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Vote for John Kerrynew
The country is facing challenging problems. They're not for the so-so student in the class. They're not for a simpleton. They're not for George Bush.
Nashville Scene |
Nashville Scene |
10-25-2004 |
Commentary
Tags: endorsement
Doc Is Devoted to Queer Healthnew
Toronto doctor Keith Loukes knew long before he finished medical school that there was a need for practitioners specializing in the care of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. But it wasn't until he started hosting his own phone-advice program that he realized just how desperate for health information members of the queer community were.
The Georgia Straight |
Gail Johnson |
10-25-2004 |
Science
Vote Kerry: Our Future Depends on Itnew
Though born to privilege, like George W. Bush, John Kerry has avoided the greed, the arrogance, the self-centeredness that afflict Bush and many of his wealthy cronies.
Arkansas Times |
Arkansas Times staff |
10-25-2004 |
Commentary
Endorsement: John Kerrynew
If John Kerry is elected president, Europe will remember the reasons we were once allies. The Third World will believe the dream. We won't be alone and afraid with all our possessions.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Tim Whitaker |
10-25-2004 |
Commentary
Tags: endorsement
Southern Dexteritynew
Whether as an author, editor, anthropologist or chowhound, John T. Edge looks at food from every angle.
Gambit |
Sara Roahen |
10-25-2004 |
Food+Drink
Family Albumnew
The photograph collectors depicted in the new documentary Other People's Pictures seem to be trying to recapture the human touch.
The Lady in Graynew
The cross-dressing Confederate soldier Loreta Janeta Velazquez, aka Lt. Harry Buford, is receiving renewed attention from historians and is the subject of an upcoming documentary.
Hail to the Drama Queennew
Annette Bening brings down the house as an aging star unwilling to fade.
East Bay Express |
Bill Gallo |
10-25-2004 |
Reviews
Opera Litenew
This paranoid, semicomic portrait of a man who has sold his soul to Big Business is pretty weak stuff in light of what Ken Lay and Company have wrought.
East Bay Express |
Bill Gallo |
10-25-2004 |
Reviews
Is Medical Marijuana Advocate a Witch-Hunt Victim or a Shoddy Doc?new
Dr. Tod Mikuriya has recommended cannabis more than 10,000 times since California voters approved Proposition 215 in 1996. But a judge determined that he was negligent for not sufficently examining his patients.
East Bay Express |
Robert Gammon |
10-25-2004 |
Science
Gang Member Named Lizard Serves as a Rat for the FBInew
The exploits of Daniel "Lizard" Hernandez, a high-ranking member of Nuestra Familia who became a snitch for the FBI, show how prison policies adopted to control gangs may actually have helped them bloom.
East Bay Express |
Justin Berton |
10-25-2004 |
Crime & Justice
Secrets and Liesnew
With his latest film, Mike Leigh skirts a new, dangerous arena -- the morality play. The movie is about family and the differences between the happy and sad varieties. But the story involves a woman who performs illegal abortions.
Dallas Observer |
Melissa Levine |
10-25-2004 |
Reviews
Blessed Are the Cheesemakersnew
In 2004 A.D., as the five remaining members of the legendary Monty Python comedy troupe lie in coffins in a Vanity Fair spread to jeer at their own deaths, it's really nice to have them back together commanding the big screen.
Cleveland Scene |
Gregory Weinkauf |
10-25-2004 |
Reviews
Beating the Bushnew
Hijacking Catastrophe compares Bush to a Nazi. That's a brazen move, fitting for a documentary that promotes fearlessness as the ultimate act of citizenship. It's also melodramatic.
Cleveland Scene |
Melissa Levine |
10-25-2004 |
Reviews
Killing You Slowlynew
Filmmaker Jim Van Bebber's latest low-rent foray into sex, drugs, and ultraviolence hasn't got a laugh in it -- unless some twisted wackos out there find amusement in the dismemberment of Sharon Tate.
Cleveland Scene |
Bill Gallo |
10-25-2004 |
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