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Is Omega Protein Overfishing the Most Important Fish in the Sea?new
Omega Protein is the largest commercial harvester of an obscure fish called menhaden (men-hay-den), used mostly for fishmeal and fertilizer. The company's more palatable product is refined fish oil.
Houston Press |
Craig Malisow |
01-26-2010 |
Animal Issues
The Honest Mistakes: 'Break Up'new
These are break-up songs, not particularly sad or mopey by any genre's standards, but the Honest Mistakes are soaking you in a whole lot of this: "Find a picture of your favorite friend, tonight/ take a look at it, as long as you can/ it might be the only thing you have left of them."
Baltimore City Paper |
Michael Byrne |
01-26-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: Break Up, The Honest Mistakes
Supreme Court Ruling Could Influence Connecticut Campaign Lawnew
The new U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning federal bans on corporate political spending is creating a firestorm of protest, and disagreements here in Connecticut about how it might impact legal challenges to this state's landmark public campaign financing program.
New Haven Advocate |
Gregory B. Hladky |
01-26-2010 |
Politics
In Photo Exhibition, the Poor of 1935 Have Much to Say to the Poor of 2010new
When Colleen McDannell first began curating Picturing Faith: Religious America in Government Photography 1935-1943, an exhibition of photographs from the last economic depression, we were not in the current one.
New Haven Advocate |
Mark Oppenheimer |
01-26-2010 |
Art
Do Something: Let's Be There for Samuel Dalembertnew
Samuel Dalembert, the 76ers' center, grew up in Haiti. Dalembert lived in Port-au-Prince, the capital and hardest-hit city, until he was 14. (Several of his family members remain there.) His foundation has been seeking foreign assistance for Haiti since its inception three years ago.
Philadelphia City Paper |
E. James Beale |
01-26-2010 |
Sports
One Small Step For Robots: Drexel Lab Has Big Plans For its Humanoidnew
Jaemi HUBO, a robot, sleeps at the Drexel Autonomous Systems Lab, the headquarters for a five-year, $2.5 million federal grant from the National Science Foundation. Its goal is to make the United States a world leader in humanoid robotics.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Brian James Kirk |
01-26-2010 |
Tech
10 Sex Scenes that Shock and Awenew
Some sex scenes in movies shock us. Others awe us. Here's a list of 10 sex scenes that allegedly do one or the other: First up, Diane Lane doing it doggy-style with a much younger man in Unfaithful.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Leo Dirr |
01-26-2010 |
Commentary
Bars, Lounges and Wine Cellars to Visit During the Sundance Film Festivalnew
There is no shortage in Park City of places to drink and, maybe, bump into a B-list celebrity during the Sundance Film Festival. But if you want to know where A-listers are likely to turn up — or at least where you and your pals can score a good glass of wine or cold beer in a snazzy setting — read on.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Ted Scheffler |
01-26-2010 |
Food+Drink
Looking Back: Mel Gibson Atones, Defeated
Acting in his first film since 2003, Mel Gibson is a bit rusty as retiring Boston homicide detective Thomas Craven in a part corporate-thriller and part old-school revenge fantasy that feels dated from the start.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
01-25-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: Edge of Darkness, Martin Campbell
In a Coup, Texas Museum Acquires 'The Torment of Saint Anthony'new
The Kimbell Art Museum's relatively recent acquisition of Michelangelo's earliest known painting, The Torment of Saint Anthony," was a real art-world coup. North Texas' only museum devoted to world art effectively beat out the Met.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Anthony Mariani |
01-25-2010 |
Art
Snake On a Train: Getting to Know Patricia Highsmithnew
It's no small achievement that playwright-biographer Joan Schenkar is able to find perverse charm and consistent fascination in the messy, globetrotting life of Patricia Highsmith. At almost 700 pages, Schenkar's The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith is a horse pill of a book.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Jimmy Fowler |
01-25-2010 |
Nonfiction
TCU Professor's Memoir: Happy, Poetic, But Slightnew
Titled after his college nickname, Alex Lemon's Happy is another in a slew of memoirs in the vein of Boy Meets Obstacle, Boy Overcomes Obstacle, Boy Finds Redemption. Typically in such books, a self-destructive young man is thrown into exigent circumstances that force him to confront the selfish asshole in the mirror.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Anthony Mariani |
01-25-2010 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Alex Lemon, Happy
The Haiti Memory Hole
No one could have anticipated the soaring brazenness or the cynical linguistic savagery U.S. state-controlled media would deploy while "covering" the invasion of Haiti.
Born Again: The Beloved Sarah Jaffenew
For a few years, the 23-year-old Sarah Jaffe has been charming the pants off area audiences with her lost-in-the-world, building folk yarns, performing the types of shows that would cause lesser scribes to write things like "Jaffe sure took that crowd to church on Friday night!"
Dallas Observer |
Pete Freedman |
01-25-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Encycloweedia is Trying a New Way to Turn Pot into Doughnew
Every two weeks or so, we wander into our publisher's office and flip through copies of our company's sister papers in Denver and California, where medical marijuana is legal. "Wow, they must be raking in the ad dough," we say.
Dallas Observer |
Patrick Williams |
01-25-2010 |
Drugs
