AltWeeklies Wire
Sweet potato pie: better than pumpkinnew
In Vardaman, Miss., you had to wear heels to compete for the title of Sweet Potato Queen. April McGreger, aka the Farmer's Daughter, wobbled in such shoes: "I knew very early I wouldn't be a Sweet Potato Queen."
INDY Week |
Emily Wallace |
12-05-2012 |
Food+Drink
Richard Aoki: Informant Turned Radical?new
Documents, interviews, and public statements raise questions as to whether the ex-Black Panther pulled back from the FBI when he became a militant activist.
East Bay Express |
Momo Chang |
12-05-2012 |
History
'Ebenazio' is Jump-Start's comical gift of the seasonnew
Three things that no sane adult would want to go near throughout this season of institutionalized jollity: a shopping mall, a bowl game, and A Christmas Carol. "Bah, tonterías," says Ebenezer Scrooge in a Spanish translation of his derisive dismissal of Yuletide sentimentality.
San Antonio Current |
Steven G. Kellman |
12-05-2012 |
Theater
Roxtar: A free new musician-friendly social networknew
Remember the Hair Club for Men? In commercials that aired in the 1980s, former president Sy Sperling famously claimed that he wasn't just the president — he was also a client.
San Antonio Current |
Melissa Ludwig |
12-05-2012 |
Tech
A Q&A with director Sacha Gervasinew
For filmmaker Sacha Gervasi, reinvention has been both an inevitable professional trajectory and a personal test of will.
San Antonio Current |
Jeff Meyers |
12-05-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Hitchcock
Give a man a fish...new
Solutions Farms has a staff of formerly homeless people who produce lettuce and tilapia in Vista, California.
San Diego Reader |
Candice Reed |
12-05-2012 |
Homelessness
Hitchcock is less about birds, more about the man — and the woman behind himnew
Sacha Gervasi's Hitchcock, based on the lauded 1990 book Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho, might've been somewhat better served if, while plumbing its source material for story arc and character beats, its crafters had just gone ahead and borrowed the title, as well.
San Antonio Current |
Brian Villalobos |
12-05-2012 |
Reviews
Viva John Lennon: Jenny Luna may be a dreamer, but she's not the only onenew
Jenny Luna wasn't even alive when John Lennon was murdered on December 8, 1980, let alone when the Beatles took the world by storm in the early '60s.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
12-05-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Still Fatnew
Joan Jackson’s mom told her that being female and black were two strikes against her. She couldn’t be fat as well.
San Diego Reader |
Joan Jackson |
12-05-2012 |
Culture
More Layoffs Coming at the Indianapolis Starnew
Determined to squeeze every last nickel from the withering carcass of The Indianapolis Star, corporate parent Gannett Co. plans to ship its local copy-editing and page-design jobs out of town.
Hang up the hangovernew
Stay horizontal. Swallow some vitamins. And never, ever overindulge again.
INDY Week |
Julie Johnson |
12-05-2012 |
Food+Drink
Surviving sobriety in Smashednew
A less naïve viewer (than myself) might readily see Smashed for what it is: a vehicle for an ambitious young talent to escape the straitjacket of typecasting. This is Mary Elizabeth Winstead's movie, and she's a charmer.
Grover Norquist Draws the Linenew
There have always been libertarian and authoritarian strains within the Republican Party. Both are very different, and sometimes they're even incompatible.
Charleston City Paper |
Jack Hunter |
12-05-2012 |
Policy Issues
Welcome to frack landnew
Colorado Springs City Council looks ready to welcome oil and gas drillers, but water could still be a problem.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Pam Zubeck |
12-05-2012 |
Energy
