AltWeeklies Wire
The Search for the Perfect Punk Pornnew
It’s a subculture that’s jamming an industry that, by some estimates, swallows a full quarter of all web searches every day. So how "alt" is alt-porn?
Fast Forward Weekly |
Mark Teo |
12-27-2011 |
Movies
2011 in Review: Environmentnew
Despite numerous efforts to improve the environment, overall, things just spiraled further out of control as humans were unable to change their consumeristic ways.
NUVO |
Jim Poyser |
12-27-2011 |
Environment
Tags: Kyoto, climate change
Your odds of getting a job at Boeing are 1 in 357new
50,000: The number of people who applied for 140 available positions at Boeing’s new interior fabrication facility, which opened in North Charleston Dec. 1.
Charleston City Paper |
Paul Bowers |
12-27-2011 |
Business & Labor
Tags: Jobs at Boeing
Nikki Haley's Self-Serving and Deceitful First Year in Officenew
Haley became governor on Jan. 12, 2011, nearly a year ago. According to a recent Winthrop University poll, only about 35 percent of South Carolinians approve of the job she is doing. To give her the benefit of the doubt, let's examine her first year in office according to the issues she laid out for voters while campaigning for governor.
Charleston City Paper |
Chris Lamb |
12-26-2011 |
Commentary
Tags: Nikki Haley
Disenfranchised: Homeless Occupiers Back on the Streetnew
Now that Occupy Eugene has been evicted, homeless youth are back on the street.
Eugene Weekly |
Camilla Mortensen |
12-26-2011 |
#OCCUPY
Last-Minute Gift Idea: Build a Homeless Shelternew
Crisis Ministries is $1.2M short of fundraising goal.
Charleston City Paper |
Paul Bowers |
12-23-2011 |
Homelessness
Tags: Homelessness, Crisis Ministries
Censored Scientist Wants to Restore Sound Policy-Making in Texasnew
Two months of sustained outrage from scientists, academics, and newspaper editorial boards may have changed things at the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality — at least when it comes to publishing hard, peer-reviewed science.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
12-23-2011 |
Environment
National report recommends ending use of chimps in biomedical researchnew
"Use of these animals should be permissible only if forgoing their use will prevent or significantly hinder advances necessary to prevent or treat life-threatening or debilitating conditions."
INDY Week |
Maggie Smith |
12-23-2011 |
Policy Issues
Tags: Animal Research
A Big Boy at Christmasnew
He’s practically vibrating in the seat next to me, this kid. Just 9 years old, recently made privy to the Big Christmas Secret, and he’s beside himself on this, his first Christmas mission on the other side.
YES! Weekly |
Brian Clarey |
12-23-2011 |
Commentary
Tags: christmas, santa claus
We Bought a Zoo wins prize for most mediocre, heartwarming family filmnew
Considering that Cameron Crowe has practically grown up along with his films, seeing him pull a hack move and direct the painfully middlebrow We Bought a Zoo isn't that much of a surprise.
How I Learned How to be a Professional Laughernew
In Los Angeles, the humor stakes are so high that live-audience sitcoms are turning to laughter ringers, folks so good at guffawing they're planted the audience and get everyone else cackling at the right moment.
L.A. Weekly |
Joel Warner |
12-23-2011 |
Comedy
Predictions and Apocalyptic Visions for 2012new
Republicans filibuster outgoing President Obama's congratulatory phone call, and more fearless predictions for 2012.
Artvoice |
Artvoice Staff & Readers |
12-23-2011 |
Commentary
Thom Tillis on education cuts, statewide redistricting during town hallnew
Thom Tillis, the NC Speaker of the House, said the new Republican majority in the NC General Assembly had to make some tough decisions during the 2011 legislative sessions, but he felt certain "most of those decisions were the right ones."
YES! Weekly |
Keith T. Barber |
12-23-2011 |
Politics
Tags: Thom tillis
Imminent Descentnew
The thrash-death outfit Imminent Descent, San Antonio's latest attempt to recapture the glory of its mid-'80s metal scene, makes no bones about the oldness of its school.
San Antonio Current |
Gonzalo Pozo |
12-23-2011 |
Reviews
Photog Attempts to Sidestep Gun Advocacynew
"My art world friends really thought this project was misguided on my part," said New York-based photographer Lindsay McCrum. "But I think that if you have a curiosity about something, you should pursue it."
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
12-23-2011 |
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