AltWeeklies Wire
Five Reasons Your Barista Hates Younew
Your baristas are a delicate breed of human -- they are perfectionists when it comes to their craft and sensitive when it comes to social aptitude.
Westword |
Thorin Klosowski |
08-23-2010 |
Food+Drink
Tags: Starbucks
The Geek Curenew
Portland has the perfect opportunity to lead open-source computing and transform American health care. Will it work?
Willamette Week |
Aaron Mesh |
08-23-2010 |
Science
Tags: Health Care, Deborah Bryant
The Docu-Horror Picture Show: The Last Exorcism
'The Last Exorcism'can’t find the primal terror in the fake-documentary format.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
08-23-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: Daniel Stamm, The Last Exorcism
Meg Whitman and Jerry Brownnew
Who are they and what do they stand for? Profiling the two candidates for governor of California.
Sacramento News & Review |
Sasha Abramsky |
08-23-2010 |
Politics
Tags: Jerry Brown, Meg Whitman
School Is Murdernew
So how does a reviewer who was a public-school teacher review a book by a novelist who was a public-school principal, and whose work is touted by other public-school folks she knows? Carefully? With correct grammar?...
Tucson Weekly |
Christine Wald-Hopkins |
08-23-2010 |
Unclassified
Tags: Gerry Hernbrode
Adrian Santiago Hits the Marketnew
A DVD release gives an unexpected boost to a first-time Texas filmmaker.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Kristian Lin |
08-20-2010 |
Reviews
Texas Shale Keeps Bubblingnew
The latest study of gas drilling's effects on air quality has convinced almost no one.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Peter Gorman |
08-20-2010 |
Environment
Downwinders on the Risenew
They financed it with baked goods and garage sales, but a North Texas environmental group has pursued its clean-air crusade for more than 20 years -- and won some major victories.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Eric Griffey |
08-20-2010 |
Environment
Tags: Jim Schermbeck
The Bali/Julia Project: Eat, Pray, Lovenew
The best-selling memoir becomes a pretty travelogue and not much else.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Kristian Lin |
08-20-2010 |
Reviews
Recession? Not in the World of Campaign Fundraisingnew
To read campaign finance reports detailing the millions being raised in the Vermont gubernatorial contest, you'd think the recession was a figment of your imagination.
Seven Days |
Shay Totten |
08-20-2010 |
Politics
Tags: Brian Dubie, Peter Shumlin
Do Not Come to Downtown Eugene, Do Not Expect Rightsnew
For the past two years and change, downtown Eugene has been boxed in by an imaginary but supposedly legal zone of exclusion. This zone has been dubbed — in somewhat Orwellian fashion — the Downtown Public Safety Zone.
Eugene Weekly |
Rick Levin |
08-20-2010 |
Civil Liberties
Tags: DPSZ
Veganize Menew
Is it possible to be a vegan in New Orleans? One man goes down the rabbit food hole for a month in the Big Greasy.
Gambit |
Alex Woodward |
08-20-2010 |
Food+Drink
Tags: Veganism
Nikki Haley's sister is a new age 'visionary'new
Simran is a highly successful "visionary" and "life coach," as well as a magazine publisher and talk show host. She also has some very unconventional beliefs.
Charleston City Paper |
Chris Haire |
08-20-2010 |
Commentary
'Hawk': The Best Sort of Throwbacknew
Former Belle & Sebastianite Isobel Campbell and her collaborator, Mark Lanegan, channel the smoldering boy/girl duos of the cool 1960s.
North Coast Journal |
Mark Shikuma |
08-19-2010 |
Reviews
Dealing with racismnew
Andisheh Nouraee explains why he thinks Nathan Deal's jumping on the "birther" bandwagon is racist
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Andisheh Nouraee |
08-19-2010 |
Policy Issues
