AltWeeklies Wire
Oakland is Dyke Centralnew
A new television project celebrates Oakland's diverse lesbian community.
East Bay Express |
Cassie Harwood |
10-05-2011 |
LGBT
Tags: Arnetta Smith, Dyke Central
Biggie Smalls Murder Confession: Voletta Wallace's Attorney Still Has Questionsnew
A couple weeks ago, ex-LAPD detective Greg Kading says he handed Voletta Wallace, mother of Biggie Smalls, a copy of his new book, Murder Rap, in which Kading reveals never-before-seen evidence implicating Suge Knight in the death of her son.
L.A. Weekly |
Chris Vogel |
10-05-2011 |
Crime & Justice
Tony Smith's Visionnew
Oakland's superintendent doesn't just want to close schools. He wants to radically alter how the school district and the city educate kids.
East Bay Express |
Micky Duxbury |
10-05-2011 |
Education
Wake Up, Chicago Teachers Unionnew
Mayor Rahm Emanuel has changed the rules—and you need to get in the game.
Chicago Reader |
Ben Joravsky |
10-04-2011 |
Business & Labor
Occupy Philly Says the Anti-Big-Bank Revolution is Comingnew
Neither pepper spray nor mass arrests have put a halt to Occupy Wall Street—if anything, it’s galvanized and intensified the 2-week-old movement. But if you think New Yorkers are pissed off, just wait until Philadelphia, the original cradle of the revolution, shows the world how it fights the power.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Michael Alan Goldberg |
10-03-2011 |
Business & Labor
The Attack on Gay-Positive Education in Torontonew
A flyer suggests that the Toronto District School Board's anti-homophobia curriculum encourages "cross dressing for six year-olds."
NOW Magazine |
Enzo Di Matteo |
10-03-2011 |
LGBT
The Worst-Kept Secretsnew
What the major media left out: Project Censored highlights the year's most relevant ignored news.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Rebecca Bowe |
10-03-2011 |
Media
Calif. Governor Signs Bill That Heads Off Ban on Circumcisionsnew
The controversy over male circumcisions have officially been nipped in the bud. Governor Jerry Brown on Sunday signed off on a new law that puts the kibosh local cities and counties to criminalize circumcision for males younger than 18.
Porn Defends the Money Shotnew
Critics gain ground, demanding condom use to control AIDS.
L.A. Weekly |
Dennis Romero |
10-03-2011 |
Sex
Soldier Comes Home on a Special Missionnew
U.S. Army Sgt. Sean Ambriz returned home to Redondo Beach from Afghanistan on a two week “R & R” leave last week. But he wasn’t there only to rest and relax: he was a man on a mission.
Easy Reader |
Mark McDermott |
10-03-2011 |
War
Tags: Afganistan, Sean Ambriz
Death Metal: Uranium Mining May Start in Oregonnew
Like gold mining, uranium mining falls under the aegis of the 1872 General Mining Law that considers hardrock mining the highest and best use of the public’s land. When it comes to the General Mining Law the issue is usually not whether there will be a mine, but how bad the mine will be.
Eugene Weekly |
Camilla Mortensen |
09-29-2011 |
Environment
The Evolution of John McKaynew
How a Republican aristocrat turned into a marijuana activist.
Seattle Weekly |
Nina Shapiro |
09-29-2011 |
Drugs
Road to Extraditionnew
Every year in Miami, dozens of murderers, smugglers and rapists flee to their homelands.
Miami New Times |
Tim Elfrink |
09-29-2011 |
International
Charleston-based Water Missions International Fights Cholera and Corruption in Haitinew
For people living in certain villages and small towns in Haiti, few things are more reassuring than the bitter, gripping taste of chlorine in a glass of water. Indeed, the more their drinking water tastes like a swimming pool, the better.
Charleston City Paper |
Joshua Curry and Paul Bowers |
09-29-2011 |
Policy Issues
School Closures Make Sensenew
Oakland Unified won't be able to solve its problems until its shutters small schools that it can no longer afford.
East Bay Express |
Robert Gammon |
09-29-2011 |
Education
