AltWeeklies Wire
Juliana Hatfield is Jung at Heartnew
With the release of In Exile Deo, Hatfield has positioned herself as a mature singer-songwriter/bandleader committed to navigating her own artistic path.
Boston Phoenix |
Matt Ashare |
08-07-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: In Exile Deo, Juliana Hatfield
Transgendered Community Struggles to Overcome Stereotypes
Gender reassignment surgery used to be covered under the provincial health plan. But the government cut funding just as Michelle Anderson was halfway through. Now, she and other transgendered activists are working to promote trans acceptance in the community at large
Monday Magazine |
Sarah Petrescu |
08-07-2004 |
LGBT
Canada Immigration to Recognize Same-Sex Marriage
Activists are thrilled that Canada's immigration policy now allows citizens and permanent residents to sponsor their same-sex spouses.
Monday Magazine |
Adrienne Mercer |
08-07-2004 |
LGBT
High-Tech Military Gigs Are All the Rage Againnew
Back in the Reagan era, the tens of thousands of engineers who got sucked into corporations with big military contracts called it "the defense industry," but today's police-state teenyboppers are calling it "the security industry."
Metro Silicon Valley |
Annalee Newitz |
08-07-2004 |
Commentary
Haiku News Writer Tells All in Seventeen Syllablesnew
For those with little time to read a newspaper, NUVO's managing editor summarizes the news in haiku like this one: we have been assured/by Diebold that every/GOP vote counts.
NUVO |
Jim Poyser |
08-07-2004 |
Commentary
Vanity Fair Chief's Acceptance of Payment for Film Tip Was Benignnew
Vanity Fair chief Graydon Carter has, in my opinion, turned a little nutty in the past two years, with the usual throwaway editor's note becoming home to Noam Chomsky-like screeds about the Bush administration, but he's not a crook.
New York Press |
Russ Smith |
08-07-2004 |
Media
What People in Spain Are Saying about Iraqnew
The torture at Abu Ghraib prison reminded a contributor to the International Herald Tribune of the sight of white people laughing in old photos of American lynchings and a writer in El Pais of "young, strong, jolly" German soldiers having their way with naked Jews.
Chicago Reader |
Michael Miner |
08-07-2004 |
Media
Video Games Based on Real Characters Star at Exponew
The CEO of Royal Nonesuch Games doesn't think Mekong Delta or Death creates an unflattering portrait of John Kerry. “With each Viet Cong he kills, with each village he burns, with each scalp he takes as a souvenir, in my mind, that’s a new voter who has been won over.”
Tags: humor & satire
Bukowski Film is "Write On"new
The new Bukowski film isn't just another slumming poet pic.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Dennis Harvey |
08-07-2004 |
Reviews
Nassau County Dumps Trash on a Public Beachnew
The county is using one of its public beaches as an illegal landfill. File cabinets, old auto parts, rusty oil drums, and home appliances are piled ten feet high behind massive walls of sand, apparently created to disguise the trash behind them.
Long Island Press |
Christopher Twarowski |
08-07-2004 |
Environment
Frost Previews Best and Worst Summer TV Comedies
If comedy on TV is dying, it’s because of life-sucking yuk vacuums like "Come to Papa," the Peacock network’s lone scripted offering in a deceptively-marketed New! Summer! Season! full of the usual cheap-o reality programming.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Bill Frost |
08-07-2004 |
TV
"Raising Helen" Raises No Eyebrowsnew
While the direction, camerawork, editing, music and script are bland, there are pleasures in some of the performances from what must be the nicest cast ever assembled.
Small-Town Residents Come to Embrace Reporter's Troubling Insightsnew
After four teens were arrested for the bludgeoning death of a blind albino man in Cass Lake, Minn., Star Tribune reporter Larry Oakes returned to the town where he grew up to examine the youth crisis at the Leech Lake Reservation.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Mike Mosedale |
08-07-2004 |
Media
Tags: addiction, violence, journalism, media, Drugs, poverty, alcohol, Ojibwe, single-parent families, tribal leaders
Who Would Jesus Sue?new
The Liberty Counsel, the "in-house" law firm for conservative, right-wing causes, is active nationwide trying to stop the legalization of gay marriage.
Orlando Weekly |
Jeffrey C. Billman |
08-07-2004 |
Policy Issues
"Baltimore" Exhibit Comes to Baltimorenew
Isaac Julien's "Baltimore" installation brings great blacks to the Walters Museum and "Sweet Sweetback's" Melvin Van Peebles back to the streets.
Baltimore City Paper |
Eric Allen Hatch |
08-07-2004 |
Art
