AltWeeklies Wire
Birthday Suitnew
Colorado singer-songwriter Wendy Woo strips down to the simple things in life.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Kirsten Akens |
01-23-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Wendy Woo
Chaotic Nature Joe Carnahan Explores the Minds of the Walking Wounded
There’s a strand of “Moby Dick” that runs through director/co-writer Joe Carnahan’s wild and wooly tale of brutal survival in the Alaskan wilderness.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
01-23-2012 |
Reviews
Jail Birdsnew
The fastest-growing group of inmates in Oregon: Women.
Willamette Week |
Hannah Hoffman |
01-23-2012 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: Prisons, Women in Prison
49ers Pissed Away Super Bowl Berthnew
So many times, we've been told that tragedies or deaths "put things in perspective" when it comes to organized sports. Really? Fans need floods and famines and terrorist attacks and senseless mayhem to remind them that there are more important things in life than the outcome of a ballgame? This is necessary?
Checking in With Refugee Citynew
"I think audiences are looking for something that might be a bit atypical."
Boise Weekly |
George Prentice |
01-23-2012 |
Reviews
Tags: Refugee City
Styled in the Streetsnew
With a critically lauded new album, Garland Jeffreys revisits New York City and the sounds that shaped him.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Bill Forman |
01-23-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
The CO2 Trapnew
California scientists develop material that captures carbon dioxide.
East Bay Express |
Susanne Rust |
01-23-2012 |
Environment
What About the Gay Republican Vote?new
Shortly after the Jan. 10 New Hampshire GOP primary, while candidate tour buses and cable TV news trucks were beating a path down I-95 to South Carolina, Jeff Inglis, the managing editor of the Maine alt-weekly Portland Phoenix, left a voicemail at the City Paper office. He wanted to talk about Mike Heath, a major figure in the Ron Paul campaign who he said was known from his decades in the Pine Tree State as a “rabidly vicious anti-gay hatemonger.”
Charleston City Paper |
Paul Bowers |
01-23-2012 |
Elections
Indiana's Environmental Gains, Lossesnew
The Mitch Daniels administration can count a number of conservation gains to its credit. Several judges, however, still must way in on the environmental legacy of I-69.
NUVO |
Rebecca Townsend |
01-21-2012 |
Environment
Coal Train: Coming to Tracks Near Younew
With three proposed coal export terminals, Oregon is facing the prospect of over one mile long open-topped coal trains spewing diesel fumes and coal dust through its towns and into its forests, rivers and lakes. Will Oregon be the gateway for the fossil fuel exports Big Coal is looking for?
Eugene Weekly |
Camilla Mortensen |
01-20-2012 |
Environment
The Press Corps' Burdennew
White reporters report on white candidates at CNN debate.
Charleston City Paper |
Chris Haire |
01-20-2012 |
Elections
Coming of Age at the CNN Debatenew
Disappointed visitors, jaded reporters, and a failed protest at the North Charleston Coliseum.
Charleston City Paper |
Paul Bowers |
01-20-2012 |
Elections
South Carolina Solidifying Reputation as Political Minefieldnew
Despite a calmer-than-normal start, South Carolina is upholding its reputation as the political minefield of the early nominating contests with just two days to go before the critical first-in-the-South GOP primary.
Columbia Free Times |
Corey Hutchins |
01-20-2012 |
Elections
Growing Hungrynew
With more than 1 in 10 on food stamps, demand for assistance looks more insatiable than ever.
Colorado Springs Independent |
J. Adrian Stanley |
01-20-2012 |
Poverty
Tags: Poverty, food stamps
Gatewood: 1947-2012new
The death of eclectic, perennial, pro-pot candidate Gatewood Galbraith leaves a void in Kentucky politics.
LEO Weekly |
Joe Sonka |
01-20-2012 |
Politics
