Ballot (Stuffed) Nominees For The 81 St Academy Awards Here is the complete ballot listing of all this year’s Academy Award nominees. For the the top seven categories, we’ve included the awards [...] Alibi \ Feb 19, 2009 Read More
Oscar (Analyzed) While this year’s Academy Award nominations seem like they’re filled with deserving honorees, apparently some honorees are more deserving than others. Just look [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Feb 19, 2009 Read More
Enough About Us—What Do You Think Of Us? We Choose The Winners Of The Alibi ’S Sixth Annual Valentine’s Card Contest The giving of valentines is a carefully nuanced act, one we learn in kindergarten. Valentines, no matter how small or seemingly simplistic, convey [...] Erin Adair-Hodges \ Feb 12, 2009 Read More
Show Us Your Pits Punish The Deed, Not The Breed All the barking about dangerous pit bulls got Kassie Brown hot under the collar.So she figured out a way to make some cash [...] Simon McCormack \ Feb 12, 2009 Read More
Burlesque As It Is Author And Performer Reflects On The Movement Today Vivienne VaVoom has received Google news alerts about burlesque for five years. She used to get pinged maybe once a week, tops. "Now [...] Marisa Demarco \ Feb 12, 2009 Read More Vivienne VaVoom (Cora Reed)
A Valentine For The Gender Offenders Her panties are red her boxers are bluemy boyfriend’s a drag kingmy girlfriend is, too.Male-female, in love or out—in a space where it’s [...] Marisa Demarco \ Feb 12, 2009 Read More (Courtesey of the Gender Offenders)
Red, White And Black Being Black In Albuquerque In A Post-Obama World When one realizes just how profound a moment in history Barack Obama’s ascension to the 44 th presidency is, consider this thought from [...] Gene Grant \ Feb 05, 2009 Read More “Every generation has failed to exorcise the demons of racism.” —Dr. Finnie Coleman (Eric Williams)
Giving Up The Ghost Facts About The Digital Television Transition This year, America’s television will cease to broadcast with radio frequency waves on the analog spectrum. Replacing it will be computer code, a [...] Jessica Cassyle Carr \ Jan 29, 2009 Read More
Low Power Or No Power? Two categories of television stations are exempt from the federal government’s digital switchover: translators and low-power stations. Translators are basically signal boosters for [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Jan 29, 2009 Read More
An Ode To Fuzz A quick call to the FCC confirmed a dreadful rumor: Once the nation goes digital, white fuzz will be gone forever. Your TV [...] Marisa Demarco \ Jan 29, 2009 Read More