AltWeeklies Wire
Cumberland Island Will Be Open to Autosnew
Until recently, the north end of Georgia's Cumberland Island was one of the more remote places in the Southeast. Most people could reach it only by foot. Now automobiles will be widely allowed on previously protected parts of the island, due to the work of U.S. Rep. Jack Kingston.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Michael Wall |
12-02-2004 |
Environment
Tags: environment
When It Comes to Bogus Mortgages, Atlanta Leads the Nationnew
For more than a year, Georgia has raced past Florida, the usual state of first resort for real estate scumbags, in mortgage fraud. Our fraud rates are more than two-and-a-half times what they should be for our population.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
John Sugg |
12-02-2004 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: business
The Fun Begins As Georgia Libertarians Notch a Winnew
The Libertarians won their first partisan election in the state when Ben Brandon of Rising Fawn was elected Dade County executive.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Doug Monroe |
12-02-2004 |
Politics
How Fanning Island Got a Toilet and Other Tales of Development
The arrival of the Norwegian Cruise Line's mammoth Norwegian Wind is turning isolated Fanning Island from a fish-and-coconuts economy to one of cold, hard cash.
Honolulu Weekly |
Catharine Lo |
12-01-2004 |
International
Tags: international
Acts of Charity in Times of War
I have a difficult time justifying this hypocrisy in my own mind, or even explaining it to a child who sees the wars as a nightly occurrence on the news, which then segues into a report on holiday festivities, shopping and charitable acts of kindness by people of fame and fortune.
Random Lengths News |
James Preston Allen |
12-01-2004 |
Commentary
Strength in Differencesnew
And now, music fans, relax and welcome to the "Sound of Strange America." We don't have a particular sound in the Bay Area – we've got dozens of them.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
J. H. Tompkins |
12-01-2004 |
Music
Everybody Say 'Yeah'new
What is the San Francisco Sound?
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Kimberly Chun |
12-01-2004 |
Music
Weight-Loss Surgery Can Be a Lose-Lose Situationnew
The mortality rate for obese patients who have bariatric surgery may be much greater than thought.
Baltimore City Paper |
Edward Ericson Jr. |
12-01-2004 |
Science
Coffee-Table Books with a Jagged Edgenew
Buying a coffee-table book once conferred a sense of your own good taste. It was only a matter of time before publishers began catering to the downwardly aspirational, offering cheap (well, not that cheap) voyages into other people's fringe or freaky existences.
The Village Voice |
Joy Press |
12-01-2004 |
Nonfiction
Media Come Out Slugging After NBA Brawlnew
The tabs and the custodians of "serious journalism" applied their cultural critique of choice to the Artest-incited brawl in Detroit. Why isn't a similar moral lens cast on the war in Iraq or the scenes of mad shoppers trampling each other on the first day of the Christmas shopping season?
The Village Voice |
Jarrett Murphy |
12-01-2004 |
Media
Tags: media
Jonathan Franzen's Imaginary Friendnew
The novelist's fine essay in the Nov. 29 issue of The New Yorker is about the comic strip "Peanuts" and his own depressing childhood. How many people would admit to identifying with the loser Charlie Brown?
New York Press |
Russ Smith |
12-01-2004 |
Media
Democratic Leaders Join Michael Moore Witch-Huntnew
Why are all of these Democratic Party leaders distancing themselves from Moore and calling him "anti-American" when Fahrenheit 9/11 clearly outperformed the Dems and John Kerry this year?
New York Press |
Matt Taibbi |
12-01-2004 |
Commentary
Your Parents Are Charging Your Futurenew
The first of the baby boomers will retire in 2008. Their adult children in Generation Debt are understandably nervous about their parents' security -- and by extension, their own.
The Village Voice |
Anya Kamenetz |
12-01-2004 |
Policy Issues
Tags: public policy issues
Girls, Interruptednew
In Growing Up Fast, documentarian Joanna Lipper offered a piercing look at teen motherhood. Now her book lets six young mothers tell their stories in their own words.
Boston Phoenix |
Camille Dodero |
12-01-2004 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
A Hate Supremenew
If Chief Justice William Rehnquist retires, the bios that come should not gloss over his ardent and active support of racial segregation in the years before he joined the Supreme Court, when he was a private lawyer in Phoenix, Ariz.
Boston Phoenix |
David Bernstein |
12-01-2004 |
Race & Class
