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Peter Panachenew

In adapting Allan Knee's play The Man Who Was Peter Pan, Forster indulges in broad, maudlin melodrama via his favorite topics (lost children, family wreckage), but gradually, to his credit, he rises from the plentiful syrup to deliver touching poetry.
Phoenix New Times  |  Gregory Weinkauf  |  11-24-2004  |  Reviews

University Prez Curbs Free Speech to Please Donornew

Be it to keep the Commission on Presidential Debates at bay, cower to a donor who also happens to be a George W. Bush elector in the Electoral College, or coddle members of the Mormon church, Arizona State University's president is trying to scare a campus of 55,000 into submission.
Phoenix New Times  |  Joe Watson  |  11-24-2004  |  Civil Liberties

South Florida's Sex Industry Goes Onlinenew

In the national $8-billion-dollar-a-year sex trade, the Internet has become an insulating blanket protecting women from the dangers of the street while allowing them smart new methods to screen potential clients for safety.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach  |  Jeff Stratton  |  11-24-2004  |  Sex

Abandoning the Family's Thanksgiving Dinnernew

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday, hands down. I'm just not so fond of the way my own family celebrates, which is to gather at Grandmother's house and sit down to a bland, joyless meal that relies almost exclusively on the wonders of modern convenience foods.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta)  |  Bill Addison  |  11-24-2004  |  Food+Drink

Highway to Hellnew

Seattle's Himsa unleash their fury on an unsuspecting nation -- just don't call it 'metalcore.'
Seattle Weekly  |  Andrew Bonazelli  |  11-24-2004  |  Profiles & Interviews

How 9/11 Trumped the Anti-WTO Movementnew

In the shadow of 9/11, the days of 1999 seem positively innocent. Both sides in the anti-globalization debate have their dark, ugly underbellies, and the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, have made them very felt in our everyday lives.
Seattle Weekly  |  Knute Berger  |  11-24-2004  |  Policy Issues

Whatever Happened to Key WTO Protest Players?new

A where-are-they-now guide to the Mayor, the Chief, "Hippie Bitch" Forman and other important figures involved -- in one way or another -- with Seattle's WTO protests of 1999.
Seattle Weekly  |  Rick Anderson  |  11-24-2004  |  Policy Issues

Why There Won't Be Another 'Seattle'new

As big a disaster as the WTO protests were for almost everyone involved, it was a watershed moment for police. Nowadays, whenever a city hosts a major meeting of the International Monetary Fund, say, Seattle Police Department officials hear from cops who are looking for ways to avoid the mistakes made in Seattle.
Seattle Weekly  |  Philip Dawdy  |  11-24-2004  |  Policy Issues

Seattle, Five Years After the WTO Protestsnew

Is this what failure looks like? Third World delegates have gridlocked the WTO but in the U.S. anti-globalization organizers have struggled to convert street heat into policy.
Seattle Weekly  |  Geov Parrish  |  11-24-2004  |  Policy Issues

East Side Storynew

More multiculturalist than conqueror, Oliver Stone's Alexander the Great puts vision ahead of victory. Be warned: It's a long march through Asia.
Seattle Weekly  |  Brian Miller  |  11-24-2004  |  Reviews

Eminem's Worldnew

Eminem's rhymes have the rambling hypersensitivity of diary entries, schizophrenically bouncing between nervous moments of clarity and narcissistic attempts at self-aggrandizement.
Miami New Times  |  Mosi Reeves  |  11-23-2004  |  Reviews

Learning the Art of Journalism in Bolivianew

The Narco News School of Authentic Journalism is a 10-day exploration of authenticity and reality in the context of the "Drug War in the U.S. and southward, held this time in Cochabamba, Bolivia, and the coca-growing Chapare jungle outside that colorful Andean city.
Dayton City Paper  |  Amy Casada-Alaniz  |  11-23-2004  |  Media

Cast, Away

TBS goes back to the beach with The Real Gilligan's Island ... but ... why?
Salt Lake City Weekly  |  Bill Frost  |  11-23-2004  |  TV

Burnednew

Delays in CD deliveries have some Colorado bands screaming mad. Some say it's one more example of the vulnerability of young bands in a cutthroat business, while others say it's just the bad economy. Welcome to the music-industrial complex.
Boulder Weekly  |  Vince Darcangelo  |  11-22-2004  |  Music

Brownie Batternew

Nothing spurs a great rivalry more than location, and the Pittsburgh Steelers-Cleveland Browns Turnpike Rivalry is without equal.
Boulder Weekly  |  Vince Darcangelo  |  11-22-2004  |  Sports

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