AltWeeklies Wire
To be Free...and Safenew
The LGBT's Rainbow Riverfest highlights progress made and work still to be done.
Valley Advocate |
Maureen Turner |
09-25-2012 |
LGBT
How Many Cops are Enough?new
Bottom line on Summer Safety Initiative: budget cuts mean more dead bodies
NOW Magazine |
ENZO DI MATTEO |
09-25-2012 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: Police, public safety
Bass Controlnew
Esperanza Spalding raps about her groundbreaking Grammy Award, discovering the bass and cultivating creativity.
Monterey County Weekly |
Adam Joseph |
09-25-2012 |
Music
Tags: performance, Esperanza Spalding
Fish Consumption Warnings and Environmental Justicenew
People of color eat a lot of locally caught fish for economic and cultural reasons. But nationwide, efforts to warn anglers fail to reach many minority and low-income populations.
NUVO |
Environmental Health News |
09-25-2012 |
Civil Liberties
Full-Court Suppressionnew
You could be on the list of the new disenfranchised.
Folio Weekly |
Denise Reagan |
09-25-2012 |
Commentary
“I Consider Myself the Obamamobile”new
For one Democrat, making phone calls and stuffing campaign envelopes just isn’t enough.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Enrique Limón |
09-24-2012 |
Politics
Tags: Campaigns
Literary Photographer: A Snapshot of Natasha Tretheweynew
At first glance, a reader may not recognize Natasha Trethewey in the African American tradition of being innately political, but that is only if one is oblivious to the power of subtlety and the politics of the body.
Jackson Free Press |
C. Liegh McInnis |
09-24-2012 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Sweet Carolinenew
Victoria Sherwood interviews Caroline Herring.
Jackson Free Press |
Victoria Sherwood |
09-24-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Transcontinental Dub: Sun Araw’s Cameron Stallones Occupies the Crossroad of Disparate Soundsnew
Grafting a unique culture—whether it’s Rasta ideology or Appalachian entertainment—onto an art music spans genre and land mass, resulting in the disintegration of boundaries and the emergence of something ultimately unique.
Chicago Newcity |
Dave Cantor |
09-24-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Back In Time: Sci-fi Thriller Can’t Solve its Own Loopholes
As time-travel suspense thrillers go “Looper” is only a pinch better than mediocre.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
09-24-2012 |
Reviews
Girl Power: Anna Kendrick and Rebel Wilson Save A Cappella Comedy
Essentially a glorified episode of the television show “Glee,” “Pitch Perfect” is a spotty coming-of-age comedy that only marginally pays off on its promise of delivering harmonized vocal virtuosity.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
09-24-2012 |
Reviews
Certified Broken Enterprisenew
The worst-kept secret in D.C. contracting is how easy it is to game the system.
Washington City Paper |
Alan Suderman |
09-24-2012 |
Policy Issues
Polling Place Changes Hit Older Omaha Hardernew
On Primary Election Day, 82-year-old Robert Wright drove to Evans Tower on 24th Street in north Omaha from his home at 9th and Fort Streets. He heard on television that Evans Towers was a polling place. Because he hadn’t received a card in the mail telling him where to cast his vote, he figured someone at Evans Towers could at least give him that information, as he did not have internet access to look it up. Poll workers told him to drive to the pavilion at Miller Park. He used to vote at Sherman School, about five blocks from his home. His new polling location at Miller Park was 3 miles away.
The Reader |
John Heaston |
09-24-2012 |
Elections
Two Minute Criminalnew
Officer Mark Bralley was the fiend who had become the Two Minute Criminal for exercising his free-speech rights to criticize the committee and talk longer than two minutes when addressing them in the City Council chambers.
Weekly Alibi |
Dennis Domrzalski |
09-24-2012 |
Features
Tags: free speech, police
Oh, Canadanew
The Toronto Film Festival forecasts a so-so film season.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Sam Adams |
09-24-2012 |
Movies
