AltWeeklies Wire
Young Stroke Victim Fights Her Way Backnew
While Sarah Kucharski focused on a looming deadline as special projects editor for Waynesville’s Smoky Mountain News, a blood clot in her brain stem was about to change her life forever.
Mountain Xpress |
Caitlin Byrd |
05-24-2012 |
Health
Times-Picayune Employees in Shock as Extent of Cuts Emergesnew
Employees of The Times-Picayune gathered to collectively absorb the shock of a New York Times report that the paper is about to undergo a massive restructuring that will leave New Orleans without a daily published newspaper.
Charter Schools Rock?new
Mississippi lawmakers' reticence to give charter schools a straight up-down vote may have a lot to do with the fact that most people don't have the vaguest inkling what the hell a charter school is.
Jackson Free Press |
R.L. Nave |
05-23-2012 |
Education
A Smattering of NATO Protest Missed Connectionsnew
"You were the hot cop who put me in flexcuffs.....maybe we can do it privately?"
Chicago Reader |
Sam Worley |
05-21-2012 |
Sex
'The Saddest Aquarium on Earth'new
'I was a tourist in Seal Guantanamo,' and other tales of the Morro Bay Aquarium.
San Luis Obispo New Times |
Colin Rigley |
05-18-2012 |
Animal Issues
Another Cops-Beating-Homeless-Man Storynew
It isn't just the Kelly Thomas killing in which cops believe they have the right to execute a citizen during a scuffle.
OC Weekly |
R. Scott Moxley |
05-18-2012 |
Crime & Justice
Unzippednew
For years, political gadfly Seth Brigham got away with being a persistent, even belligerent, bug in the ears of Boulder city council. But he didn't get slapped with a restraining order until he started nosing around the undisclosed financial ties of city council members.
Boulder Weekly |
Jeeferson Dodge and Joel Dyer |
05-18-2012 |
Civil Liberties
The President Comes Outnew
Obama could hurt or help the cause of marriage equality in the Bible Belt.
Charleston City Paper |
Paul Bowers |
05-17-2012 |
LGBT
After Amendment 1, local governments weigh health insurance optionsnew
In the Triangle, where more than 60 percent of voters filled in the oval "against" the amendment, a number of progressive local governments offer domestic partner benefits, a practice that presumably will be illegal under the state constitution on Jan. 1, 2013. So what's next?
More than a feelingnew
Whenever civil unions are passed, gay people will enjoy real change -- but not yet.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Chet Hardin |
05-17-2012 |
LGBT
Chickens, Breasts, and Cancer: Discussnew
Gross: Do chickens get breast cancer tumors? Grosser: Can you catch cancer from eating chicken breast tumors? New subject: how about that phantom electricity?
San Diego Reader |
Matthew Alice |
05-16-2012 |
Health
'I will burn down fucking The Village Voice headquarters if you fucking write anything'new
Hunter Moore said he would set fire to the Voice's office if I wrote this. Actually, the 26-year-old's exact words were, "Honestly, I will be fucking furious, and I will burn down fucking The Village Voice headquarters if you fucking write anything saying I have an FBI investigation."
The Village Voice |
Camille Dodero |
05-16-2012 |
Features
Same-Sex Sillinessnew
In 100 days, the lovely Mrs. Shabazz and I will celebrate our third wedding anniversary. Like most married couples, we look forward to it.
Sluts of America, Arise!
"The Ethical Slut" says it's OKAY to be slutty. "The Monogamy Gap" goes further. It states loudly, brashly—and mostly convincingly—that while monogamy is right for some people, it's wrong for most. Which makes monogamism a form of bigotry not only based on a lie, but like other forms of discrimination, downright bad for soci
Tags: sexual freedom, politics of sex
The Power of Marriagenew
How a gay union saved David Gonzales from deportation.
The Texas Observer |
Emily DePrang |
05-15-2012 |
LGBT
Tags: Immigration, Gay marriage
