AltWeeklies Wire
Slick Fictionnew
This holiday season, it may well be time to stroke your indulgences and remember that you are indeed the only living thing that matters in this world.
Orlando Weekly |
Billy Manes |
11-15-2007 |
Comedy
Tags: humor & satire
Wanting That Green Glownew
This year I want green gifts. I want items that can help me reduce my impact on the environment. But much like eating vegetarian comes with a higher price tag, so does saving the world.
Orlando Weekly |
Deanna Sheffield |
11-15-2007 |
Shopping
Tags: shopping
Screw China!new
The reason I'm going China-free this holiday season is Wal-Mart. The mega-retailer's relentless, cutthroat push to the bottom is killing our economy like a two-pack-a-day habit. Wal-Mart gets approximately 97 percent of the junk they sell from China, so buying there is un-American.
Orlando Weekly |
Bob Whitby |
11-15-2007 |
Shopping
Tags: shopping
A Few Good Specimensnew
Without hobbies, one goes insane. To stave off the inevitable madness for another year, in early 2007 I took up the idea of building a cabinet of curiosities, a hobby with a long and glorious tradition.
Orlando Weekly |
Ian Monroe |
11-15-2007 |
Recreation
Tags: recreation
Love and Skittlesnew
Learning an important lesson when son's birthmom comes for a visit.
Illinois Times |
Dusty Rhodes |
11-15-2007 |
Commentary
My Boozy Christmasnew
For Christmas, all we really want is booze. Here are some gift ideas for the alcoholically-inclined.
Orlando Weekly |
Jeffrey C. Billman |
11-15-2007 |
Food+Drink
Wineau: Zin's Frontier Rootsnew
Old vines in the California's Sierra Foothills produce intoxicating winners.
East Bay Express |
Blair Campbell |
11-15-2007 |
Food+Drink
Slacker Guys and Striver Girlsnew
When lazy men become projects for career women.
Dear Diarynew
Portlanders get ready for the first staging of Mortified, a live show in which local citizens read the most hilarious, humiliating things they wrote as teenagers -- journal entries, poetry, love letters and song lyrics.
Willamette Week |
Aaron Mesh |
11-14-2007 |
Performance
Tags: performance
The Orange Box: Worth the Moneynew
This may be the best deal in video games since Wii Sports: Five games that could've easily been sold in at least three different $60 packages bundled together with no crappy filler. Table Tennis also reviewed.
San Antonio Current |
Jeremy Martin |
11-14-2007 |
Video Games
Tags: video games
Value Vinonew
Sipping into the holidays with champagne tastes and a beer budget.
San Antonio Current |
Ron Bechtol |
11-14-2007 |
Food+Drink
A Seltzer Addict's Lamentnew
I'll admit it: I'm an addict. My friend calls it liquid crack, and I personally have a 12-can-a-day habit.
San Antonio Current |
Burgin Streetman |
11-14-2007 |
Food+Drink
Freedom Fighters Want a Dictator to Touch Your Underwearnew
Women of the world, relinquish your panties! They're needed in the fight for freedom in Myanmar.
San Diego CityBeat |
D.A. Kolodenko |
11-14-2007 |
Fashion
Tags: fashion
Trendzilla: Sarah Jessica Parker's Good Sidenew
SJP's fairly young and totally affordable line, Bitten, is modeled after the real woman.
Tags: fashion
Agritourism Links Wineries and Rural Protectionsnew
Agritourism is good business, and it's a good way to keep Albemarle County's views lush and uncluttered.
C-Ville Weekly |
Cathy Harding |
11-14-2007 |
Food+Drink