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Artist Wants to Build Holocaust Memorial in Phoenixnew
Landscape architect Bill Tonnesen believes his true purpose in life is to build a Jewish Holocaust memorial of worldwide stature. Critics scoff that his greatest talent is self-promotion.
Phoenix New Times |
Sarah Fenske |
03-22-2005 |
Art
County Commissioner Targeted in Miami Airport Scandalnew
Scoundrels allegedly gorged themselves on millions of gallons of high-grade jet fuel stolen from Miami International Airport, and now a prominent politician is implicated in the conspiracy.
Miami New Times |
Tristram Korten |
03-22-2005 |
Politics
Apocalypse Pretty Soonnew
No one band illustrates with bolder clarity the weaknesses of Pitchfork, the most influential Web site in indie rock.
Houston Press |
John Nova Lomax |
03-22-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Student Who Spoke Out on Campus Safety Arrestednew
A few days after Texas Southern University freshman Leslie Williams complained to TV reporters about a breach of campus safety, university police had her thrown in jail.
Houston Press |
Mosi Secret |
03-22-2005 |
Education
Security Issues Shrouded in Silence on Crime-Ridden Campusnew
Stray gunfire killed sophomore Ashley Sloan on Texas Southern University campus on Dec. 4. Her death was another failing grade in a subject the university claims to have made a priority: student safety.
Houston Press |
Mosi Secret |
03-22-2005 |
Education
Memoir Covers the Author's Struggle to Believe and Morenew
David Plante descends from Ernest Hemingway and writes a high American plain style with a personality all its own. In his memoir American Ghosts, he quotes a passage from Hemingway’s Death in the Afternoon, and his prose stands up to it.
Boston Phoenix |
William Corbett |
03-22-2005 |
Nonfiction
Tags: American Ghosts, David Plante
'Commercial Ethnography' Is Latest Marketing Toolnew
Jesse Kipp's job in the emerging field of commercial ethnography could make you the star of your very own advertisement.
SF Weekly |
Nate Cavalieri |
03-21-2005 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
Love, African Stylenew
A drama about Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings in post-apartheid South Africa devolves into a clumsy romance.
Finder's Feenew
Damian Cunningham is an angel-faced, 7-year-old boy who's lost his mum and gets advice on how to spend a load of cash from the late, great saints.
From Cheerleading to Lockupnew
After high school cheerleader Janeisha Lewis tried to stop a dispute between two gang members, she was arrested. With one foot in the system, she worries she'll get stuck.
Westword |
Luke Turf |
03-21-2005 |
Crime & Justice
New Recycling Policy Curbs Poachersnew
Single-stream recycling is convenient for residents and a windfall for big companies, but it's a fiasco for homeless scavengers.
East Bay Express |
Robert Gammon |
03-21-2005 |
Policy Issues
Tags: public policy issues
Americans Are Divided in Opinion on British Musiciannew
One camp of dance scenesters see Fatboy Slim as an entertaining personality who has introduced them to a vibrant type of music, while others think he's sold out the genre via pop-oriented electro-smashes that steal attention from the form's true innovators.
Westword |
Michael Roberts |
03-21-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
The Revolution Comes to Leisure Worldnew
The front end of the baby boom is trickling into active-senior communities, bringing their anti-establishment ethos, assertiveness, and self-consciousness with them, transforming an industry designed around a more docile and proletarian generation.
East Bay Express |
Chris Thompson |
03-21-2005 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
Allen and Costner Are Upside's Upsidenew
This movie belongs to Joan Allen, who plays Terry Wolfmeyer, a wife abandoned by her husband and left to pick up the pieces and collect them in a giant bottle of vodka. Terry's is the cold, composed visage of a woman struggling to keep it together.
Dallas Observer |
Robert Wilonsky |
03-21-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Mike Binder, The Upside of Anger
Rangers' GM Hart Gets Little Lovenew
Rangers fans and the local sports media blame John Hart for screwing things up and blame him for not doing anything. Illogical though it is, he's labeled both culpable and irrelevant.
Dallas Observer |
John Gonzalez |
03-21-2005 |
Sports
Tags: sports & fitness
