Pedal Power: Green-Thinking Recovery Center Gets Its Motor Running—But Still Needs Fuel Green-Thinking Recovery Center Gets Its Motor Running—But Still Needs Fuel Jesse was far from home last winter, detoxing at a rehab facility in in the Midwest. The 23-year-old recovering addict returned to New [...] Sam Adams \ Nov 11, 2010 Read More Dr. Sam Slishman (right) and Jeff Holland (Sam Adams)
Odds & Ends: Sleepdriving, Log Shot, Old Man Crime Spree Odds & Ends: Sleepdriving, Log Shot, Old Man Crime Spree Dateline: Sweden— A 51-year-old man was acquitted of drunk driving because the court couldn’t rule out the possibility that he was sleepwalking. The [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Nov 11, 2010 Read More
Odds & Ends: Fake Weed Is Nasty, The Salad Dressing Bandit, Farmville Baby Killer, Child Porn Job Interview, Sleep-Shooting Odds & Ends: Fake Weed Is Nasty, The Salad Dressing Bandit, Farmville Baby Killer, Child Porn Job Interview, Sleep-Shooting Dateline: Pennsylvania— The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that a 21-year-old Uniontown man called police to report that the weed he had must purchased tasted [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Nov 04, 2010 Read More
Miss Diagnosis: America Is In For An Insulin Shock Some diseases, like people, just have a special “it” factor that captures the imagination of the public. For instance, Ebola erupted on the [...] Whitny Doyle R.N. \ Nov 04, 2010 Read More “Left Over Bits” (Watt_Dabney http://www.flickr.com/photos/watt_dabney/)
Letters: Readers Are Peeved About The City’s Ban On Pornotopia Film Festival Zone-O-Topia Thank you so much for bringing this story to the attention of the public [News, “Porn Festival Screwed,” Oct. 28-Nov. 3]. I had [...] Alibi \ Nov 04, 2010 Read More
Jon Stewart And Stephen Colbert Rally To Restore Comedy In D.c. WASHINGTON—Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, like many before them, called on Americans to gather in D.C. for an afternoon of calling for sanity, [...] Maren Tarro \ Nov 04, 2010 Read More Sanity- and/or fear-mongering (Maren Tarro)
Council Watch: Red-Light Cameras Remain, Shuffling The Inspector General There’s been something missing from City Council meetings since the last election: the wagging tail of former Councilor Sally Mayer’s “pet project.” Homeless [...] Carolyn Carlson \ Nov 04, 2010 Read More
Odds & Ends: Revenge Of The Goats, Long-Lost Bong, Labor Of The Mind, Arrest This Dinner, But The Movie Did Suck Odds & Ends: Revenge Of The Goats, Long-Lost Bong, Labor Of The Mind, Arrest This Dinner, But The Movie Did Suck Dateline: India— A group of sacrificial goats turned the tables on the last day of the 10-day, nine-night Navratri festival, triggering a stampede [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Oct 28, 2010 Read More
The Radford Files: True Blood (Suckers) — A Primer In Vampire Physiology A Primer In Vampire Physiology We all know how fictional vampires attack their helpless prey, thanks to the deluge of vampires as depicted by such writers as Stephenie [...] Benjamin Radford \ Oct 28, 2010 Read More Fig. 1
Letters: Neverending Hispano Debate, Criticizing The Critic, Metaphor City, Magic Denish, Eastwood Moseys The Hispano Debate Rages On Just a quick reply to the comments by "katrina2010" in last week’s Alibi [Letters, “Ye Old New Mexico Debate,” Oct. 21-27]: Katrina2010, I [...] Alibi \ Oct 28, 2010 Read More