AltWeeklies Wire
Maximizing Me!new
The fledgling field of Life Coaching has come to Montana. Our intrepid reporter takes a long look in the mirror and wonders: Is she being all that she can be?
Missoula Independent |
Robin Troy |
08-12-2004 |
Science
Design for Living: Affordable Housing Doesn't Have to Be Uglynew
Though the public image of affordable housing is still horrendous high-rises, a quiet revolution among architects is creating some affordable housing that those with money would want to live in.
Mann Is Still the Man
This is how a movie about assassins should be: dark, impersonal, loud like a gunshot and full of palpable dread.
Boise Weekly |
Nicholas Collias |
08-12-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Michael Mann, Collateral
What Some Black Women Don't Know About Their Mennew
Black men who have sex with men but still identify as straight instead of gay or bisexual are known as "down low." By definition, these men do not tell their wives and girlfriends that they are sleeping around, a health risk because, studies suggest, 30 percent of such men are carriers of HIV.
Baltimore City Paper |
Christina Royster-Hemby |
08-11-2004 |
Sex
Ghosts in the Machines: Online Selves Don't Dienew
Few people make it known how their online presence should be handled after death, nor how their virtual friends should be notified. On the Web, oceans of data are being left behind by the dead.
Baltimore City Paper |
Ryan Boddy |
08-11-2004 |
Science
Earth Daze: Prose for the Planetnew
Naked offers a hopeful antidote to boring travel writing: a wide assortment of nonfiction, memoirs, short stories, essays and excerpted correspondence in which the environment is not just a setting but a character with dialogue.
L.A. Weekly |
Joshuah Bearman |
08-11-2004 |
Nonfiction
Bush League: Hiding the Threats That Do Existnew
This week's media roundup of articles critical of George W. Bush includes an In These Times story about Bushie lies and an article by The Independent's Robert Fisk that says troubles in Iraq are greater than the U.S. and British governments will admit.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Bill O'Driscoll |
08-11-2004 |
Politics
Organize Locally, Annoy Globallynew
At protests across the U.S., members of the Worldwide Street Preachers Fellowship target gays, Christians, women and liberals with signs worthy of Fred "God Hates Fags" Phelps. And, when arrested, they successfully sue cities for violating their First Amendment rights.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Marty Levine |
08-10-2004 |
Civil Liberties
Photos Spur News Media to Change from Chroniclers to Diggersnew
The horrors at Abu Ghraib have finally changed how the media report on the war — and on the president who started it. George W. Bush could be in for some of the rough treatment that generally goes with the job.
Boston Phoenix |
Dan Kennedy |
08-07-2004 |
Media
Fast-Food Documentary Shows Dark Side of Deliciousnessnew
The popular, excellent documentary "Super Size Me" is waddling across the country.
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
08-07-2004 |
Reviews
Prison Abuse Is Closer to Home Than Abu Ghraibnew
Many Americans who have found themselves on the wrong side of a cop's baton or a jailer's cell door recognize the cruelty and dehumanization depicted in those infamous images from Abu Ghraib prison.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Steven T. Jones |
08-07-2004 |
Politics
Serious Beach Books Could Ruin Your Tilapia Dinnernew
Marine researcher Richard Ellis inks out humanity's remarkably efficient depletion of marine life, be it plant, fish, or mammal. Ellis's book on the ocean is reviewed along with Russ Rymer's "American Beach," James Jones' "From Here to Eternity," Lisa Stocker's "P-Town Summer" and Charles Sprawson's "Haunts of the Black Masseur."
Baltimore City Paper |
Lee Gardner |
08-07-2004 |
Fiction
Private Contractors Played Key Role in Abuse of Iraqi Prisonersnew
Among those involved in the torture of prisoners at Abu Ghraib were private contractors - who may never be accountable for their acts.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
A.C. Thompson and Pratap Chatterjee |
08-07-2004 |
War
Vietnam War Was a Brilliant Idea Compared to Iraqi Messnew
Regardless of your theology, Bush Two is right indeed to point out that someday we will all be dead; what he left out is that thanks to his idiot policies and political cowardice, many of us are likely to be impoverished first.
Metro Times |
Jack Lessenberry |
08-07-2004 |
Commentary
Government's Assurances of Humane Treatment Can't Be Trustednew
Just last month, the Supreme Court heard three cases concerning the rights of "enemy combatants" being held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and in U.S. Naval brigs off the American coast. One issue at stake is whether the government -- specifically President Bush -- should be trusted to handle prisoners in an appropriate manner.
Boston Phoenix |
Harvey A. Silverglate and Carl Takei |
08-07-2004 |
Civil Liberties
