AltWeeklies Wire
Elisabeth Motsinger Looks to Unseat U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx
On Jan. 12, inside the well appointed home of Stephanie Pellet and her husband Rajesh, Elisabeth Motsinger quietly launched her campaign for US Congress.
YES! Weekly |
Keith T. Barber |
02-16-2012 |
Elections
Mrs. Howl: 'Lovie & a Yellow Lamp'new
It’s not difficult to see why Girl in a Coma’s Nina Díaz might take an interest in producing Dallas-to-SA transplants Mrs. Howl.
San Antonio Current |
Adam Villela Coronado |
02-16-2012 |
Reviews
Jeff Mangum Thrills Chapel Hill Crowd
It took some coaxing from the unassuming Jeff Mangum before the murmur of voices was mildly audible, and it wasn’t until nearly the end of his set that his hundreds of new back-up vocalists actually raised their voices to meet him.
YES! Weekly |
Eric Ginsburg |
02-16-2012 |
Reviews
Tags: Jeff Mangum
Paying Respect to the Queen of Soul
She sang at Obama’s inauguration. She sang at King Curtis’s funeral. She even sang at Wrestlemania in its golden years, but after a lengthy wait and serial cancellations, Aretha Franklin finally came back to sing for North Carolina.
YES! Weekly |
Ryan Snyder |
02-16-2012 |
Reviews
Tags: Aretha Franklin
Forsyth revaluation expected to cut into county budget
The Forsyth County budget is expected to take a $11.4 million revenue hit in two years following the scheduled 2014 tax revaluation, which is anticipated to show a 12-percent depreciation in aggregate property values.
YES! Weekly |
Jordan Green |
02-16-2012 |
Politics
Tags: Forsyth county budget
Get to know this guy A$AP
By about 12:10 a.m. early Saturday morning at Greene Street Club, the scene on stage had essentially crumbled. What was at one time a sold-out hip-hop show by one of the brightest up-and-coming rappers out there had become an unidentifiable onstage cluster of iPhone documentarians, dumbfounded security, a few random dudes smoking kush, and the show’s headliner hovering in the mix. Dirty South hip-hop is legendary for shows like this, but that it was Harlemite A$AP Rocky is what makes it all the more curious.
YES! Weekly |
Ryan Snyder |
02-16-2012 |
Reviews
Tags: A$AP
My Sundance 2012 Experience
Every January, I make my annual pilgrimage to Park City, Utah, to work on the Sundance Film Festival. This year marked my 10th time working on the most prestigious film festival in North America. And this year’s crop of films was as impressive as any lineup I’ve seen since my first Sundance way back in 1999.
YES! Weekly |
Keith T. Barber |
02-16-2012 |
Movies
Tags: Sundance festival
Medical Marijuana Ban in L.A.?new
Los Angeles city officials botched regulation, now they want prohibition. A medical marijuana ban is heading to the L.A. City Council.
L.A. Weekly |
Hillel Aron |
02-16-2012 |
Policy Issues
Tags: Medical Marijuana
Greensboro Exploring Options for a Performing Arts Center
Everyone seems to agree the War Memorial Auditorium at the coliseum complex has seen better days, a fact that has become increasingly clear over the past few years as the number of events dropped dramatically and necessary repairs went untouched.
YES! Weekly |
Eric Ginsburg |
02-16-2012 |
Politics
Scientology showdown reveals claims of torture, abuse of dissenting membersnew
Debbie Cook had already spent seven weeks confined in a facility known ominously as “The Hole” inside a small room with barred windows where she says she was forced to sleep on a bug-infested floor and served only bowls of inedible "slop."
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
02-16-2012 |
Religion
Tags: Scientology, Debbie Cook
Downtown Winston-Salem contends with growing pains
City leaders hope to avert a collision between the interests of residents and business owners in downtown Winston-Salem by revising the city’s sidewalk café ordinance as the district’s vitality reaches a new level.
YES! Weekly |
Jordan Green |
02-16-2012 |
Politics
Tags: Downtown Winston-Salem
A Strong Case for Legal Weednew
When Juárez cartel gangster Jose Antonio "El Diego" Acosta Hernandez was arrested last summer he had an estimated 1,500 murders under his belt operating in a city where violent death comes fast and furious.
San Antonio Current |
Greg Harman |
02-16-2012 |
Nonfiction
Bit O' Honeynew
Turns out oil and gas drilling could mean big bucks for local schools and governments.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Pam Zubeck |
02-16-2012 |
Energy
'Six Degrees of Separation': Sometimes the stranger is closer than bloodnew
Inspired in part by a real-life incident in which a young black man charmed his way into the homes of wealthy white New Yorkers by pretending to be the son of a famous actor, John Guare's Six Degrees of Separation explores the strangeness of the people we are related to, and the mysterious recognition that can spark between strangers.
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
02-16-2012 |
Theater
Watching really, really good pingpong at the 2012 U.S. Olympic trialsnew
Slams are said to approach 80 miles an hour. As impressive as these shots can be, even more impressive is how often they're returned. It's hard to do justice to the freakish reflexes that were on display at Bond Park.
Tags: Pingpong
