AltWeeklies Wire
The Ivory Tower's Glass Ceilingnew
Female academics seeking tenure are falling below the curve.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Catherine Hess |
04-13-2005 |
The War on Women
Tags: women's issues
Hello Is for Childrennew
Turtles Can Fly mines the kid-survivor stories of Kurdish Iraq.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Susan Gerhard |
04-13-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Bahman Ghobadi, Turtles Can Fly
Grudge Matchnew
Payback's a bitch in Park Chan-wook's thrilling Oldboy.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Cheryl Eddy |
04-13-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Park Chan-wook, Oldboy
Money for Nothingnew
Eddy Zheng got a 7-years-to-life prison sentence, served 19 years, and now faces deportation -- a case study in our wasteful approach to punishing immigrants.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Momo Chang |
04-13-2005 |
Immigration
Tags: Immigration
Caught in a Blog Bognew
A San Francisco campaign finance law that might have imposed some restrictions on bloggers got fledgling online journalists all up in a tizzy.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Matthew Hirsch |
04-13-2005 |
Media
Tags: media
Queen of Queensnew
The newest member of Queens of the Stone Age, Natasha Shneider, reports from the front.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Kimberly Chun |
04-13-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Queens of the Stone Age
Playing to Winnew
The Game's Documentary and West Coast Resurrection probe what it means to be a gangsta in a deindustrialized world.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Kevin Y. Kim |
04-13-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
The Snitchnew
A ruthless informant tells all about the underside of San Francisco's underworld.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
A. C. Thompson |
04-13-2005 |
Crime & Justice
Building a Mysterynew
Who is Eric Rudolph and how did he elude capture for so long? Where did he hide? Who helped him? Despite all the biographic and forensic details Schuster and Stone weave together, the fact remains that only Rudolph knows his full story.
Mountain Xpress |
Jon Elliston |
04-13-2005 |
Nonfiction
How The Minutemen Play on Fears and Fantasies
Author Rubén Martínez comments on The Minutemen, U.S. immigration policy and why George Bush wants to save the Mexicans.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Julia Goldberg |
04-13-2005 |
Immigration
Blows Against the Empirenew
A former Playboy model and card shark plays on our collective lust for all things confessional in her new book, which dishes premium dirt on Hugh Hefner's messianic goatishness.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Diablo Cody |
04-13-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Fairy Dust: Jeanette Winterson Floats Awaynew
British novelist Jeannette Winterson's eighth novel marks a return to the trademark intimacy of her acclaimed earlier work. It’s cyclical, circular and surreal, and the Biblical lilt of it is counterbalanced by glimmering flimsiness.
Boston Phoenix |
Nina MacLaughlin |
04-13-2005 |
Fiction
Former Guerrillas in Kurdistan Dream of Nationhoodnew
While some Kurds dream of a pan-state Kurdistan that would unite all Kurds under one government, that's unlikely as long as both Iran and Turkey have all those tanks and helicopters, and as long as the U.S. has any say.
The Village Voice |
David Axe |
04-13-2005 |
International
Fortunate Sonnew
This film directed by the son of Michael Eisner is a stunning piece of work -- stunningly inept, stunningly incoherent, stunningly awful in every way imaginable.
Grime Paysnew
Few musicians in England have risen from obscurity to celebrity more dramatically than Dizzee Rascal.
Westword |
Michael Roberts |
04-12-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
