AltWeeklies Wire
One Nation News Earns Rep as a Copy-and-Paste Newsroomnew
Most of the stuff I found on One Nation News' website gives me major flashes of deja vu. In fact, many of the blurbs are nearly identical to A-List items I assigned, wrote, and edited last week. I could include more, but what we're really talking about here is a classic instance of copy, paste, and delete the byline.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Jessica Armbruster |
07-29-2009 |
Media
'The Girl From Monaco': Trial and Erosnew
To say that writer-director Anne Fontaine's film wanders from genre to genre doesn't exalt her (and Benoit Graffin's) screenplay, but their transparent lift of the trio relationship from Simone de Beauvoir's She Came to Stay is an inspired move.
San Antonio Current |
Ashley Lindstrom |
07-29-2009 |
Reviews
'The Hurt Locker' Shows a Slower, but No Less Scary, Side of Warnew
With fierce performances by a largely unknown cast and restrained and effective direction, The Hurt Locker helps complete a picture the nightly news cannot hope to show.
Boise Weekly |
Jeremiah Wierenga |
07-29-2009 |
Reviews
Tasered Boise Man Files Brutality Claimnew
A man who alleges that Boise police shocked him with a Taser multiple times, even after three officers had subdued him, has sued the City of Boise for breaching his Fourth Amendment rights by unreasonable search and seizure and excessive use of force.
Boise Weekly |
Nathaniel Hoffman |
07-29-2009 |
Crime & Justice
Nazi Sympathizer David Irving Speaks, Kicks Us Outnew
When a cult figure of the neo-Nazi movement comes to this town, it is not so hard to track him down. We found him, there was a minor disruption and we got kicked out of the talk. Here's how it went down.
Boise Weekly |
Nathaniel Hoffman |
07-29-2009 |
Media
Cartographers Get By With a Little Help from Their Friendsnew
The lyrics for every Cartographers song, personal or poetic as they sound, begin as "placeholders," Jackson Albracht says, strung together to chain all those chord changes into songs, coherent musically if not always lyrically.
San Antonio Current |
Jeremy Martin |
07-29-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Cartographers, San Antonio
My Experiment With Living Off the Land in Minneapolisnew
Teresa Marrone, who wrote Abundantly Wild: Collecting and Cooking Wild Edibles in the Upper Midwest, had agreed to assist me in my attempt to spend a day living off the land in the Twin Cities. When I first asked her if my conceit was possible, she replied, "Oh gosh, yeah -- but it won't be exactly what you wanted to eat."
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Rachel Hutton |
07-29-2009 |
Food+Drink
HBO's 'Hung' Mines Human Emotion from a Big, Purple Veinnew
Hung questions one of the most basic assumptions of manhood by suggesting that maybe all life's problems aren't solved by having a giant dick.
San Antonio Current |
Jim McFarlin |
07-29-2009 |
TV
California Republicans Don't Really Care if the State Goes Bankruptnew
The Republicans largely carried the day because they had all the power: they could block any budget deal, they refused to raise any taxes, and they don't really care if the state goes bankrupt. In fact, Gov. Schwarzenegger was happy to draw the crisis out as long as necessary -- it helped his poll rating.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Editorial |
07-29-2009 |
Commentary
Rethinking Juvenile Justice in California's East Baynew
Two local programs offer alternatives to the failing system. One of them transforms teenage offenders into attorneys. The other wants to change our notion of justice.
East Bay Express |
Sam Levin |
07-29-2009 |
Crime & Justice
Why is Jack White Playing the Drums for the Dead Weather?new
It's perplexing that in the Dead Weather, White's current project and the most ubiquitously publicized band of 2009, he's playing ... drums? It feels like a novelty for novelty's sake, like Michael Jordan trying baseball.
Tales From Orange County's Taco Trucksnew
The roach coach. Botulism on wheels. Mobile Montezuma's revenge. The humble taco truck, known universally in Latino OC as loncheras, its workers as loncheros, has finally left its mooring as the feedbag for immigrants, construction workers and prescient foodies and become mainstream, even hip.
OC Weekly |
Gustavo Arellano |
07-28-2009 |
Food+Drink
Louis Maistros Weaves a Luring Tale from New Orleans in 'The Sound of Building Coffins'new
To risk stating the obvious, the Big Easy has a long and complicated relationship with water, both its redemptive and destructive qualities. The two go hand-in-hand, to judge from reading the gritty and sometimes surreal second novel from Louis Maistros.
Baltimore City Paper |
Joab Jackson |
07-28-2009 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
The Infuriated Lewis Black is Only Telling the Truth ... Just Ask Himnew
First Lenny Bruce, then George Carlin and now Lewis Black -- America continues to rely on comedians to cut through heaps of steaming bullshit (much of which is spouted from our nation's capital).
Metro Times |
Travis R. Wright |
07-28-2009 |
Performance
Toxic Gases Seep from the Ground in One Baltimore Neighborhoodnew
According to recent federal court documents, the Chemical Metals Industries site continues to pose a cancer risk to long-term residents of nearby homes subjected to "vapor intrusion" of chemical-laden air rising through the soil from contaminated groundwater below.
Baltimore City Paper |
Van Smith |
07-28-2009 |
Environment
