by Stephanie Kraft | May 8, 2008 | News
Given the hype that's kept Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's association with outspoken pastor Jeremiah Wright booming in the media echo chamber, a story that's been curiously underreported is that of the love feast between Republican...
by our readers | May 8, 2008 | News
Meat MadnessEarlier this week, the prestigious Pew Charitable Trusts and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health concluded that factory farming takes a big toll on human health and the environment, undermines rural economic stability, and fails to provide...
by Alan Bisbort | May 8, 2008 | News
Wow, did we just get a giant green tongue-bath this Earth Day! Every April 22nd, it seems, everybody suddenly loves Mother Earth. Madonna has gone green; I know this because she's on the cover of Vanity Fair's Green Issue, just as Leonardo DiCaprio was...
by our readers | May 15, 2008 | News
Year of DoctorowDoctorow appearing in the Valley twice this year? I was surprised for a second by your cover story ["The Book of Doctorow," April 3, 2008]. It took only a brief look inside to see you were referring to E.L. Doctorow. The other novelist, Cory...
by Alan Bisbort | May 15, 2008 | News
In 1888, the Bostonian Edward Bellamy published Looking Backward, a novel that imagined America in the year 2000. He foresaw a "nation organized as one great business corporation… the one capitalist… the sole employer." That's the bad news....
