AltWeeklies Wire
Emily's Post: Every Time WMC Rears its Head, a Lobbyist Gets His Paychecknew
Why are we still listening to anything Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce has to say? The right-leaning business lobbying group spent a lot of money to thoroughly destroy any credibility it may have had by helping to elect two under-qualified and deeply compromised justices to the state Supreme Court.
Isthmus |
Emily Mills |
01-11-2010 |
Commentary
Sexist Beatdown: The Soft Boner of Classic American Literaturenew
Why don’t we sit around praising the “unwieldy, impossible machines” (or, you know, penises) of white, heterosexual guys who are still writing masturbatory prose about lesbian threesomes involving strap-ons, after all these years?
Chicago Reader |
Amanda Hess |
01-11-2010 |
Commentary
What a Long, Strange — But Incredibly Fruitful — Trip It's Beennew
There’s a now-old adage that goes, “If you can remember the ’60s, you weren’t really there.” Activist, author and former politician Tom Hayden was there — helping shape those historic times.
Pasadena Weekly |
Carl Kozlowski and Kevin Uhrich |
01-11-2010 |
Nonfiction
Focus, Accountability and Commitment are Critical to Fulfilling New Year’s Resolutionsnew
It’s a new year, bright with the promise of new beginnings. If you’re like most, you’re so busy with day-to-day life that you push aside the little nagging voice inside telling you that your life could be better. You vow “I’ll quit smoking, hit the gym, eat a healthier diet.”
Pasadena Weekly |
Patti Carmalt-Vener |
01-11-2010 |
Advice
Anti-Olympic Paintings Appear at Site of Removed Beatty Street Muralsnew
Stenciled paintings criticizing the 2010 Winter Olympics have appeared on a concrete wall on Beatty Street where a series of murals once existed. The new paintings consist of the Olympic rings surrounded by text reading, “With glowing hearts we kill the arts”.
The Georgia Straight |
Travis Lupick |
01-11-2010 |
Sports
Alicia Keys Speaks to the Soul on 'The Element of Freedom'new
There are singers for whom song is one thing and one thing only: a church. Alicia Keys is that kind of artist, and for those of us who still look to records for uplift, for comfort, for a soundtrack to our joy and sorrow and fumbling growth, for a way to make sense of the human experience — Alicia is our girl.
The Georgia Straight |
Tara Henley |
01-11-2010 |
Reviews
Colorful Plastic's Answer to 'World of Warcraft' Is the Brainchild of NetDevilnew
Spencer and Braxton Jones have to get off this spaceship. It's teetering on the brink of a black hole. The only way out is via the ship's escape rockets, but there's a catch: The rockets' components are scattered all about the spaceship, in the form of little plastic blocks.
Westword |
Joel Warner |
01-11-2010 |
Video Games
Chinese Drywall Has Screwed Thousands of South Florida Homeownersnew
"Some people indeed say that the drywall Knauf Tianjin produces is toxic," Liao says cautiously in soft Mandarin. "Everyone in the company has heard about it." In fact, this bustling factory is the epicenter of a global consumer disaster that reaches all the way to South Florida.
Miami New Times |
Tim Elfrink |
01-11-2010 |
Housing & Development
With a Bible, Denzel Washington Walks Through the Valley of Death
Falling on the heels of The Road, The Book of Eli is a similarly themed vision of a post-apocalyptic dystopia where cannibals and criminals make up what's left of the human species.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
01-11-2010 |
Reviews
Extremist Republicans are Crushing Dissent Within Their Own Partynew
Extremist Republicans are crushing dissent within their own party, creating a California state legislature that can’t work. That's not won't work; that's can't work. This ideological extremism is evident in the party, from the national stage to local boards.
Sacramento News & Review |
Sasha Abramsky |
01-11-2010 |
Politics
Todd Smith's Shady Venturenew
If you asked Todd Smith seven or eight years ago what he'd be doing by 2010, the words "online sunglasses entrepreneur" probably would never have come out of his mouth. But after losing his job at Merrill Lynch, he decided to turn his fashionable hobby into a new online business venture.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Charlie Deitch |
01-11-2010 |
Fashion
Tags: stunners, Sunglasses, San Francisco, California, business, web, Bay Area, Pittsburgh, fashion, online
Death Pool Predictions: Which Musicians Will Die in 2010?new
2008 didn't see the admission of anyone from last year's death pool into the Great Afterparty, but 2009 was a moderate success — if you include holdover picks from earlier Death Pools. Sure enough: Michael Jackson and Les Paul both made it past the velvet rope this past year.
Dallas Observer |
Jesse Hughey |
01-11-2010 |
Music
'Strongman': Like 'The Wrestler,' Only Realnew
Ten years in the making, Strongman both anticipates and follows The Wrestler: Stanley Pleskun is no longer young, keeps hoping for his luck to change, and ekes out a living as a scrap-metal dealer. (He inks the design on his costume with a Sharpie.)
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
01-11-2010 |
Reviews
'Leap Year': Amy Adams Deserves Betternew
Leap Year belongs to the Prada-backlash subgenre of women's pictures—epitomized by The Proposal — in which smart, stylish women must be muddied, abased, ridiculed, and degraded to get their man.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
01-11-2010 |
Reviews
'Died Young, Stayed Pretty': Grunge Artifacts, Suitable for Framingnew
Several local artists are featured in Eileen Yaghoobian's fan-ish documentary about rock-poster designers. In her film, she lets the artists speak for themselves — which is both a good and a bad thing.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
01-11-2010 |
Reviews
