AltWeeklies Wire
Why Hast Thou Forsaken the Merlotnew
Merlot is actually a very important grape varietal, which became a virtual superstar during the '90s. Now that pinot noir has taken over the stage, merlot is suddenly uncool. Well, let’s ponder that, shall we?
Jackson Free Press |
Lesley Tolar McHardy |
05-12-2005 |
Food+Drink
Life Management Made Quickienew
Folks are starting to get used to the concept of wikis, Web pages that can be edited and added to from within the browser window itself, while you’re viewing the page.
Jackson Free Press |
Todd Stauffer |
05-12-2005 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
Gas Price Hell: Is the End Drawing Nigh?new
The skyrocketing price of gas may mean worse things than you think.
Jackson Free Press |
Adam Lynch |
05-12-2005 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
Cable News Networks Love White Chicksnew
This country is crazy about white chicks, especially when they've been kidnapped, ravaged or killed. But what about the black 16-year-old who disappeared on her way to class?
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Doug Monroe |
05-12-2005 |
Media
72-Year-Old Woman Chooses Radical Therapy to Fight Cancernew
At a dead end with mainstream medicine, a woman with inoperable cancer turns to alternative and natural remedies developed by German physician Max Gerson in the late 1920s.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Alyssa Abkowitz |
05-12-2005 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
Myth Over Matter: How George Lucas Reached for the Starsnew
"A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away" -- from Star Wars’s opening moment, George Lucas made it clear he wasn’t interested in making ordinary movies. No Casablanca for him; no Citizen Kane or The Searchers or L’avventura or Persona.
Boston Phoenix |
Jeffrey Gantz |
05-12-2005 |
Movies
The Next Great Indecency Threatnew
The religious right (and a few liberals) already have broadcasters on the run. Coming up: Cable, satellite, and -- just possibly -- the Internet.
Boston Phoenix |
Dan Kennedy |
05-12-2005 |
Media
Tags: media
Gamer: Choppers, Chores, and Antisocial Behaviornew
You scored -- welcome to the maiden installment of the Bay Guardian's new video game review column. First up, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (Rockstar Games).
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Mike McGuirk |
05-11-2005 |
Video Games
Tags: video games
Tags Are Itnew
Atari's Getting Up: Contents under Pressure has graffiti artists pissed and S.F. do-gooders braced for trouble.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Mike Louie |
05-11-2005 |
Video Games
Tags: video games
Bringing Down the Aryan Brotherhoodnew
Until a few years ago, Joseph Principe was a correctional officer at the highest-security prison in the country. Getting ensnared in a federal racketeering case made him an inmate.
Westword |
Alan Prendergast |
05-11-2005 |
Crime & Justice
Another Brick in the Wallnew
If the dismally morose Daybreak is any indication, the flavor of Swedish misery is remarkably similar to the kind we do here in America -- only colder and with less natural light.
Club Lifenew
A dreamy mood movie, 3-Iron is at times deliciously sensual, creepily somnolent, whimsically spiritual, and disturbingly violent. But it is never quite coherent.
Strike at SF Chronicle Seems Unlikelynew
With labor contracts up in July, the paper's labor unions face a near-impossible task: maintaining some of the best contracts in the industry in the teeth of one of the worst newspaper slumps anywhere.
New SF Chonicle Publisher Takes On Staffing Issuesnew
Frank Vega has been cast as a villain, but he may be just what the Hearst empire needs to defeat the dark forces of the new economy.
Idiot Savantsnew
It's easy to gripe about Green Day's politics being reductionist. At least the band provides an entry into some semblance of social awareness for teens and 'tweens.
Cleveland Scene |
Jason Bracelin |
05-11-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
