AltWeeklies Wire
Indy's Food Trucks Flourishnew
Indy’s new love affair with mobile meals means food trucks are flourishing — and just in time to prepare to feed the Super Bowl revelers.
NUVO |
David Hoppe |
10-18-2011 |
Food+Drink
The Failed Quest for Objectivitynew
A newspaper is much more than reporting. Even more important are the decisions editors make on what stories to pursue and pick up from national wires (and those not to) and how they're presented.
Arkansas Times |
Lindsey Millar |
10-17-2011 |
Media
Politics-a-Troisnew
The race for Louisiana lieutenant governor is the nastiest around -- and the portal into a steamy three-way fight for the heart of the state GOP.
Tags: Elections, Louisiana GOP
Inside the Food Tent at Occupy DCnew
What are the demonstrators at Occupy DC eating? Pretty much what you'd expect. "We keep it pretty much vegetarian—vegan, if we can."
Washington City Paper |
Chris Shott |
10-17-2011 |
#OCCUPY
Beer Buzznew
Indiana brew expert Rita Kohn rounds up the week in local tapping and brewery news, including the Big Red Beer Fest.
NUVO |
Rita Kohn |
10-17-2011 |
Food+Drink
Tags: beer
Review: ISO Classical Series Program No. 4new
Guest conductor Gilbert Varga and American Pianist Fellow Jonathan Biss join for a well-played Beethoven Concerto.
NUVO |
Tom Aldridge |
10-17-2011 |
Performance
Reading in the Slow Lane at University Press Booksnew
With Slow Reading Dinners, the Berkeley bookstore applies tenets of the slow-food movement to books.
East Bay Express |
Ellen Cushing |
10-17-2011 |
Books
Daniel Maldonado’s textbook zombie flick passable for a first featurenew
If George A. Romero only knew how hard it was for zombie prey to run through dry South Texas monte, he might’ve moved some of his classic horror films away from rural Pennsylvania and into the Lone Star State for a little extra bloodshed. You can’t sprint very fast when you’ve got mesquite thorns caught in your boot.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martinez |
10-17-2011 |
Reviews
A Moral Stance in a Public Placenew
Wall Street occupiers deserve our support.
East Bay Express |
Jay Youngdahl |
10-17-2011 |
#OCCUPY
The Truth About Uncle Rickynew
How a Ugandan balladeer became a fast-growing -- and problematic -- Internet meme.
East Bay Express |
Rachel Swan |
10-17-2011 |
Music
Skateboarders Enter Confusing Legal Territorynew
Skateboarders and skateboarding sympathizers dominated the half-hour citizen participation period at Tuesday night’s Charleston City Council meeting with pleas for a change in the city’s ordinances regarding downtown skating. The impetus was a resolution from the College of Charleston student government that asked for an exception to skating prohibitions within the college campus, but non-students also spoke about uneven treatment by police and a confusing city code that allows skating on certain peninsula streets but not on others.
Charleston City Paper |
Paul Bowers |
10-17-2011 |
Policy Issues
Former CIA Agent Claims the Military Poisoned His Familynew
The ugly side effects surfaced soon after Kevin Shipp transferred in 1999 from CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., to Camp Stanley, the sprawling U.S. Army weapons depot just north of San Antonio. His now ex-wife, Lorena Shipp, suddenly began to suffer near-constant migraines.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
10-17-2011 |
Civil Liberties
Obama can be beaten, but the GOP doesn't have anyone who can do itnew
I'll be the first liberal to admit that I've been extremely displeased with President Barack Obama and his bumbling, stumbling reign over 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
Charleston City Paper |
Chris Haire |
10-17-2011 |
Elections
The Anarchist's Playbooknew
Occupy Boston takes a page from the radical underground.
Boston Phoenix |
Liz Pelly |
10-17-2011 |
#OCCUPY
Tags: #OCCUPY, Occupy Boston
Just Label Itnew
For years, polls have shown that about 90 percent of Americans support the labeling of foods that contain genetically modified organisms. A new coalition of groups thinks we’re at a tipping point on the issue, and is petitioning the FDA for mandatory labels on foods that contain GMOs.
Weekly Alibi |
Ari LeVaux |
10-17-2011 |
Food+Drink
