AltWeeklies Wire
Spurs Still Searching for a Working Road-Trip Recipenew
The San Antonio Spurs began the new year on the hardwood feeling Minnesota. Along the way to suffering a 96-106 defeat at the hands of Ricky Rubio and the Timberwolves, the Spurs lost starting shooting guard Manu Ginobili for six weeks to a fractured fifth metacarpal in his left hand.
San Antonio Current |
Manuel Solis |
01-11-2012 |
Sports
Hastily Made Funny Mannew
What's it like making the online world laugh? It's funny you ask.
Cleveland Scene |
Vince Grzegorek |
01-11-2012 |
Comedy
Tags: Mike Polk
Rainbow's Endnew
The effort to end discrimination against gays in Jacksonville is muzzled by a conspiracy of silence
Folio Weekly |
Susan Cooper Eastman |
01-11-2012 |
LGBT
The Meaning of Dr. King Daynew
It's worth your while to take a few moments to reflect on the legacy of this remarkable man who endured such suffering... We owe him immensely.
NUVO |
Steve Hammer |
01-11-2012 |
Commentary
Tags: Martin Luther King Day
Dirty Little Secretsnew
The hidden reality of child sexual abuse.
LEO Weekly |
George Halitzka |
01-11-2012 |
Children & Families
Tags: Child abuse, sexual abuse
Oakland Tribune Afraid of Losing Subscribers to Occupy Oakland Tribunenew
According to writers at the newly established activist paper, the Occupy Oakland Tribune, the other Tribune is demanding the smaller news outlet disable its content and stop using the word "Tribune" in its name, saying it "tarnishes and diminishes the value" of the city's flagship paper.
Carnage is Roman Polanski’s real-time brawl between flawed parentsnew
Roman Polanski's film is the real-time encounter between two sets of parents — the bordering-on-mediocrity Penelope (Jodie Foster) and Michael (John C. Reilly) Longstreet and the obviously wealthier Nancy (Kate Winslet) and Alan (Christoph Waltz) Cowan — following a scuffle between their sons.
Charleston City Paper |
Susan Cohen |
01-11-2012 |
Reviews
Tags: Roman Polanski, Carnage (2011)
Meryl Streep’s Iron Lady is fiction laced with truthnew
British director Phyllida Lloyd, who worked with Streep on Mamma Mia!, takes an interesting, occasionally misguided track in their new collaboration, documenting Thatcher's life in reverse.
Charleston City Paper |
Felicia Feaster |
01-11-2012 |
Reviews
Tags: Meryl Streep, The Iron Lady
Mitch Daniels, protestors won't go quietlynew
Both sides dig in for the next few weeks. Mitch Daniels insists right-to-work is best; howling workers say otherwise.
NUVO |
John Krull |
01-11-2012 |
Business & Labor
Jon Huntsman wants to flatten taxes and break up big banksnew
Jon Huntsman's Unique Ideas: Breaking up too-big-to-fail banks and making the derivatives market more transparent to prevent a repeat of the Great Recession. Lowering the income and corporate tax rates. Establishing congressional term limits.
Charleston City Paper |
Jon Huntsman |
01-11-2012 |
Policy Issues
I fear those who fear Iran more than I fear Iran itselfnew
Everyone from U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta to the 2012 GOP presidential candidates now seems to be preparing for war with Iran. Iran, we are told, might be, could be, may be thinking about developing nuclear weapons. Iranian leaders say they are not. Our leaders say they are lying. The number of shady characters on both sides guarantees that someone is lying.
Charleston City Paper |
Jack Hunter |
01-11-2012 |
War
Tags: Iran
Rick Perry proposes to make Washington inconsequentialnew
Rick Perry's Unique Ideas: Eliminating earmarks. Making Congress a part-time job.
Charleston City Paper |
Rick Perry |
01-11-2012 |
Elections
Morals and economy are linked according to Rick Santorumnew
Rick Santorum's Unique Ideas: Telling Iran to open its nuclear weapon facilities for inspection, under the threat of bombing. Rejecting climate change science.
Charleston City Paper |
Rick Santorum |
01-11-2012 |
Elections
Ron Paul's Government Guillotinenew
Ron Paul's Unique Ideas: Adopting a non-interventionist foreign policy. Making massive cuts in federal government, including the elimination of the Department of Education. Eliminating the income, capital gains, and death taxes.
Charleston City Paper |
Jack Hunter |
01-11-2012 |
Elections
The Iron Lady is Weaknew
"Is there anything you're crap at, Meryl?"
Boise Weekly |
George Prentice |
01-11-2012 |
Reviews
Tags: Margaret Thatcher, The Iron Lady
