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The Secret World of Day Laborersnew
Day laborers are among the most exploited and vulnerable workers in the American economic system, yet they perform some of the most necessary — and dirty — jobs. Dick Reavis, a veteran journalist, chronicles his experiences working as a 62-year-old day laborer.
Tags: Dick J. Reavis, Catching Out
With its Fourth Album, Story of the Year Stays the Coursenew
Four albums into its career, the St. Louis quintet continues to defy critics – and resist pigeonholing. Exhibit A: The Constant, the band's second LP for Epitaph Records and fourth album overall, which it recorded last summer with producer Elvis Baskette
Riverfront Times |
Annie Zaleski |
02-19-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: The Constant, Story of the Year
Pokey LaFarge Forges His Own Path Through Old-Time Country and Bluesnew
The question isn't how Pokey LaFarge, a 26-year-old, guitar-plucking blues singer — who was born in Benton, Illinois, and is now based in St. Louis — got to Florida. That's easy: Love and Interstates 10 and 75 took him there.
Riverfront Times |
Roy Kasten |
02-19-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: Pokey LaFarge, Riverboat Soul
Will Monsanto's Sweet 'EverMild' Tearless Onion Whet a Discriminating Palate?new
St. Louis-based Monsanto has a plan to make sweet-onion farmers weep. The seed company last week unveiled a tearless onion that it's dubbed the "EverMild," modeled after the famous Vidalia sweet onion from Georgia.
Riverfront Times |
Kristen Hinman |
02-19-2010 |
Food+Drink
Martin Scorsese's Throwback Head Trip is the Good Kind of Insanenew
Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island, a florid art shocker that Paramount welcomed into the world with the strained enthusiasm of a mutant baby's parents, begins with U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) seasick, head in the toilet.
L.A. Weekly |
Nick Pinkerton |
02-19-2010 |
Reviews
L.A. Street Food Fest: Was it Worth All the Waiting?new
Along with several thousand others last weekend, I attended the L.A. Street Food Fest, which featured 30 or so food trucks, oceans of frothing Singha, and a DJ. One's experience of the event depended — like an evening with Kogi — on how much time one was willing to spend waiting in line for a sandwich.
L.A. Weekly |
Jonathan Gold |
02-19-2010 |
Food+Drink
Portrait of an American Family, Stuck, From One Halloween to the Nextnew
October Country follows four generations of the Mosher family from one October 31 to the next, and, in between days of the dead, the spooks linger. Halloween itself is a Mosher obsession, a leveler across generations.
L.A. Weekly |
Karina Longworth |
02-19-2010 |
Reviews
Dreams of Life and Death: Looking Back with Patti Smithnew
Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe were barely 20 when they met, a couple of androgynous hippies newly arrived in New York City to live among the bohos and Beats, the Factory divas and "extravagant bums" swirling around the boroughs, the Bowery and the Chelsea.
L.A. Weekly |
Steve Appleford |
02-19-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
As a Statewide Demonstration Looms, Investments by the UC Regents are Scrutinizednew
The Regents of the University of California recently worried that students and workers might engage in acts of civil disobedience because the governing board had raised tuition by 30 percent while continuing to spend hundreds of millions on such projects as a sports stadium retrofit.
Sacramento News & Review |
Peter Byrne |
02-19-2010 |
Education
With Voter IDs, Republicans Push to Stamp Out a Nonexistent Threatnew
Perhaps nowhere else in the country does the idea of forcing a voter to flash a photo ID at the polls find such a comfortable foothold among Republicans than in the South. Consider it part of an uninterrupted history when it comes to voting rights there.
Columbia Free Times |
Corey Hutchins |
02-19-2010 |
Commentary
Employers Skim $26.2 Million Per Week from Lower-Income Workers Paychecksnew
Ruth Milkman should have moved this statistic from the 53rd page of her study to the front, where it might have been read by local media: Every week, employers in Los Angeles County pilfer $26.2 million from the paychecks of the poorest 17 percent of workers.
L.A. Weekly |
Max Taves |
02-19-2010 |
Business & Labor
'Mass Effect' Sequel is Dark and Intensenew
Mass Effect 2 (Electronic Arts; Xbox 360; rated mature), the second installment in a planned trilogy, takes place two years after Commander Shepard saved civilization from destruction by a horde of machines.
Fast Forward Weekly |
Blaine Kyllo |
02-18-2010 |
Video Games
The Bruichladdich Distillery, an Island Unto its Ownnew
If your image of Scotland is that of loyalty mixed with fierce independence, then it is Bruichladdich distillery that best embodies that image today.
Fast Forward Weekly |
Kevin McLean |
02-18-2010 |
Food+Drink
Will California Continue to Lead the Fight Against Global Warming?new
Despite problems, Arnold Schwarzenegger might still be remembered as the “green governor” who ushered in California’s landmark, sweeping global-warming law, Assembly Bill 32, also known as California’s Global Warming Solutions Act. The governor who built the green economy. But it's crunch time.
Sacramento News & Review |
Cosmo Garvin |
02-18-2010 |
Environment
Tea Time? Who are These People and What Do They Want?new
The Tea Partiers say that they are a bipartisan group with conservative and Libertarian ideals. They want to get back to God and the Constitution. They say they are Republicans and Democrats alike, but we were not able to find any Democrats associated with the Tea Party.
Eugene Weekly |
Camilla Mortensen |
02-18-2010 |
Politics
