AltWeeklies Wire
There's a Water War on the Colorado-Wyoming Bordernew
Along the Green River in Wyoming, cities and towns are massing to fight a proposal that would pump up to 250,000 acre-feet of water per year from their river to thirsty cities and towns in Colorado. The focus of the uproar is a relatively unknown Fort Collins entrepreneur named Aaron Million, who came up with the plan to bring the much-needed water to Colorado.
Westword |
Joel Warner |
11-30-2009 |
Environment
Do Government Subsidies for Film Production Create a 'Race to the Bottom'?new
Especially now, when so many traditional jobs have been lost, "everybody wants to be Hollywood east," Cornell University professor Susan Christopherson says. It's "sexy meets desperation." More than 40 states are actively vying for movie production business, upping the ante on subsidies in what she calls a "race to the bottom."
Chicago Reader |
Deanna Isaacs |
11-30-2009 |
Movies
'Ninja Assassin' is a Hard-R Blood-Fest with Much CG and Many Severed Limbsnew
Having braved zombies in 28 Days Later, Naomie Harris now faces a centuries-old clan of ninjas who have been hiring themselves out, Blackwater-style, as government mercenaries. Sad to say, the undead were more fun.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
11-30-2009 |
Reviews
Tags: Ninja Assassin, James McTeigue
'Frog' of the South: Disney's Song and Dance About a Black Princess Croaksnew
Six decades after unleashing persistent NAACP bugaboo Song of the South, and two after firmly suppressing it, that peculiar cultural institution known as the Walt Disney Company has made a symbolic reparation by creating its first African-American princess -- and plunking her down in the middle of Jim Crow–era Louisiana!
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
11-30-2009 |
Reviews
Colton Harris-Moore is the Northwest's Answer to Frank Abagnale Jr.new
At age 16, Harris-Moore was already a prolific, if sloppy, burglar. Facing a felony charge in 2006, he absconded and disappeared into the island's forested wilds. After seven months he was caught, only to escape and disappear again. In the year since his escape, he has officially been named as a suspect in two separate incidents in which the perpetrator stole and then took a joyride in a single-engine airplane, and is rumored to be the culprit in a third.
Seattle Weekly |
Vernal Coleman |
11-30-2009 |
Crime & Justice
Recession Diaries: Tales of Philly's Young, Educated and Underemployednew
While the less educated are getting hit the hardest, things are quickly deteriorating for the college-educated work force. Experts say that one in five college graduates say they're overqualified for their current jobs.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Daniel Denvir |
11-30-2009 |
Economy
Inside Chicago's Charcuterie Undergroundnew
The charcuterie resistance is growing. Professional restaurant chefs without legal licensing or dedicated facilities cure their own meats out of view of the health inspectors all the time.
Chicago Reader |
Mike Sula |
11-30-2009 |
Food+Drink
No Subject is Sacred for Vic Chesnutt, Including JFK's Sexploitsnew
All great artists are misunderstood in one way or another. When Vic Chesnutt is considered at all, it's often as a tragic figure whose past missteps continue to haunt him. But throughout his work a salty sense of humor can be found alongside much tenderness, rage, and self-doubt.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian J. Barr |
11-30-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Viggo Mortensen Helps Bring Cormac McCarthy's Post-Apocalyptic Book to Lifenew
Faithful to the novel that inspired it, the post-apocalyptic film is bleak but hauntingly beautiful, anchored by Mortensen's best performance to date.
Santa Barbara Independent |
Roger Durling |
11-30-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
L.A.'s Medical-Weed Warsnew
Today Los Angeles stands as the nation's pot capital, a mecca for buying and selling the drug under the guise of the medicinal use initiative California voters approved 13 years ago. The conditions are testament to a breakdown in basic governance unseen in any other major California city.
L.A. Weekly |
Patrick Range McDonald and Christine Pelisek |
11-30-2009 |
Drugs
Does 'Mother Jones' Know Best?new
Foundation funding and collaboration, touted as the way forward for news, have their own pitfalls.
Chicago Reader |
Michael Miner |
11-30-2009 |
Media
Cartoon: Tax Summitnew
Obama wants the jobless to wait for his "jobs forum" to work. Why shouldn't he wait too?
Cartoon: More is Lessnew
Obama is sending 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan. You know, to get out quicker.
Revisiting W. Eugene Smith's Obsessive Archives from a Swinging Placenew
In the late '50s, world-famous (and drug-addicted) photographer W. Eugene Smith retreats to a Manhattan building at the artsy intersection of high-life and low-life, a building of artists' and musicians' lofts. Over eight years he shoots something like 1,500 rolls of film and records 1,700 reels of tape. A fascinating sampling of photos and tape transcripts is now available.
Metro Times |
W. Kim Heron |
11-25-2009 |
Books
