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What's So Wrong About Lynching?new

Need the latest proof that politicians have gone off the deep end? Last week 16 senators chose not to support a resolution apologizing for years of the Senate's obstructing any and all attempts to pass national anti-lynching legislation.

Dig Boston | Seth McM. Donlin | 06-22-2005 | Commentary

Is San Francisco Still a Gay Mecca?new

Yeah, pretty much ... but if someday it wasn't, would that be so terrible?

San Francisco Bay Guardian | Lynn Rapoport | 06-21-2005 | LGBT

Tags: gay & lesbian issues

A Risky Band's Radical Departurenew

Although any one of the 10 tracks would have been a highlight on any other album, the overall quality is so consistent, the sequencing so inevitable, the juxtapositions so compelling, that singling out a particular track does a disservice to the others.

Illinois Times | Rene Spencer Saller | 06-21-2005 | Reviews

Tags: Sleater-Kinney, The Woods

Two Great Tastes Taste Great Togethernew

This album is a study in bleak romanticism, 10 stunning tracks in which luminous harmonies materialize from moody maelstroms and dark dirges give way to ravishing lullabies. Also reviewed is Jim White Presents Music From Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus.

Illinois Times | Rene Spencer Saller | 06-21-2005 | Reviews

Tags: Yann Tiersen and Shannon Wright

Eulogy for Billy Mack See-Insidenew

It was the name he wanted and what he could do. He could see inside living trees, feel time as it was when each ring was newborn.

Illinois Times | Doug Bybee Sr. | 06-21-2005 | Original Work

Tags: Capital Voices, Doug Bybee Sr.

Privileged Twentysomething Finds (Homeless) Shelternew

Eric Anglada gave up a life of privilege in order to live at a Catholic Worker home in central Illinois, where he cooks meals and tends to the needs of the poor. The past two-and-a-half years have been "the happiest" of his life, he says.

Illinois Times | Luiza Ilie | 06-21-2005 | Economy

Tags: Economic Issues

Illinois Pharmacists Assert Right of Refusalnew

A staunch group of pharmacists have been blocking prescriptions for emergency contraception and, in some cases, birth-control pills as well. They're willing to fight Gov. Rod Blagojevich to do so.

Illinois Times | Joan Villa | 06-21-2005 | Sex

Tags: morning-after, pill

Columnist for Salenew

If columnist Armstrong Williams can get big bucks for pushing the No Child Left Behind program, why shouldn't this columnist auction off a few stories?

North Bay Bohemian | Peter Byrne | 06-21-2005 | Commentary

Tags: George W. Bush administration, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger

Punk Elegies for the '00snew

The Warrior's Code takes somber subjects -- war and the soldiers who fight it, urban poverty, fallen friends -- and sets them to the bruising but melodic punk that's the Dropkicks' stock-in-trade.

Boston Phoenix | Mike Miliard | 06-21-2005 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Dropkick Murphys, Hellcat, Tessie, The Warrior's Code, Unseen

PBS or just BS?

A GOP-run CPB means the USA is SOL. Only an ideologue would miss the point that publicly funded broadcasting is good for the public.

Birmingham Weekly | Courtney Haden | 06-21-2005 | Media

Tags: PBS, Congressional funding, corporate corruption, media criticism, public funding

Other Englandsnew

Who wrote Hamlet? Did Christopher Marlowe help William Shakespeare? Plus, the tragic vision and mystical romance of Joan Aiken's Wolves Chronicles.

Boston Phoenix | Jeffrey Gantz | 06-20-2005 | Fiction

Tags: in, and, of, King, wolves, Nantucket, black, Stolen, Hearts, Lodge, Alex Jack; Joan Aiken, Battersea, Chase, Clatteringshaws, Cuckoo, Dido, Hamlet; Wolves Chronicles, Lake, Lear, Limbo, Midwinter, Nightbirds, Nightingale, Pa, TREE, Willoughby

Arena Football Garners Respect... Sort Ofnew

The NFL's goofy little stepbrother has made strides toward legitimacy, and with an EA Sports videogame in the works Arena football just might go from gridiron methadone to main event. But indoor football still can't catch a break on the major sports networks -- not even with the help of Bon Jovi.

Boulder Weekly | Vince Darcangelo | 06-20-2005 | Sports

Tags: sports & fitness