AltWeeklies Wire
Alt-Weekly Columnist Sledgehammers Home a Pointnew
According to Wayne Laugesen, columnist for Boulder Weekly, there are times when members of the press need to stop observing and start participating. As such, he smashed a bunch of hazardous antique windows.
Tags: media
The Bill for Alexandernew
The cost of educating kids with autism is high, and as the number of autism diagnoses skyrockets, schools and states are struggling to pay the tab. Second in a three-part series
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Rich Lord |
09-30-2004 |
Science
Cell Dividenew
In the wake of the Bush administration's refusal to fund stem-cell research, a California ballot measure proposes the biggest state-funded effort yet. Christian conservatives aren't the only ones who oppose the proposition.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Tali Woodward |
09-29-2004 |
Policy Issues
Che-Che-Che-Changesnew
This exercise in feel-good historical romanticism cannily exploits Che Guevara as icon by finding a quite legitimate context in which to ignore all the problematic aspects of his later life.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Dennis Harvey |
09-29-2004 |
Reviews
George W. Bush Ain't No Cowboynew
Liberals from both coasts and Europeans who derisively call Bush a "cowboy" foolishly insult not Bush, but one of America's prime ennobling myths. He hasn't the restraint, dignity or chivalry of a true cowboy.
The Village Voice |
Erik Baard |
09-29-2004 |
Politics
George W. Bush and the Press in the Age of Chaosnew
The real media scandal is not the inauthentic memos at CBS but the way big news companies have evolved so at times their behavior closely resembles that of the government bodies and private power centers they are supposed to be examining.
The Village Voice |
Sydney H. Schanberg |
09-29-2004 |
Media
Hip-Hop Generation Descends on Florida With Slam Bushnew
Slam Bush, a political action committee created by the League of Pissed-Off Voters, has created a video in which hip-hop artist Wordsworth debates with the virtual image of George W. Bush.
Miami New Times |
Mosi Reeves |
09-29-2004 |
Politics
John Kerry Comes to Life on Iraqnew
By challenging George W. Bush so clearly on the war in Iraq, John Kerry may be turning his boat right into the enemy. But he still is going to have to convey strength in some fashion. Bushistas believe Kerry cannot do so.
L.A. Weekly |
David Corn |
09-29-2004 |
Politics
The Outing: David Dreier and His Straight Hypocrisynew
San Gabriel Valley Congressman David Dreier is the latest target of a Web site campaign to expose closeted homosexual Republicans who oppose civil rights for gay people.
L.A. Weekly |
Doug Ireland |
09-29-2004 |
LGBT
Drew Barrymore Pops Her Political Cherrynew
Drew Barrymore admits that she was the kind of person who didn't know what the Electoral College was until she got invited to a rally encouraging young people to vote. Her documentary on her political self-education, The Best Place to Start, is showing on MTV.
L.A. Weekly |
Nikki Finke |
09-29-2004 |
TV
L.A. Stocks Up Food for Hotel Workers' Labor Actionnew
Nineteen Los Angeles elected officials, including Mayor Jim Hahn, are girding for a strike or lockout of hotel workers by gathering food to tide over employees during what could turn out to be a long period without pay.
L.A. Weekly |
Robert Greene |
09-29-2004 |
Business & Labor
Rocky Mountain National Park Gets Loved to Deathnew
Besieged by 3 million visitors a year and another 3 million polluting neighbors at its doorstep, Colorado's premier national park is a vanishing wilderness.
Westword |
Alan Prendergast |
09-29-2004 |
Environment
Tags: Colorado, environment, National Park Service, Wildlife, Colorado River, Bear Lake Road, climbing guide, Coalition of Concerned National Park Service Retirees, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Colorado's Fourteeners, elk herd, Enos Mills, Estes Park, Fort Collins or Boulder, George Wallace, Gerry Roach, Mark Magnuson, National Parks Conservation Association, natural resources, naturalist, nitrogen emissions, park biologist Karl Cordova, retirees, Rocky Mountains, RVs, U.S. Geological Survey ecologist Jill Baron
He Likes 'Like'new
NPR's language libertarian approves of a changing English while finding plenty to criticize in political doublespeak.
Seattle Weekly |
Mark D. Fefer |
09-29-2004 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
The New Psychedelic Classnew
While Ben Chasny, Joanna Newsom, and folks like Devendra Banhart and the band Sunburned Hand of the Man aren't asking the lyrical question, "Where have all the flowers gone?" there is a palpable spirit of '60s politics in their ethos.
Seattle Weekly |
Laura Cassidy |
09-29-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Censorship Begins at Homenew
Proudly incurious, the man in the White House appears to have convinced a slim majority of Americans that strength lies in knowing as little as possible. This is America's greatest "intelligence failure."
Seattle Weekly |
Knute Berger |
09-29-2004 |
Commentary
