fight primarily motivated by the "Surfing Congressman's" ignorance of environmental issues.
Trendzilla: 'Gossip Girl' Paves Way for Prep-School Chicnew
The show has made a nation of kids attempt the WASPy, conservative, Upper East Side look -- in short, Ralph Lauren's suddenly cool again to 16-year-olds.
Yoko Ono is Still Only Trying to Get Us Some Peacenew
Yoko Ono loves you. But that's only one of the messages the avant-guarde artist and widow of Beatle John Lennon is sending through her latest work, "Wish Tree for Pasadena." Now more than ever, it's time to give peace a chance.
Pasadena Weekly |
Joe Piasecki |
09-23-2008 |
War
A Brief and Wondrous Interview with Junot Diaznew
Diaz is the "It Kid" in literature today. The author of the 1996 short story collection Drown, he was awarded this year's Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his first novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.
Weekly Alibi |
Erin Adair-Hodges |
09-23-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Pulitzer Prize, Junot Diaz
Unclassifiably Original 17 Hippies Merges East and West in Dance Grooves Galorenew
When you slide Heimlich, the latest CD from 17 Hippies, into the computer, the disc obligingly gives up the expected data: album name, track titles, artist, etc. It's all pretty straightforward until you get to "genre."
What you get isn't even "other"; it's "unclassifiable."
Weekly Alibi |
Mel Minter |
09-23-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: 17 Hippies, Heimlich
Five Shows to Watch Before the New Season Beginsnew
With the new fall TV schedule getting underway, now's the perfect time to play catch-up, renting "Complete First Season" DVDs for shows you might have missed on the first go-around. Here are our top choices to get you prepped for premiere week.
Weekly Alibi |
Devin D. O’Leary |
09-23-2008 |
TV
