Sunday, December 31st, 2006
BLISTER (Orlando Weekly)
Don t threaten me. DON T YOU THREATEN ME! My inner Sharon Stone chafes a crotch feather while kicking through her Casino powder-room door. I m writhing out my histrionic calisthenics in the front seat of Alan s giant gold Cadillac in preparation for the worst.
Source: www.orlandoweekly.com
Drugs, Dougs and Christian soldiers (Colorado Springs Independent)
The roller-coaster ride of 2006 has seen Colorado politics go blue, like those across the nation. Colorado Springs mourned the deaths of two police officers slain in the line of duty. It also grieved for Fort Carson soldiers more than 175 killed since the war began in March 2003.
Source: www.csindy.com
Web Exclusive (The Pitch)
Five schoolgirls, a throng of hecklers, no cops and not enough blood. That s the final tally of Dougie Rosenbrook s crucifixion, which happened just after midnight on December 29 in Case Park (see last week s cover story) . People who showed up expecting a freak show got what they were looking for, but those hoping to see a Mel Gibson-style gorefest la went home grumbling.
Source: www.pitch.com
Fantastical Play of the Mind (Los Angeles Weekly)
Spring has come to Machine Project, and the major piece they are working on, titled Mach Infinity , is a floral planetarium, essentially a giant metal geodesic dome covered in leaves and petals.
Source: www.laweekly.com
The 2006 List to end all lists (Toronto Eye Weekly)
Liberal ads are crazy. In our cities. In Canada. We did not make this up. | Jane Creba memorial on Yonge Street. | Broken Social Scene album tops our cross-Canada music critics poll. | Sarah Slean voted best musician. | MP Sarmite Bulte raises funds, copyright questions.
Source: www.eye.net
Grant's Tune (Baltimore City Paper)
More than two years ago, Lt. Gov. Michael Steele bestowed $250,000 in taxpayer money on four nonprofits. The money came from a discrimination settleme…
Source: www.citypaper.com
Actor News (MI6)
For some fans he was too short, too blond, too Northern… yet Daniel Craig's 007 has made him the hottest film star of the year. But before you typecast him, his next role is as the gay convicted killer Perry Smith in the Capote biopic Infamous.
Source: www.mi6.co.uk
John McQuaid: The Word That Sums Up Saddam's Execution: Tawdry (HuffingtonPost)
It was partly the postcolonial execution kitsch — the masked hangmen who looked like their next gig might be robbing a 7-11. The big last-minute rush to get him up on the gallows before dawn. The absurd, transparent attempts to wipe the American fingerprints off the whole thing and pretend the Iraqis were calling the shots. But there was a more transcendent tawdriness to it as well. …
Source: feeds.huffingtonpost.com
The earth we stood on (Financial Times)
Alexander wrote the most beautiful letters and I have kept them all. From that first week when we met at university, this was how he courted me. A yellow page torn from a notebook was slipped under my door. At its centre was a dense cluster, more like a sign than words.
Source: www.ft.com