AltWeeklies Wire
Mic Checks and Protestnew
Exclusive interview with political activist and revolutionary hip hop artists Immortal Technique.
Eugene Weekly |
Dante Zuñiga-West |
12-09-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Homeless Activism: Occupy Eugene Seeks a Longer Staynew
Organizers of Occupy Eugene say it is the unique way activists and the homeless have come together to create a workable model that makes the camp an experiment that should continue beyond the current Dec. 15 expiration date of the city's permit allowing them to stay in the park.
Eugene Weekly |
Camilla Mortensen |
12-08-2011 |
#OCCUPY
The Greatest Music In The Worldnew
You might ask by what right do I have to proclaim what is the greatest music in the world and what isn’t. Who the hell am I? Well, you can judge by what I say, but when it comes right down to it, your opinion has as much validity as mine.
Random Lengths News |
Lionel Rolfe |
12-08-2011 |
Commentary
Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board Yanks Offensive Rape Adsnew
By now, you’ve probably seen the controversial Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board ads. You know, the ones that feature photos of what appear to be a young girl’s legs splayed on a tiled bathroom floor with underwear around her ankles. The ads send the message that women are not only at fault for getting themselves raped—a societal bias reflected in and re-enforced by too many court decisions—it’s your fault if your friend gets raped, too.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Tara Murtha |
12-08-2011 |
The War on Women
In Take Shelter, Michael Shannon Defines Slow-burn Agonynew
Set in a rural Ohio of backyard rubbish piles and church suppers, Take Shelter is a skin-crawling heartland thriller in which visions of disaster haunt family man Curtis (Michael Shannon).
Charleston City Paper |
Felicia Feaster |
12-08-2011 |
Reviews
Delusion and Denial Don't Make Sound Opinionnew
America's greatest economic divide remains the gulf between the wealth of black families and white families. Between 1983 and 2007, that racial wealth gap more than quadrupled, according to a recent study from Brandeis University. At the bottom of the economic pyramid, at least 25 percent of black families in 2007 possessed no financial assets whatsoever to see themselves through the economic storm. And that storm struck in 2008.
Charleston City Paper |
Will Moredock |
12-08-2011 |
Commentary
Tags: economic divide, racial wealth gap
Government's Power to Arrest Citizens Without Due process a New Lownew
Since 9/11, Sen. Lindsey Graham has said repeatedly that we must fight the terrorists "over there" so we don't have to fight them "over here." But last week, Graham threw this all out the window. We are now at war everywhere. Forever.
Charleston City Paper |
Jack Hunter |
12-08-2011 |
Commentary
Indy Gets 46 Murals for Super Bowl XLVInew
Super Bowl murals have resuscitated Indy's public arts, given artists meaningful work and promised to make art a nationally recognized part of the city.
Star Employees Protest Newsroom Guttingnew
After layoffs, furloughs, a 10 percent salary cut and a proposal to outsource page design and copy editing jobs to Kentucky, 'Star' workers say enough is enough.
NUVO |
Rebecca Townsend |
12-08-2011 |
Business & Labor
Donatello's: Thick, Soggy, Overdonenew
The food seemed a bit of an afterthought at Donatello's, a new Carmel Italian restaurant that fails to pay even lip service to modern Italian gastronomy.
NUVO |
Neil Charles |
12-08-2011 |
Food+Drink
To the End of Hawaii with George Clooney in The Descendantsnew
Director Alexander Payne—who has married and divorced since Paul Giamatti sipped wine in his last film, Sideways—now presents a character who enjoys redemption only once his wife is brain-dead and on a ventilator.
Reliance on High-tech and High-turnover Leading to Lawsuits in ‘Hospitalist’-heavy San Antonionew
Olga De La Zerda went into Metropolitan Methodist Hospital on February 16 to determine if a bit of congestion was a sign of a more serious infection. It should have been a simple day of observation in the hospital, her family alleges, but care for the 87-year-old was transferred over to a “hospitalist” doctor tasked with managing many more patients.
San Antonio Current |
Robert Crowe |
12-08-2011 |
Health
The QueQue: SA Sex Trafficking Exposed and Morenew
Most of the young girls told similar stories: each started young, somewhere around 13-years-old, sold into sex slavery on San Antonio’s streets, often kept in line with violence, fear, and drug addiction.
San Antonio Current |
SA Current News Team |
12-08-2011 |
Commentary
The Apoca-Listnew
AKA The "We're Fucked" Index
San Antonio Current |
Greg Harman |
12-08-2011 |
Commentary
Contempt, Desire Boil Over in Weller’s ‘Fifty Words’new
Why do couples stay married? Love? Devotion? Obligation to children? Or are they held together by habit reinforced by the fear of being alone?
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
12-08-2011 |
Performance
