AltWeeklies Wire
Cheers to an Ally!new
"But this article also speaks in a larger sense to those in the Republican Party who profess not to be homophobic privately but stand by silently and enable their party to be run to appeal to the many homophobic bigots (a redundant term for the dunderheads who direct social policy for the GOP) in the party's base. Enabling bigotry when one is not a bigot is even worse to me."
Jackson Free Press |
JFP Staff |
10-05-2012 |
LGBT
Raising an Armynew
"Half the Sky" is about the severe problems women face around the world. It is chilling, covering routine violence spanning from the sex trafficking and gang rape of toddlers in Cambodia to the routine rape of young women in Sierra Leone.
Jackson Free Press |
Donna Ladd |
10-05-2012 |
Commentary
Justice Deniednew
A tangled bureaucracy has left tribal communities facing an epidemic of violent crime.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Colleen Keane |
10-05-2012 |
Crime & Justice
Retired Lab Chimps Pressed Back Into Servicenew
A San Antonio lab says primate research is necessary for curing diseases like AIDS and hepatits. But what progress has really been made?
Houston Press |
Craig Malisow |
10-05-2012 |
Animal Issues
The United States of Anorexianew
"No wonder we are a nation of eating disorders. If these bodies are 'natural' then, in addition to liposuction, so is anorexia and so is bulimia—all in an attempt to fulfill an impossible ideal."
Jackson Free Press |
Jim Pathfinder Ewing |
10-05-2012 |
Health
I Watched Him Dienew
From my second-story desk window at the Salt Lake City Weekly office, I watched a standoff unfold between police and Anthony Mayhew, who’d threatened to blow himself up in front of our offices.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Eric S. Peterson |
10-05-2012 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: Anthony Mayhew
Struck Outnew
California Proposition 36 would exempt nonviolent offenders from 'three strikes' law's lifetime sentencing.
North Bay Bohemian |
Leilani Clark |
10-04-2012 |
Policy Issues
The Myth Enduresnew
Jack Kerouac is poised to become the all-time iconic American writer.
North Bay Bohemian |
Jonah Raskin |
10-04-2012 |
Books
Mysterious Mummiesnew
A group of enigmatic, somewhat horny ancient ones is descending on the Rialto.
Tucson Weekly |
Gene Armstrong |
10-04-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
More Spores?new
Confirmed valley fever cases are on the rise--and a drug that could help has been delayed
Tucson Weekly |
Robert Rappaport |
10-04-2012 |
Health
Joseph as Brucenew
'Looper' is one of the best time-travel movies ever made.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
10-04-2012 |
Reviews
Dead on Arrivalnew
Tim Burton shows he is in need of reanimation himself with 'Frankenweenie.'
Tucson Weekly |
Colin Boyd |
10-04-2012 |
Reviews
Tags: Frankenweenie
The Helio Sequence: Negotiationsnew
Nobody does shimmering cool quite like the Helio Sequence. [image-1]
With sparse instrumentation—guitars, keyboards and drums—and a sense of all-enveloping reverb, the Oregon duo of Brandon Summers and Benjamin Weikel essentially spins gold from hay...
Tucson Weekly |
Eric Swedlund |
10-04-2012 |
Reviews
Kreayshawn: Somethin 'Bout Kreaynew
Cultural consensus tells us that some artists have little to no value. They're the musical equivalent of junk food—all empty calories and chemical additives. Kreayshawn, in context, belongs to the same brain-dead girl gang as Ke$ha and Dev and Uffie...
Tucson Weekly |
Staff |
10-04-2012 |
Reviews
Tags: Kreayshawn
The Idea of the Savagenew
A UA law professor looks at almost 3,000 years of Western ethnocentrism
Tucson Weekly |
Paul Wine |
10-04-2012 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Robert A. Williams Jr.
