AltWeeklies Wire
Medical Researchers Head Westwardnew
Stem cell restrictions could send Texas Medical Center researchers fleeing to California.
Houston Press |
Josh Harkinson |
05-24-2005 |
Science
Anti-Abortion Group Does Neighborhood Alertnew
Operation Rescue West dropped off fliers in a North Oakland neighborhood that proclaimed "Your neighbor...is a lesbian abortionist!"
East Bay Express |
Will Harper |
05-24-2005 |
Sex
Generation RXnew
When 20-year-old Luke Stone died of an accidental drug overdose, his parents realized the landscape of substance abuse had changed. Young people today are adrift in a sea of psychotropic pharmacology.
Dallas Observer |
Glenna Whitley |
05-24-2005 |
Science
Activists Combat Corporate Media With Alternativesnew
As newspapers lose readers and consumption of mainstream media continues to decline, independent media -- often run by volunteers -- is sprouting all over America.
Illinois Times |
Joan Villa |
05-23-2005 |
Media
Poking the White Underbellynew
Meet the Air America Radio personality that has Rush Limbaugh asking, "Has anyone heard of Rachel Maddow?"
Valley Advocate |
Andrew Varnon |
05-19-2005 |
Media
Heart of Darthness: Confessions of a Former Skywalkernew
While most girls her age were playing house, writer Cathy Resmer played Star Wars. When kids from her neighborhood acted out scenes from the movies, she was always Luke.
Seven Days |
Cathy Resmer |
05-19-2005 |
Media
The Man Behind the Self-Cleansing Filmnew
Meet the Utah-based head of CleanFlicks.com: the man who claims to have started the whole DVD-sanitization craze among various Values Belt boobs.
Dig Boston |
Chris Faraone |
05-19-2005 |
Media
Newsweek's Not the Issue; U.S. Policy Isnew
Newsweek's screw-up is a gift to right-wingers looking to blame the media for Bush's foreign-policy failures.
Boston Phoenix |
Dan Kennedy |
05-19-2005 |
Media
Tags: media
Neal Horsley Admits Mule Was First Girlfriendnew
Here's the transcript of FOX News Radio host Alan Colmes' interview with Neal Horsley, in which the anti-abortion activist is asked to respond to media reports that he admitted to engaging in homosexual and bestiality sex.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Michael Wall |
05-19-2005 |
Animal Issues
Tags: animal issues
Student Journalist Charged With Misdemeanor Riotingnew
Documenting some "action" outside a club for a class assignment resulted in Quincy Shannon's arrest. Police say he egged a fight on by videotaping it.
"If the Shoe Fits," "Welcome to America," and "Duke of Oil"new
AltWeeklies Award - News Story (1500 words or less)
'Washing of the Brain'new
A new allegation surfaces in the already strange story of the New Gnostic Church.
Seattle Weekly |
Philip Dawdy |
05-18-2005 |
Religion
Tags: religion
Terror in Training
The roots of 9/11 reach all the way to Oklahoma.
Exactly what was Zacarias Moussaoui doing in Norman when he attended Airman Flight School?
Oklahoma Gazette |
Ben Fenwick and Rob Collins |
05-18-2005 |
Crime & Justice
Trouble at an Ohio Sikh Templenew
A conflict between cut and uncut members of a Sikh temple in Bedford, Ohio, led to a fistfight and a request from the city law director that the temple remain shut for two weeks to allow tempers to cool.
Cleveland Scene |
Charu Gupta |
05-17-2005 |
Religion
The Risk of Shopping While Black at Dillard'snew
A shopping trip to Dillard's resulted in the arrest for two African-American women, who claim they were falsely accused of shoplifting, mistreated, bullied and racially profiled.
Riverfront Times |
Mike Seely |
05-17-2005 |
Business & Labor
