AltWeeklies Wire
Dodgers Owner Frank McCourt Not Going Awaynew
With the appointment yesterday of a monitor to oversee the Dodgers' day-to-day operations, everyone in baseball seems to think the era of McCourt ownership is drawing to a close. Everyone, that is, except Frank McCourt.
L.A. Weekly |
Gene Maddaus |
04-26-2011 |
Sports
Interview: The Avett Brothersnew
The Avett Brothers mix bluegrass, folk and punk rock to create a unique brand of Americana-roots music.
Gambit |
Peter Wilson |
04-26-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Avett Brothers
The Protest Art of SB 1070new
SB 1070 has been bad for Arizona and worse for Mexicans, but it inspired a year's worth of great art.
Phoenix New Times |
Claire Lawton |
04-26-2011 |
Art
To the Streetsnew
Local services collaborate to help out homeless vets in Tucson.
Tucson Weekly |
Tim Vanderpool |
04-26-2011 |
Homelessness
Tags: Homelessness, Homeless Veterans
Adapting to Climate Changenew
We know climate change is coming. How will we adapt to it? Here's what we'll have to do to live in the new normal.
Sacramento News & Review |
Cosmo Garvin |
04-26-2011 |
Environment
Tags: Climate Change
The Foreclosure Fiasconew
Bank of America is playing a lot of financial tricks in Hawaii and local families are needlessly losing their homes.
Honolulu Weekly |
Lucy Jokiel |
04-26-2011 |
Housing & Development
Medical Marijuana Closer to Legalization in CTnew
Rhode Island and New Jersey aren’t often put in the beacons-of-light category, but Connecticut is right now looking to those two states to help illuminate the tricky pathway toward state-sanctioned growing and sale of medical marijuana.
New Haven Advocate |
Gregory B. Hladky |
04-26-2011 |
Drugs
O, Bobby Jindal, Where Art Thou?new
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal's national ambitions are leaving his constituents in the dust.
Gambit |
Clancy DuBos |
04-26-2011 |
Commentary
Tags: Louisiana, Bobby Jindal
Got a Prom Date? Disney Hopes You Do
What starts out as an all-too-formulaic teen romantic comedy settles into a forgivably recipe-driven think piece on the milestone significance of that unique social gathering known as the prom.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
04-26-2011 |
Reviews
Tags: Joe Nussbaum, PROM
Government in Actionnew
Coming soon in Arizona: longer ER waits, lots of job losses and a whole bunch more sick people.
Tucson Weekly |
Dave Devine |
04-25-2011 |
Policy Issues
John Legend & the Rootsnew
John Legend and The Roots will play at Jazz Fest in New Orleans, Sunday, May 1, at the Congo Square Stage.
Tags: The Roots, John Legend
Days of Wine and Rosienew
Rosie Napravnik is the first woman to win the Fair Grounds' leading jockey title. Now she's headed to the Kentucky Derby
Tags: Kentucky Derby, Rosie Napravnik
Michigan-Style Financial Bill May Still Be in the Works for Wisconsinnew
After "financial martial law" was enacted in Michigan in the midst of the Wisconsin protests over Gov. Scott Walker's anti-union agenda, questions started bubbling as to whether or not similar legislation was in the works for the Badger State.
Tags: Wisconsin, Scott Walker
Thrifty Families and Other Lies
We Americans value thrift and personal responsibility. We believe we should live within our means. These cultural ideals stem from our Puritan history. But we don't live up to our ideals. Not even close.
Maui Time |
Ted Rall |
04-25-2011 |
Policy Issues
Behind the Controversial Anthology of Rapnew
Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. called The Anthology of Rap "an essential contribution to our living literary tradition," while Chuck D said it "might just break the commercial trance that's had rap in a chokehold for the past several years." But it's also the hip-hop tale of AWOL fathers and fractured identities, of bitter duels and fiery smackdowns.
