AltWeeklies Wire
A Tricycle Built for Sevennew
The German-engineered septocycle, also known as a conference bike, combines a guard-lowering silliness factor with mechanical engineering prowess.
Reno News & Review |
Kris Vagner |
10-31-2005 |
Environment
Submerged: An Evacuee's Journal: Ground Zero
Evacuees of New Orleans are drawn to the 17th Street levee breach the way New Yorkers were drawn to Ground Zero. It is a place to contemplate in anger that much of the devastation of their city need not have happened. Ninth in a multi-part series
Association of Alternative Newsmedia |
Michael Tisserand |
10-31-2005 |
Disasters
Let’s Stay Together
Chicken Little feels like Disney’s attempt to make Pixar jealous.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
10-31-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Chicken Little, Mark Dindal
Damian 'Jr. Gong' Marley + Sean Paul = Reggae's Next Wavenew
Reggae artists who seek to move the massive at home and reach the masses abroad must strike a balance between international appeal and local taste. Two recent releases reveal different ways of walking this tightrope.
Boston Phoenix |
Wayne Marshall |
10-31-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Operation Nowherenew
What if you threw a border patrol operation and no one came? An on-the-scene report from The Minutemen patrol in New Mexico.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Nathan Dinsdale |
10-31-2005 |
Immigration
Not Quite Ready For Prime Time
Torn between infantile rom com and mature dramedy, Prime suffers from it's own identity crisis.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
10-31-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Ben Younger, Prime
Montreal Becomes Hub for Producing Video Gamesnew
Video game programmers are leaving their parents’ basements and coming to Montreal in droves, priming it to become the East Coast’s premier gaming city.
Montreal Mirror |
Erik Leijon |
10-31-2005 |
Video Games
Peeved Reevesnew
At an assembly-line celebrity interview at the Toronto International Film Festival, Thumbsucker star Keanu Reeves tells journalists as little as possible.
Montreal Mirror |
Matthew Hays |
10-31-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
The McKilling Fieldsnew
Of the estimated 30,000 civilians slain in Iraq, 37 percent have been killed by the U.S. military, according to the Web site IraqBodyCount.org. Do average Iraqis believe that Americans are trying to free them?
North Bay Bohemian |
Peter Byrne |
10-31-2005 |
Commentary
Consider it Liquid Sushi: Fish Oilnew
The mention of cod liver oil reminds many people of the indignity of forced childhood feedings that their grandparents are still grousing about.
Boise Weekly |
Dr. Ed Rabin |
10-29-2005 |
Science
Reality Bites Back
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s superhero posturing seems to have run out of steam,
but will voter apathy save him?
Random Lengths News |
Paul Rosenberg |
10-28-2005 |
Politics
Special-Election Masquerade
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's support for propositions 73 through 78 exposes the corporate-driven right-wing GOP political machine for all of its not-so-compassionate conservatism.
Random Lengths News |
James Preston Allen |
10-28-2005 |
Commentary
At the White House, the Spin Doctor Is Ill
While indictment fever gripped the Washington press corps in October,
the president's spin doctor was incapacitated. An ailing Karl Rove could
not help the Republican search for a media cure.
Random Lengths News |
Norman Solomon |
10-28-2005 |
Commentary
Black Comedy
Adult Swim's new Boondocks makes you think, while 12 Oz. Mouse makes you think you’re on drugs.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Bill Frost |
10-28-2005 |
TV
Tags: TV
Raising Hellnew
Clive Barker, whose paintings are colorful, ornate and sometimes highly erotic, unleashes his demons.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Kara Luger |
10-28-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
