AltWeeklies Wire
Bad LGBT Parents? Bad UT study, audit findsnew
Are kids raised by gay and lesbian couples bound to struggle more in life than those raised by straight parents?
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
08-02-2012 |
LGBT
Bad Breaks: 'Bad Breaks'new
Bad Breaks really captures my attention at the moment of transition into "Seppuku," the album's second (and best) song.
San Antonio Current |
James Courtney |
08-02-2012 |
Reviews
Iran - Because Two Wars Aren't Enough
Year after year, on one foreign crisis after another, American presidents repeatedly state some variation on the theme that war is always an option, that the military option is always on the table. You've heard that line so often that you take it for granted. But did you know that "keeping the military option on the table" is a serious violation of international law?
Mötley Crüe: Never too old to rock 'n' rollnew
You're only as old as the bands you feel, and when one of those bands wrote a song called "Dr. Feelgood," well, that's a clue, isn't it?
San Antonio Current |
Leonard Pierce |
08-02-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Sugar, spice, and gender coalesce in trio of bilingual kids' booksnew
I have a surprise for you, I tell my four-year-old daughter when I pick her up from preschool. Three surprises, actually.
San Antonio Current |
Marisol Cortez |
08-02-2012 |
Fiction
Season 5 of 'Breaking Bad' delivers the monster insidenew
I hope you’re not letting the Olympics distract you from Breaking Bad’s final season.
San Antonio Current |
Dean Robbins |
08-02-2012 |
TV
Stifling Growthnew
Spending cuts and privatization have ravaged the economy.
Charleston City Paper |
Mat Catastrophe |
08-02-2012 |
Commentary
Tags: economy
Safety Not Guaranteed raises low-key and worthwhile questionsnew
Can someone who is very serious about something laughably eccentric be treated with respect? How far can a movie dissociate itself from its plot's reason for existing and remain honest?
Freddie Mercury's swagger remains powerful 20 years after his passingnew
In her well researched, carefully crafted book Mercury: An Intimate Biography of Freddie Mercury, British music journalist and author Lesley-Ann Jones shines light on some of the more private moments of late rock singer Freddie Mercury's life.
Charleston City Paper |
T. Ballard Lesemann |
08-02-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Some like it hot
I moved to Louisiana in August 1988 from the coastal, watercolor world of Long Island, where cross breezes from the Atlantic and the Long Island Sound swept the summer heat into a bearable scirocco that smelled, always, faintly of the sea.
YES! Weekly |
Brian Clarey |
08-02-2012 |
Commentary
Tags: new orleans
Dream back onnew
Aerosmith rises from the ashes of American Idol
Colorado Springs Independent |
Tom Lanham |
08-02-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Steve Tyler, Aerosmith
Oulipo's Primitive Waysnew
Primitive Ways sounds like the next step of an almost great band, drunk on possibilities but still learning how to present them.
Inside the Abortion Clinic Battlenew
The legal battle concerning the Jackson Women's Health Center.
Jackson Free Press |
R.L. Nave |
08-02-2012 |
The War on Women
Beasts of the Northern Wildnew
A field guide to Cleveland's alarming, alluring summer animalia.
Cleveland Scene |
Kyle Swenson and Vince Grzegorek |
08-02-2012 |
Animal Issues
No Eyes' No Eyesnew
No Eyes' self-titled EP is like a Texas psych-rockin' longhair in the midst of getting his mop snipped into a neat London bowl, but some loose ends still await their trim.
