AltWeeklies Wire
Summer Sippersnew
Put down that crummy Corona and get with these low-ABV craft beers for summertime.
North Bay Bohemian |
Ken Weaver |
07-06-2012 |
Food+Drink
Tags: Summertime Beers
The Reluctant Super Sonidonew
After amassing a huge collection of rare Latin music, Joe Franko rendered himself a de facto ambassador.
East Bay Express |
Rachel Swan |
07-06-2012 |
Music
Tags: Latin Music
To Rome with Lovenew
There's too little Rome and too much love in Woody Allen's mediocre follow-up to Midnight in Paris
Orlando Weekly |
William Goss |
07-06-2012 |
Reviews
Extreme Heat: The New Normalnew
Extreme heat and minimal-to-nonexistent rain are killing crops and livestock around Indiana. Other likelihoods: Higher food costs, reservoir restrictions and the rippling economic pinch.
NUVO |
Rebecca Townsend |
07-06-2012 |
Environment
Ron Young: 'Under the Texas Radar'new
Thirty-eight years after making finalist at the Kerrville Folk Festival, Young releases his debut recording featuring an eclectic batch of lighthearted, oft-heartbroken country songs.
San Antonio Current |
Chris Parker |
07-06-2012 |
Reviews
With a new drummer, Dream Theater still deliversnew
John Petrucci knows plenty of Dream Theater fans will view the title of the group's latest album, A Dramatic Turn of Events, as directly related to the major change in the band that preceded the new recording.
San Antonio Current |
Alan Sculley |
07-06-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Fighting Dirtynew
Massachusetts voters are about to get an up-close look at the right-wing smear machine.
Boston Phoenix |
David S. Bernstein |
07-06-2012 |
Elections
Radcliffe Bailey searches for life beyond the Middle Passagenew
Wrenching percussive sounds, like something very large breaking up, emanate from a conch shell. The gratings of a ship ripped by an ocean storm, perhaps.
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
07-06-2012 |
Art
The Amazing Spider-Mannew
Marvel reboot fails to improve on much of anything.
Orlando Weekly |
William Goss |
07-06-2012 |
Reviews
Inside the Nightmarenew
Dispatches from firefighters and officials create a haunting account of how the Waldo Canyon Fire happened.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Pam Zubeck |
07-06-2012 |
Disasters
Tags: Waldo Canyon Fire
Sick of Itnew
Florida activists race against time to get question on the ballot that will let voters decide whether businesses should have to offer paid sick leave to employees.
Orlando Weekly |
Billy Manes |
07-06-2012 |
Health
Tags: Health
Black Like Me?new
How I came to find myself somewhere between 'Love & Hip Hop'
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Rodney Carmichael |
07-06-2012 |
Race & Class
Legal Experts Dispute 'Tortured' Reading of Abortion Lawnew
The Virginia Board of Health ignored legal advice from the state attorney general's office when it exempted existing abortion clinics from tough new regulations pushed by pro-life advocates.
The American Independent News Network |
Reilly Moore |
07-06-2012 |
Policy Issues
What Next for Occupy?
It's less important to guess whether Occupy has a future than to examine how a movement with widespread public support from left and right alike devolved from nearly 2000 public encampments to its current situation: marginalization and cooption.
