AltWeeklies Wire
Tex-Mex Horse Meatnew
Horse slaughtering has stopped in Texas, but the horses are still dying -- now in Mexico.
Dallas Observer |
Megan Feldman |
01-14-2008 |
Animal Issues
Tags: animal issues
Tears and Loathing in New Hampshirenew
Hillary is not the first -- or last -- to be a crying shame.
Westword |
Patricia Calhoun |
01-14-2008 |
Commentary
New DNA Methods May Throw Doubt on More Convictionsnew
The reversal in Ted Bradford's case is the first in what Washington convicts hope, and prosecutors fear, may be a new wave of DNA-based appeals that can cloud a case, without clearly deciding it, years after the jury reached its verdict.
Seattle Weekly |
Rick Anderson |
01-14-2008 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Dr. Phil Can't Fix Britney, and He Can't Fix Americanew
If you're addicted to Dr. Phil's feel-good salve like so many Americans, don't forget that his predecessor, Rush Limbaugh, father of hope, became a despairing pill-popper himself when God started giving him the straight dope.
Boulder Weekly |
Ben Corbett |
01-14-2008 |
Commentary
No Man's Landnew
If a homeless person is shot in the woods, do the police really care?
Orlando Weekly |
Billy Manes |
01-14-2008 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
The Man Who Is Creating a World Without Povertynew
Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus on microcredit, his Grameen Bank, and his call for the creation of "social businesses" where profits would go not to investors but for poverty reduction.
Santa Barbara Independent |
Richard Appelbaum |
01-14-2008 |
Economy
Tags: Economic Issues
'The Flowers': Leaves of Sassnew
A story "that didn't have nothing to do with people or places you've ever seen," the book also lifts its seasoned author to another place in the literary order.
The Texas Observer |
Steven G. Kellman |
01-14-2008 |
Fiction
Targeting Irannew
Former Chief U.N. weapons inspector Scott Ritter talks about the Bush administration's agenda for Iran and why he thinks war may be inevitable.
Boulder Weekly |
Pamela White |
01-14-2008 |
International
Tags: Iran, international
Some Sportswriters Are Jumping Print for the Webnew
Dana O'Neil is one of many big daily newspaper sportswriters who's recently made the jump to online reporting.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Morgan A. Zalot |
01-14-2008 |
Media
Tags: media
'Evacuation Plan' Looks at Checkout Timenew
O'Connell's novel sprang from observing life in an Austin hospice.
The Texas Observer |
Janet Heimlich |
01-14-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Evacuation Plan, Joe M. O'Connell
Bob Eckhardt: The Man in the Panama Hatnew
Gary A. Keith reclaims the legacy of the quixotic progressive.
The Texas Observer |
Brant Bingamon |
01-14-2008 |
Nonfiction
Willie Nelson: Alive and Singing the Truthnew
Willie's daughter Amy co-wrote "A Peaceful Solution" with him last year -- the song declares that the real war we all need to be fighting is the war to reclaim our own country.
The Texas Observer |
Thomas Palaima |
01-14-2008 |
Music
Tags: Willie Nelson
Amateur Porn is Hotnew
Sites such as YouPorn.com and PornoTube.com are cutting into the traditional porn biz.
The Coast, Halifax's Weekly |
Lezlie Lowe |
01-14-2008 |
Commentary
Photo Finishnew
Artists Marlene MacCallum and David Morrish resurrected the almost-lost art of photogravure.
The Coast, Halifax's Weekly |
Sue Carter Flinn |
01-14-2008 |
Art
Tags: visual arts
Forget HMOs ... Computers are Rationing Health Carenew
Though you may not realize it, you give away your medical records every time you see a doctor who must be paid under an insurance plan.
Metro Times |
Edward Ericson Jr. |
01-14-2008 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
