AltWeeklies Wire
Party Crashernew
A Clay County Republican running for Congress accuses fellow GOPers of bribing him to drop out of the race.
Folio Weekly |
Susan Cooper Eastman |
03-21-2012 |
Elections
Tower of Babble Powernew
When it comes to sound poetry, Jaap Blonk always has the final word.
Folio Weekly |
Dan Brown |
03-21-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Experimental, Jaap Blonk
Lowering the Boomnew
Houston's Dekaney High, whose motto is "Whatever It Takes," is a bombing or shooting waiting to happen.
Houston Press |
Steve Jansen |
03-21-2012 |
Education
What Lies Beneathnew
The environmental horror of Florida's Rodman Dam and a lesson in rivers: past, present and future.
Folio Weekly |
Anne Schindler |
03-21-2012 |
Environment
Tags: Ocklawaha River, Rodman Dam
Diggy makes Unexpected Arrival in Greensboro
I can hear the screams — high-pitched, sustained, the kind that pierce right through the eardrums and go straight to the brain — from outside the gymnasium of Kiser Middle School, and the kid’s not even inside the building yet.
YES! Weekly |
Brian Clarey |
03-21-2012 |
Commentary
Tags: diggy simmons, Kiser Middle School
The Nonprofit 1 Percentnew
Even the do-gooders can seem blind to their own excess.
The Village Voice |
Steven Thrasher |
03-21-2012 |
Features
A Newsman's Secretnew
The woman with Oregonian editor Bob Caldwell on the day he died works as an internet call girl.
Willamette Week |
Corey Pein |
03-21-2012 |
Media
Life in Prison for Hempnew
José Peña brought some roadside weeds home from Kansas. Cops decided it was reefer, and a Texas court sentenced him to life in prison – without the evidence. It took a decade for Peña to get back some of the pieces of his life.
Austin Chronicle |
Jordan Smith |
03-21-2012 |
Drugs
Louisiana's Medicaid Billing Snafunew
Clinics are having problems with Louisiana's newly privatized Medicaid billing for some health services.
Getting a Gripnew
Last year, Cory Richards became the first American to top an 8,000-meter peak in winter. This spring, he's attempting the summit of Mount Everest on a route an American team completed in 1963 that has not since been repeated.
Boulder Weekly |
Elizabeth Miller |
03-21-2012 |
Recreation
Famished: The Hunger Games is Only an Amuse Bouche
However true to Suzanne Collins's popular young adult source material novel, Gary Ross's filmic adaptation of "The Hunger Games" is a dystopian thriller that falls flat — really flat.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
03-20-2012 |
Reviews
A Necessary Evilnew
Ari Picker takes the folk-pop and chamber music of Lost in the Trees on tour to promote a new album.
Tucson Weekly |
Gene Armstrong |
03-20-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: lost in the trees
Battle Royale: It’s Gettin’ Real in the Jakarta Housing Block
Writer/director Gareth Evans's brazenly over-the-top martial arts extravaganza sets a new waterline for what audiences can expect from a genre that never gets old.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
03-19-2012 |
Reviews
'Stand Your Ground'new
It's been three weeks since a Sanford, Fla. vigilante, George Zimmerman, shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin to death, apparently for looking suspicious – and, according to Zimmerman's own words, for being black and wearing a hoodie. What's taking so long for police to arrest Zimmerman?
Orlando Weekly |
Erin Sullivan |
03-19-2012 |
Crime & Justice
15 Awesome SXSW Interactive Panels Every Journalist Should Listen Tonew
If you're willing to spend the next few weeks listening, you can get almost as much out of Austin as the muckety-mucks who actually attend.
Boston Phoenix |
Carly Carioli |
03-19-2012 |
Media
