AltWeeklies Wire
Winston-Salem council raises taxes and cuts managerial positions
The Winston-Salem City Council voted to raise taxes by 3.4 percent, passing a budget with significant spending cuts that is expected to result in the elimination of about a dozen professional and management jobs, delayed fleet and equipment replacement, less money for street maintenance and reductions in travel spending.
YES! Weekly |
Jordan Green |
06-25-2012 |
Politics
Seeking a Friend for the End of the Worldnew
Seek it out.
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) |
Matt Brunson |
06-25-2012 |
Reviews
Fiona Apple: 'The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do'new
In the fourth coming of Fiona Apple, with its darkly philosophical title that sounds as though Emily Dickinson could have written it, the listener is — at once — therapist, friend, and nemesis.
San Antonio Current |
James Courtney |
06-25-2012 |
Reviews
Kasim Reed's Gay Problemnew
Mayor Reed's aspirations are put to the test with gay marriage issue
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
James Richardson |
06-25-2012 |
Politics
Votto's Monster Season Going Under the Radarnew
Joey Votto should be the face of baseball right now. He should be the biggest name in the game, there should be cameras following his every move, national TV commercials and the talking heads on TV saying "Votto" so much that you’d think it was a verb.
Cincinnati CityBeat |
C. Trent Rosecrans |
06-25-2012 |
Sports
Stars Like These: Banks and Pine Go Hepburn and Tracy
Smart dialogue intersperses a by-committee soap opera plot in a movie made much better than the sum of its vulnerable narrative by three terrific actors.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
06-25-2012 |
Reviews
Moonrise Kingdom is whimsical, but doesn't get bogged down in tweenew
In Moonrise Kingdom, director-to-the-hipster-set Wes Anderson may have finally stumbled upon a cinematic sweet spot in which utter preciousness doesn't drown out the genuine charm of his film.
Charleston City Paper |
Felicia Feaster |
06-25-2012 |
Reviews
Blind Divine: The One Hundred Box Setnew
Many musicians release boxed sets, but those are usually career retrospectives or best-of collections. Meanwhile, Tucson's Blind Divine recently issued a set of five CDs of all previously unreleased material...
Tucson Weekly |
Gene Armstrong |
06-25-2012 |
Reviews
Help for Headachesnew
If medical marijuana can help people with migraines, then people with migraines should be able to use medical marijuana.
Tucson Weekly |
J.M. Smith |
06-25-2012 |
Drugs
Tags: medical marijuana
Church-state watchdog claims taxpayer-funded charter school more parochial than publicnew
"Because God has positioned me and put me in this garden called San Antonio, he has given me the jurisdiction to operate with dominion in San Antonio, amen?" – Cheryl Washington
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
06-25-2012 |
Religion
Tags: charter schools
Lazer Sword: Memorynew
Electronic duo and production team Lazer Sword—Antaeus Roy (aka Lando Kal) and Bryant Rutledge (aka Low Limit)—is back with its first studio effort since 2010's self-titled debut full-length. Memory, out on Modeselektor's Monkeytown label, is only a slight departure from the partnership's crunky roots...
Tucson Weekly |
Jarret Keene |
06-25-2012 |
Reviews
ACLU lawsuit challenges second-parent adoption ban
When you’re adopting, everyone says you should submit for multiple children and not to set your heart on one kid. The process is often arduous and potentially disappointing.
YES! Weekly |
Eric Ginsburg |
06-25-2012 |
Politics
Tags: second-parent adoption
Funky Soul of Memphis: Booker T. Jones is Backnew
It’s a big story and only getting bigger. The spate of international touring Booker T has in his future will likely take him down some new roads, thoroughfares a kid from Memphis could have never dreamed he’d travel.
Chicago Newcity |
Dave Cantor |
06-25-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Arizona immigration ruling affects Indiananew
A U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down key parts of an Arizona immigration law means that similar Indiana provisions are unconstitutional.
NUVO |
Lesley Weidenbener |
06-25-2012 |
Immigration
Third Root: 'Stand for Something'new
From the lilting sampled opening riffs of “Brother, Brother,” the first tune on Third Root’s sterling debut disc...
San Antonio Current |
John Phillip Santos |
06-25-2012 |
Reviews
