AltWeeklies Wire
Who Wants to Be a Socially Responsible Millionaire?new
Jeff Reifman left Microsoft with $5 million. He's trying to invest that wealth virtuously. It's not easy.
Seattle Weekly |
Jeff Reifman |
01-26-2005 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
The Next Bobby Kennedy ...new
... Could be Bobby Kennedy Jr.
Seattle Weekly |
Knute Berger |
01-26-2005 |
Commentary
Switch-Hittersnew
Scissor Sisters come out and play—for everybody.
Seattle Weekly |
Steve Wiecking |
01-26-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Scissor Sisters
The Minus Touchnew
A study of touch-screen voting in Snohomish County, Wash., suggests that machines favored the Republican candidate for governor. But there's no way to prove it.
Seattle Weekly |
Rick Anderson |
01-26-2005 |
Politics
New York's Last Executioner Kept His Work Secretnew
Deputy sheriff and electrician Dow B. Hover served as New York's executioner in the 1950s and 1960s, lowering the lever that operated the electric chair. He earned $150 per execution, but the work took a toll, his children say.
The Village Voice |
Jennifer Gonnerman |
01-26-2005 |
Crime & Justice
Positive Images Rule in Bush's Americanew
In the new America, we're not supposed to publish pictures of the bodies of the American dead in the streets -- only the Iraqis. Reality only gets in the way.
The Village Voice |
Sydney H. Schanberg |
01-26-2005 |
Politics
Mama Dramanew
After six predominantly acoustic solo albums, Kristin Hersh is playing some of the harshest, loudest music of her career with the trio 50 Foot Wave.
Cleveland Scene |
D.X. Ferris |
01-26-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Unlucky 13new
Ethan Hawke heads up a star-studded cast trapped in an unconvincing remake of John Carpenter's grungy 1976 movie of the same name.
Cleveland Scene |
Robert Wilonsky |
01-26-2005 |
Reviews
Is It Over Yet?new
Ice Cube's family-oriented movie is all a big, boring failure of slapstick and degradation. Of course, that's not to say your kids won't like it.
Cleveland Scene |
Melissa Levine |
01-26-2005 |
Reviews
New Kid On The Blocnew
Martin Cruz Smith, to his credit, has taken note of the competition, and Wolves Eat Dogs is a lesson in persistence; its steeped cynicism conveys the quality of feeling of a veteran Sovietologist, older and deeper than the disillusion of idealistic young'uns who put in a vodka-drenched post-collegiate year.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Jesse Berrett |
01-26-2005 |
Fiction
Tags: Martin Cruz Smith, Wolves Eat Dogs
Dogs Have Right to Comforts but No Public Sexnew
A blue law in San Francisco's Health Code says it's illegal for animals to "breed on public property." There's apparently no place for pets in this Mecca of free sexual expression.
SF Weekly |
Matt Smith |
01-26-2005 |
Animal Issues
Biologist and Environmentalists Clash Over a Mouse's Statusnew
Rob Ramey found that the Preble's jumping mouse, classified as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act in 1998, is no different from a lot of other mice running around. Environmentalists worry about the consequences if his finding prevails.
Westword |
David Holthouse |
01-26-2005 |
Environment
Everything You Know About Taxes is Wrongnew
Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter David Cay Johnston, author of Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich--and Cheat Everybody Else, discusses the damage our reverse Robin Hood tax scheme is doing to 99 percent of Americans, and about the perils posed to democracy by the growing inequalities of the system.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Beth Hawkins |
01-26-2005 |
Policy Issues
Tags: public policy issues
Apocalypse Soonnew
New books by Jared Diamond and Christopher D. Cook parse out details of the end of the world as we know it.
Baltimore City Paper |
Scott Carlson |
01-26-2005 |
Nonfiction
Dania Jai-Alai Faces Extinctionnew
On the eve of a vote on slot machines that could resuscitate this ailing, brutish ballet, both jai-alai fans and gringo Scotty Klier wonder how much longer their love affair with this elegant, 500-year-old Basque competition can continue.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Sam Eifling |
01-25-2005 |
Sports
Tags: sports & fitness
