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How Escapees From Nazi Germany Transformed So Cal’s Music Culturenew
Imagine Igor Stravinsky’s ballet “Agon” never being staged, or Franz Waxman’s “Sunset Boulevard” and “A Place in the Sun” film scores never winning Oscars, because they’d never been written — because their creators were denied the right to exist.
Pasadena Weekly |
Bliss |
02-22-2010 |
Nonfiction
Activist Cindy Sheehan Speaks About Her Ongoing War on Warnew
There are still a few emboldened people who will do whatever is necessary — including getting arrested countless times — to stop the seemingly pointless loss of innocent lives. Cindy Sheehan is among those on the front lines — waging war against war.
Pasadena Weekly |
Michael Sullivan |
02-22-2010 |
War
The Insurance Company Didn't Give a Damn, and the Jury Gave $37 Millionnew
Time Insurance is about to discover just how badly it has miscalculated: about the routine business of taking away people's health insurance, about a Boulder jury, about its own by-the-numbers defense — and, most of all, about Jennifer Latham.
The Stripper Mobile Rolled Into Miami Super Bowl Weekend, and No One Noticednew
They are dancers, not strippers, the girls tell you. Girls who are done adjusting bra straps inside the Super 8 motel and are now trotting in their high, heavy heels to a ridiculous contraption on wheels, the Stripper Mobile.
Miami New Times |
Natalie O'Neill |
02-22-2010 |
Sex
Texas Board of Education's Cultural Warriors in Troublenew
Could it really be that the young Earthers, the intelligent designers and assorted Christian right-wing whackjobs who have made the Texas State Board of Education such a reliable source of amusement could be facing... extinction?
Dallas Observer |
Patrick Williams |
02-22-2010 |
Education
Too Much of a Bad Thing: The Internet Lures Kids into Porn Addictionnew
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, viewed as the bible among shrinks, doesn't recognize pornography addiction as an official disorder, although scientists in recent years have become more vocal about the notion.
Dallas Observer |
Paul Knight |
02-22-2010 |
Tech
James McMurty's Quixotic Questnew
Never-quite-was is more like it, as James McMurtry, the son of famed novelist and screenwriter Larry (Lonesome Dove) McMurtry, has yet to live up to the "next big thing" status bestowed on him when he burst out of the gates with his debut.
Seattle Weekly |
Mike Seely |
02-22-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
The Winter Olympics Have Meant Big Business for Granite Curling Clubnew
Curling had a coming-out party during the 2006 Olympics in Turin, surprising everyone by besting more traditional winter sports like figure skating and hockey in the television ratings. Soon, curious Seattleites began to trickle into the club, eager to try their hand.
Seattle Weekly |
Vernal Coleman |
02-22-2010 |
Sports
Is State Rep. Matt Shea the Craziest Right-Wingnut in Washington?new
Washington State Rep. Matt Shea is very busy down in Olympia. That's probably why he's been unable to discuss with us why he thinks Obama is Hitler, if not merely Stalin, or explain his belief in the planned takeover of America by a secret Obama army.
Seattle Weekly |
Rick Anderson |
02-22-2010 |
Commentary
'Celine: Through the Eyes of the World' is an Insult on Many Levels
Presented as a "performance" rather than a documentary of her 2008-2009 "Taking Chances" world tour, Celine: Through the Eyes of the World is an insult to your intelligence on many levels.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
02-22-2010 |
Reviews
Say It's So, Tiger Woods!
Let's assume that all the accusations of serial philandering are true. That no waitress was safe from Tiger Woods' charms. What right do we, the public, have to be upset? Woods never presented himself as a pillar of moral virtue. He marketed himself as a great golfer. His job was to knock balls into holes—which he did. He didn't cheat at golf.
Chef David Chang of Momofuku Muses on Eating Everythingnew
From pork-heavy menus to rock-heavy soundtracks, from spare plywood interiors to "no VIP" online reservations, New York chef and restaurateur David Chang has developed a reputation as a nonconformist. He also has a tendency to drop F-bombs in conversation.
INDY Week |
Jane Hobson Snyder |
02-19-2010 |
Food+Drink
CHAT Festival Ponders the Mix of Arts, Technologies and Humanitiesnew
With the advent of multiplatform, multigenre phenomena like the blockbuster film Avatar, the long-perceived boundaries between technology, arts and science are starting to crumble.
Tags: CHAT Festival, technology
Rush Radio: Truth is False and Logic Lostnew
If you're a card-carrying liberal, you may rightly be asking yourself: Isn't there enough conservative radio in the area already? Why isn't there equal counterprogramming of progressive talk across the radio band? And does it even matter that there isn't?
An Interview with Larry Flynt About Free Speechnew
Larry Flynt spoke as part of a two-day symposium on the First Amendment sponsored by the First Amendment Law Review of the UNC School of Law. The Indy caught up with Flynt by telephone last week.
