AltWeeklies Wire
Spiritual Crisis Falls Flat in Unconvincing Satirenew
Beware the exclamation point. When found at the end of a title, it almost inevitably signals a level of self-hype rarely justified by the content of whatever it hopes to name.
East Bay Express |
Melissa Levine |
05-26-2004 |
Reviews
How Old Are You Now, Dan Savage?new
Stranger Editor Dan Savage, who turns 40 on Oct. 7, might be taking that
adage "you're only as old as you feel" a little too literally. This month
found the potty-mouthed purveyor of sex advice low-balling his age to
Seattle Post-Intelligencer reporter Mike Lewis. (Third item)
Seattle Weekly |
Mark D. Fefer |
05-26-2004 |
Media
Tags: media
Called to Duty, Columnist Reflects on What He Wants to Juryatenew
Being put on Martha Stewart's retrial wouldn’t be so bad. Be some kind of kick to hold her fate in my hands while I’m wearing a stripes/polka dot mix, eh?
Boise Weekly |
Bill Cope |
05-25-2004 |
Comedy
Cleveland Fusion Proves Playing Football Is Not Just for Mennew
The rough-and-tumble sport of football appeals to enough women that the National Women's Football League has grown from two teams to 37 since its first season in 2000. Posters that feature defensive backs wearing sports bras and lace-up spandex pants are drawing more men to the games.
Cleveland Scene |
Rebecca Meiser |
05-24-2004 |
Sports
Piedmont Blues of Maryland Released on Folkway Recordsnew
Born from both country and gospel, between bluegrass and R&B, the Piedmont blues of Maryland's Warner Williams and Jay Summerour finds a home on Blues Highway.
Baltimore City Paper |
Sam Hopkins |
05-24-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
The Chef Frolics in the Fungal Jungle Looking for Morelsnew
Ari goes on a hunt with Black Dog, whose T shirt reads, "Anyone foolish enough to ask a morel plucker where he got his morels is foolish enough to believe the answer."
Missoula Independent |
Chef Boy Ari |
05-21-2004 |
Food+Drink
Fox Television Show Employs Bogus Doctornew
On May 14, the muckraking Web site the Smoking Gun (thesmokinggun.com) reported that the Fox reality show "The Swan" employs a doctor who really ain’t a doctor.
Tags: TV
McDonald's Documentary Puts Director in Perilnew
A man eats fast food for a month -- guess what happens.
Cleveland Scene |
Robert Wilonsky |
05-21-2004 |
Reviews
Secondhand Smoke: Spilling the Beans in 11 Chatty Skitsnew
Perhaps a trifling gag gift like Coffee and Cigarettes is the price we pay for Jarmusch's redoubtable presence; think of your 10-spot, if you're so inclined, as a tithe to his next real film.
The Village Voice |
Michael Atkinson |
05-21-2004 |
Reviews
Best Stress Aids Include Herbs and Swearing on Secluded Beach
A gimmick junkie and anti-stress insurgent evaluates the benefits of anti-stress aids from aromatherapy to splitting wood.
Monday Magazine |
Sarah Petrescu |
05-19-2004 |
Science
Effects of Stress Can Be Painful
Stress is easy to have, hard to diagnose, and often treated with holistic methods.
Monday Magazine |
Adrienne Mercer |
05-19-2004 |
Science
Tags: Drugs, acupuncture, alcohol, vitamins, caffeine, diet, minerals, emotions, naturopathic, tobacco, Health & Science
Story of Buchanan Baby Helped Bush Win White Housenew
During the 2000 presidential campaign, longtime Republican dirty-tricks operative Roger Stone pushed an unsubstantiated rumor that Reform Party candidate Patrick Buchanan had had an illegitimate child while he was a Georgetown undergraduate and had paid the mother to keep it secret.
The Village Voice |
Wayne Barrett and Jessie Singer |
05-19-2004 |
Politics
Allegations at Guantanamo Linked to Abu Ghraib Abusesnew
Two former inmates at Guantánamo Bay have said that they were either subjected to or witnessed some of the same methods of harsh interrogation seen in pictures taken at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
The Village Voice |
Kareem Fahim |
05-19-2004 |
International
Abu Ghraib Raises Question of "Moral Extraterritoriality"new
It was Dostoyevsky who said you can judge a society by its prisons. It is how Saddam was judged, and it is sadly now how many around the world will judge the U.S.
The Village Voice |
Ted Gup |
05-19-2004 |
Commentary
A Lesbian Writes to the Governor of Massachusettsnew
"If you had to lose a culture war, governor, this was a good one to pick," Laura Conaway writes to Governor Mitt Romney, who she says took the wrong side on the debate over state-sanctioned gay marriage.
The Village Voice |
Laura Conaway |
05-19-2004 |
LGBT
