AltWeeklies Wire
Super Erosnew
A slash fiction writer gives up her secret identity.
Baltimore City Paper |
Violet Glaze |
09-28-2005 |
Original Work
Dark Artsnew
Comics master Charles Burns digs deeper in Black Hole.
Baltimore City Paper |
Tom Chalkley |
09-28-2005 |
Fiction
Hurricanes Love the Heatnew
Now that two superstorms have pummeled the Gulf Coast in less than four weeks, one has to ask: Has global warming souped up Atlantic hurricanes?
The Village Voice |
Jarrett Murphy |
09-28-2005 |
Environment
Madam President, Madam Presidentnew
America finally has a female president, or at least someone who plays the part on television, and some think the show could pave the way for President Hillary Clinton.
The Village Voice |
Kristen Lombardi |
09-28-2005 |
Politics
Any Profit in a Stormnew
Stormy weather allows big oil to practice a crude sort of blackmail, even though the rise in oil prices may turn out to have little to do with hurricanes.
The Village Voice |
James Ridgeway |
09-28-2005 |
Commentary
How Many More Will Die in Iraq?new
This country's sacrifices of war are being borne solely by the roughly 160,000 men and women in uniform who are risking -- and losing -- their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan, and by their grieving and worried families.
The Village Voice |
Sydney H. Schanberg |
09-28-2005 |
Commentary
Back from the Dead
New Mexico State Police return home with gruesome stories of their mission of providing security for body recovery teams in New Orleans’s Ninth Ward neighborhood.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Dan Frosch |
09-28-2005 |
Disasters
I Sing the Scooter Electric
A former gas guzzler ponders hurricanes, climate change and the Car of the Future, before settling on an electric scooter.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Jennifer Lowe |
09-28-2005 |
Environment
Let Pump Prices Soarnew
Gas should stay expensive so we value the earth's rare gift and use it wisely for the common good. If governments really want to moderate the cost of fuel, they'll reduce demand.
NOW Magazine |
Wayne Roberts |
09-27-2005 |
Commentary
Paul Wall Emerges as Houston Hip-Hop’s Great White Hopenew
Paul Wall is a diminutive, diamond-grilled DJ/MC who while maintaining the sonic sensibility of Houston’s other rappers presents one notable difference: he's white. Wall’s success has run parallel to a renewed Northern interest in Houston rap.
Boston Phoenix |
Chris Nelson |
09-27-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Paul Wall, The Peoples Champ
Fall Books Defy Disasternew
This coming fall and winter are thin on fiction but large on hulking works of non-fiction that might help us catch up with this runaway bobsled called planet Earth.
Boston Phoenix |
John Freeman |
09-27-2005 |
Books
Tags: in, wedding, George, of, Smith, John, a, rice, Christ, child, Robert, Joan, out, Frank, Mom, Jonathan, Collins, Goodwin, Gabriel, Wilson, Again, Anita, Anne, Berry, Billy, Bloom, Brand, Carol, Christopher, Coover, cotton, December, Didion, Doris, Dyer, Egypt, Eric, Fisk, Foner, Garcia, Geoff, H.W., Harold, Hodgman, Joanna, Joyce, Kearns, Kenneth, Kevin, Koch, Lord:, Marquez, McCourt, melancholy, Memories, Missing, My, Oates, Packer, Patti, Raban, Rafi, Scott, Shreve, SZYMBORSKA, Wendell, whores, WISLAWA, young, Zabor
'Every Gangsta Got His Day'new
Brad Braxton knows who shot him; before he goes to a gangster's final destination, he has a choice to make.
Westword |
Luke Turf |
09-27-2005 |
Crime & Justice
Something Missingnew
This film about a young man's search for the woman who saved his grandfather from the Nazis certainly has strengths, including gorgeous art direction and clever humor, but its essence is empty.
Pig Governmentnew
This country's lack-of-mobility disease, made evident by the failed evacuation of New Orleans, gives off an unmistakable aroma of cooked pork.
SF Weekly |
Matt Smith |
09-27-2005 |
Commentary
Proposed Ohio Bill Would Limit Access to Criminal Recordsnew
A bill would allow most ex-cons with multiple convictions to apply to get their records sealed if they've stayed clean for seven years.
Cleveland Scene |
Lisa Rab |
09-27-2005 |
Politics
