AltWeeklies Wire
The 14th Annual Muzzle Awardsnew
An annual look at the dishonorable enemies of free speech and personal liberty in New England.
Boston Phoenix |
Dan Kennedy |
06-30-2011 |
Civil Liberties
The Truth Behind Sex Traffickingnew
Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore are the public face of an effort to stop underage trafficking. But the underage-prostitution panic is based on a scientific study that was anything but scientific.
The Village Voice |
Martin Cizmar, Ellis Conklin and Kristen Hinman |
06-30-2011 |
Crime & Justice
Colorado Springs Studies Medical Marijuana Feesnew
It wouldn't be medical marijuana in Colorado Springs if the city and the industry immediately saw eye-to-eye on something.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Bryce Crawford |
06-30-2011 |
Drugs
Shots in the Darknew
Prosecutors allowed Jamelle Swanson’s killer to walk. Swanson’s sister isn’t going so quietly.
Cleveland Scene |
Kyle Swenson |
06-29-2011 |
Crime & Justice
Artist Wesley Harvey on Homoeroticism, Dinnerware, and Bunniesnew
In the last two years, locally-based ceramic artist Wesley Harvey — who hails from Van Buren, Ind., the “popcorn capital of the world,” and has work in the permanent collections of the Shanghai Museum of Arts & Crafts and the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction — has made a splash by exhibiting (and selling quite a bit of) china and porcelain adorned with decals made by appropriating raunchy drawings by Touko Laaksonen (better known as Tom of Finland) that take gay male sex fantasies to a place that’s larger-than-life, giving the gay art collector the perfect excuse to throw a dinner party with a happy ending.
San Antonio Current |
Bryan Rindfuss |
06-29-2011 |
LGBT
Tags: Wesley Harvey
Preteen Lightning Rod to Lead San Antonio’s Gay Pride Paradenew
A simple act of classroom disobedience turned 11-year-old Will Phillips into one of the country’s youngest — and targeted — gay-rights advocates.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
06-29-2011 |
LGBT
Tags: Gay Rights, Will Phillips
Time (and Public Opinion) is on the Side of Equality in Texasnew
At the start of this year’s legislative session, LGBT groups braced themselves for a bumpy ride. With an overwhelming Republican majority in the House and the Senate’s conservative edge, advocates knew prospects weren’t rosy.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas & Greg Harman |
06-29-2011 |
LGBT
Tags: Gay Rights in Texas
On Coming Out and Staying Strong in a Not-Always-Welcoming Culturenew
The queer subculture that exists within San Antonio and other heavily concentrated Latino communities maintains itself despite cultural stigmas associated with being gay.
San Antonio Current |
Christine Garza |
06-29-2011 |
LGBT
Oakland's Dirty Hotelnew
How the Jack London Inn came to be called one of America's filthiest hotels.
East Bay Express |
Andrew Jones |
06-29-2011 |
Housing & Development
Tags: Jack London Inn
Can Journalism Survive the Newspaper’s Tribulations?new
The Chicago Tribune, "The Deal From Hell," and the uncertain future of print journalism.
Chicago Newcity |
Brian Hieggelke |
06-29-2011 |
Media
Georgia Farm Labor Plan Recalls Convict Leasingnew
Georgia has a shameful legacy of exploiting agricultural workers.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Laura Emiko Soltis |
06-29-2011 |
Policy Issues
Deals Du Journew
Groupon, Living Social and the other daily-deal sites: Good or bad for business?
Gambit |
Lauren LaBorde |
06-28-2011 |
Business & Labor
How Republicans Paved the Way to Obamacarenew
One of the key litmus tests that has emerged in the past couple of years among Republicans is how passionately they can denounce President Obama's health reform law.
Fairfield County Weekly |
Doug Daniels |
06-28-2011 |
Policy Issues
Brave New Book
The United States is a police state and it's too late to restore democracy.
Maui Time |
Ted Rall |
06-28-2011 |
Civil Liberties
Tags: Andrew kolin
Chuck Philips vs. L.A. Timesnew
Former Los Angeles Times investigative reporter Chuck Philips, whose career was ruined when the Times published a rare front-page retraction of his March 17, 2008, article about the infamous 1994 shooting of rapper Tupac Shakur, is demanding that the newspaper apologize and take back its retraction of his story, “An Attack on Tupac Shakur Launched a Hip-Hop War.”
L.A. Weekly |
Simone Wilson and Dennis Romero |
06-27-2011 |
Media
