AltWeeklies Wire
The Gay It Forward Couponnew

Discount service unifies LGBT and business communities.
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) |
Laura Camilo |
06-19-2012 |
LGBT
Beasts of the Southern Wildnew

The Louisiana-shot film that's burning up the world's film festivals.
Building On the Public's Dimenew
It seems like every time certain private investors come up short on their grand development ideas, they want to beg, borrow or steal, money from the public purse with the best of intentions.
Random Lengths News |
James Preston Allen |
06-18-2012 |
Housing & Development
Affordable Housing Out Of Reach For Most Rentersnew
If you’re working a minimum wage job in America, where can you afford to live? Other than your parents’ basement, the answer is simple: Nowhere. That’s according to “Out of Reach 2012,” the National Low Income Housing Coalition’s most recent version of its annual report.
Random Lengths News |
Paul Rosenberg |
06-18-2012 |
Homelessness
Chest-Bursting Funnew

Ridley Scott returns to the 'Alien' universe with a masterpiece.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
06-18-2012 |
Reviews
Remarkably insipid Hysteria recounts the invention of the vibratornew

What could have been a quirky and entertaining tale of Victorian London plus vibrators instead turns into 90 minutes of predictable plot lines and flat characters.
Tags: Hysteria, Vibrator Inventor
That Outlaw Spiritnew

J.P. Harris stays handy while developing his own brand of traditional country music.
Tucson Weekly |
Gene Armstrong |
06-18-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Going Organicnew

The Cave Singers keep up their natural progression.
Tucson Weekly |
Annie Holub |
06-18-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: cave singers
Misery Breeds Beautynew

Gillian Welch turns in excellent early-country-bluegrass duets on her first album in eight years.
Tucson Weekly |
Eric Swedlund |
06-18-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: gillian welch
Sad Vacation: Woody’s European Tour Jumps the Track

It would be an insincere compliment to call “To Rome With Love” a piecemeal comic reverie.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
06-18-2012 |
Reviews
Hold your peacenew

A boring cult, two bumbling journalists and the Cranberries make for a dull, incomplete narrative exercise in 'Sound of My Voice'
Orlando Weekly |
Justin Strout |
06-18-2012 |
Reviews
The rise and fall and rise of the creative class
Richard Florida's 2002 book The Rise of the Creative Class was hailed as the salvation for struggling cities, a brilliant new approach to sociological and cultural changes, a paradigm for economic development, and a way to attract the best and brightest to a metro area.
YES! Weekly |
Ogi Overman |
06-18-2012 |
Features
Code Deadnew

Do the encrypted writings of Ricky McCormick hold the key to his mysterious death?
Riverfront Times |
Christopher Tritto |
06-17-2012 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: Ricky McCormick Death
Pols Need an Education - From Overseas
Public education is mirroring American society overall: a tiny island of haves surrounded by a vast ocean of have-nots. The idea neither party is willing to consider, is to replace localized control of education—funding, administration and curricula—with centralized federal control, as is common in Europe and around the world.
Tags: Education