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A Wasted Opportunity?new

Why isn't anyone talking about using floodwater mud to help rebuild Louisiana's vanishing coastline?

Gambit | Walter Pierce | 06-06-2011 | Environment

Back in Time: J.J. Abrams Celebrates Amateur Filmmaking

Sure to inspire a new generation of youngsters to pick up video cameras and start making their own movies, "Super 8" is an intentionally restrained monster movie that plays the heartstrings of its young characters against a nostalgic brand of filmic suspense.

City Pulse | Cole Smithey | 06-06-2011 | Reviews

Not Your Grandson's Tribune Any Longer?new

The Chicago Tribune is about to roll out changes in the print and online product that will add some gravitas. Staff meetings were scheduled for Monday to explain the changes, which the public could see as soon as mid-June.

Chicago Reader | Michael Miner | 06-06-2011 | Media

Tags: Chicago Tribune

Portland's Iconic Stumptown Coffee is Sold to Investment Firmnew

Stumptown Coffee, the iconic and fiercely independent company that helped define coffee in Portland, has been sold to a New York investment firm.

Willamette Week | Ruth Brown | 06-06-2011 | Business & Labor

Tags: TSG Consumer

The Baroque Folk of Foxtails Brigadenew

How two classically-trained musicians formed a successful pop act.

East Bay Express | Rachel Swan | 06-06-2011 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Foxtails Brigade

'Seed-to-Sale' Surveillancenew

Colorado medical marijuana dispensaries are dealing with bushels of new state regulations.

Boulder Weekly | Jefferson Dodge | 06-06-2011 | Policy Issues

Tags: Medical Marijuana, MMJ, MMED

Baseball's Robin Hoodnew

The number of inner-city black youth who play baseball has declined rapidly, but Jeff Humphrey is helping keep dreams alive in the urban East Bay.

East Bay Express | Paul Gackle | 06-03-2011 | Sports

Tags: Alameda Little League, Albany Little League, Jeff Humphrey

DJ Quik: Trials and Tribulations of a West Coast Legendnew

Like most redemption stories worth telling, this one starts with the lowest point: solitary confinement in the West Valley Penitentiary, where for most of the sweltering summer of 2006 DJ Quik contemplated the cruel arc of his rise and fall.

L.A. Weekly | Jeff Weiss | 06-03-2011 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: DJ Quik

Eating Local: A Challenge or a Snap?new

The New Orleans locavore movement.

Gambit | Alex Woodward | 06-03-2011 | Food+Drink

Why Is Portland Google's Guinea Pig?new

Google has been all over Portland lately. Billboards, stickers, concerts, promos—there are more rainbow "o"s downtown than rainbow flags these days.

Willamette Week | Ruth Brown | 06-03-2011 | Tech

Tags: Google

Society of Petty Journalistsnew

Who watches the watchdogs? Easy: They watch, snarl and bite at each other, ruthlessly. 2,100 pages of internal SPJ emails dating back to January 2011 reveal a fair amount of smack-talk about various media figures, as well as internal politics regarding local board members perceived as not pulling their weight.

San Diego CityBeat | Dave Maass | 06-03-2011 | Media

Roots in the Garden of California’s Bohemianew

Charles Fletcher Lummis, L.A.’s “renaissance man” from the turn of the last century, began building El Alisal in 1897. Later, he liked to throw soirées on Saturday nights there among the sycamores on the Arroyo Seco. That is the memory people will try to recreate at El Alisal and along the arroyo when artists, poets, musicians and dancers celebrate “Charles Lummis Day” on Sunday, June 5.

Random Lengths News | Lionel Rolfe | 06-03-2011 | Commentary