AltWeeklies Wire
Sex Files: Reading the Signsnew
Erotica can tune you in to what turns you on.
C-Ville Weekly |
Annette Owens |
01-16-2008 |
Advice
Tags: advice columns
WWWGA Do?new
Screenwriter Megan Holley skips the picket lines for Sundance.
C-Ville Weekly |
Brendan Fitzgerald |
01-16-2008 |
Movies
Ron Paul: The Only Candidatenew
Candidates like Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton or Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney are charismatic, understand the political machine, and use it to their advantage. Paul is an entirely different animal.
Charleston City Paper |
Jack Hunter |
01-16-2008 |
Commentary
Proposed Coal Plant a Symbol of Looming Energy Debatenew
The proposed Wise County plant has come to symbolize growing debates about the importance of a region's economic health verses the actual health of its residents, the power of Dominion in state government and the looming battle over the future of public investment for our energy.
C-Ville Weekly |
Scott Weaver |
01-16-2008 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Hundreds Flood Virginia Capitol to Oppose New Coal Plantnew
Alternative energy, efficiency the way to go, locals say.
C-Ville Weekly |
Scott Weaver |
01-16-2008 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Will Ralph Nader Run Again in '08?new
At the Green Party debate, he told us that if powerful institutional forces collude to limit that party's nominee's access to the ballot, as he charges they did in 2004, he might run to highlight the need for greater political participation.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Amanda Witherell |
01-16-2008 |
Politics
Scenes from the GOP Debate in South Carolinanew
FOX abandons hand-raising questions for bland conservative ones.
Charleston City Paper |
Greg Hambrick |
01-16-2008 |
Politics
Twilight of the Giants: Old-Growth Hemlocks Under Siegenew
The country's largest Eastern hemlocks -- many of them hundreds of years old -- face a "functional extinction" because of a tiny pest, the hemlock woolly adelgid. Here's the story of one man’s mission to measure and document the trees before they're gone.
Mountain Xpress |
Kent Priestley |
01-15-2008 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Loyola College Students and Teachers Forge a Publishing Partnershipnew
In the basement of Loyola College's Dorothy Day Hall, a quiet revolution is gaining momentum.
Baltimore City Paper |
Darcelle Bleau |
01-15-2008 |
Books
Wu-Tang Clan Revolts Against Its Mastermindnew
Clearly emboldened by the fact that he doesn't need the Clan to move units, Ghostface Killah attacked RZA and 8 Diagrams with vigor.
Baltimore City Paper |
Michael Alan Goldberg |
01-15-2008 |
Music
Tags: 8 Diagrams, The Wu-Tang Clan
Another Gushernew
Let me state this plainly: There is no stronger entry for the Best American Movie of 2007 than Paul Thomas Anderson's showy, jagged, complex There Will Be Blood.
Baltimore City Paper |
Evan Guilfoyle |
01-15-2008 |
Reviews
Leaps for the Common Lifenew
New and recent books from New Mexico poets.
Weekly Alibi |
Lisa Lenard-Cook |
01-15-2008 |
Poetry
Recipe: Belgian Onion Soupnew
There are few perceivable pillars of French cooking that are as widely and voraciously loved as scalding-hot onion soup cloaked in a blistering layer of melted Gruyère.
Weekly Alibi |
Alex Brown and Evan George |
01-15-2008 |
Food+Drink
One Man's Quest for Mysterynew
In some ways, Ben Chasny's feelings about MySpace match his take on creating music in general.
Weekly Alibi |
Simon McCormack |
01-15-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Alternative Rock Conceived in a Snowstormnew
"We were just trapped inside and all we could do was drink and record," says Botnix lead singer-guitarist Tim O'Brien. "The storm was the best thing that ever happened to this band."
Weekly Alibi |
Simon McCormack |
01-15-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Botnix, de-fe-'ni-shens/
