AltWeeklies Wire
How Did Local Restaurants Stay Open During the Recent D.C. Snowstorm?new
Murat Uzuntepe admits to making a trip to the co-op just down the street to buy produce that he can’t get his hands on now. His suppliers simply can’t navigate the streets. Then he tells us about a woman who walked into his restaurant and wanted to buy eggs and bread.
Washington City Paper |
Tim Carman |
02-25-2010 |
Food+Drink
Loose Lips: Washington, D.C.'s Dwindling Coffers and DCision 2010new
How deep does the pain go? For the current budget year, which ends Sept. 30, Chief Financial Officer Natwar M. Gandhi is already projecting a $200 million-plus deficit... or enough to run the Department of Mental Health.
Washington City Paper |
Mike DeBonis |
02-25-2010 |
Commentary
Josh Bernstein Willingly Walks the Extra Block to Save a Quarternew
“Daddy's thirsty,” I said, as my girlfriend and I emerged from our Brooklyn subway stop. Of late, I’ve referred to myself as daddy, though, much to my mother’s chagrin, we are not expecting children. “Daddy wants a beer.”
New York Press |
Josh Bernstein |
02-25-2010 |
Shopping
Landmark Film is an Answer to the Age of Snarknew
Dealing with Davy Mitchell’s rush to maturity makes Easier With Practice more than a story about a young man obsessed with a phone-sex relationship. Davy’s dilemma captures a classic emotional uncertainty many people know but that most movies avoid. It features a true shock of recognition.
New York Press |
Armond White |
02-25-2010 |
Reviews
People with Eating Disorders Can't Get Adequate Health Insurance Coveragenew
Unlike schizophrenia, depression and other mental illnesses, eating disorders such as bulimia and anorexia are not often covered by health insurance. People are exhausting their life savings for treatment — or dying from a lack of it.
INDY Week |
Rebekah L. Cowell |
02-25-2010 |
Policy Issues
Sweepstakes Cafes: A Rip-Off Coming to Your Low-Income Neighborhoodnew
Since a state law passed last year created the loopholes, sweepstakes cafes have flourished throughout North Carolina. Yet that these businesses are opening is less notable than where they're opening—many of them in low-income and/or minority neighborhoods where people have little to spend and a lot to lose
INDY Week |
Lisa Sorg and Joe Schwartz |
02-25-2010 |
Policy Issues
A Retired UC Davis History Professor Turns Detectivenew
The Codex Cardona is a 16th century account (by native scribes) of what life was like in Mexico before and immediately after the arrival of the Europeans. A retired UC Davis history professor turns detective and attempts to solve the mystery of a missing Mexican treasure.
Sacramento News & Review |
Kel Munger |
02-25-2010 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Journalist T.R. Reid Makes it Plain: Universal Coverage is the Answernew
The take-home lesson, repeated frequently during an hour-long conversation with the Independent, boils down basically to this: Provide universal health care, and the rest will follow.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Anthony Lane |
02-25-2010 |
Science
As the Good Doctor Leaves Focus, His Son Talks About a Second Comingnew
Last year, exiled New Life Church founder Ted Haggard returned to Colorado Springs and later began holding prayer meetings in his home. And last fall, Focus on the Family announced the end of its ties with James Dobson, who founded the conservative Christian group three decades ago.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Bill Forman |
02-25-2010 |
Religion
Facebook as Morality Police? A Scandal Highlights the State of Sex on Campusnew
What about fellow students who look on with disgust at all this saliva swapping, ass grabbing and awkward hump dancing? At St. Michael’s College, one group of them has come up with a pointed retaliation: an anonymous Facebook page called “Spotted Getting-Some.”
Seven Days |
Lea McLellan |
02-25-2010 |
Sex
What We've Learned From the Fatal Police Shooting of Aaron Campbellnew
The Jan. 29 shooting of an unarmed African-American man was the reason Jackson came to Maranatha Church of God. And it’s why hundreds of angry Portlanders had already rallied downtown to protest years of alleged police abuses and failed leadership.
Willamette Week |
James Pitkin |
02-24-2010 |
Crime & Justice
Financial Collapse Plus War Plus Suicide Plus Closeted Men Equals OK Novelnew
Finished in September 2008, the very week that Lehman Brothers declared bankruptcy, Union Atlantic offers a lucid perspective on the manner in which the greed and venality of a privileged few can drive the economy toward and beyond the brink of collapse.
San Antonio Current |
Justin Isenhart |
02-24-2010 |
Fiction
Know Your Dealer: Cause and Effect in Partyvillenew
Like a sommelier’s list of rare vintages, the underground, illegal pharmaceutical buffet beckons users into the local facet of the “Drug War.” But could a dangerous conflict really derive its fuel from a service this enticing and available, and treated with such exclusivity?
San Antonio Current |
Baldemar Villarreal |
02-24-2010 |
Drugs
Muted Melancholy: Tindersticks' 'Falling Down a Mountain'new
After 18 years of releasing elegantly dark mood music, Tindersticks sound happier than ever. The slow-dance Keep You Beautiful is an enchanting love song that comes off as a tender lullaby, and the R&B-flavored Harmony Around My Table shuffles appealingly along.
Tucson Weekly |
Gene Armstrong |
02-24-2010 |
Reviews
Former Jazz Students Strive for Distinctive, Unique Musicnew
It's by design that Midlake's new record weaves its spell from ancient days, conjuring that same sense of elemental, shrouded powers at play that drives fantasy art. The band worked to craft The Courage of Others into an escape, the type of music that suggests it might cast some magic on the listener.
Tucson Weekly |
Eric Swedlund |
02-24-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Courage of Others, Midlake
