by Heather Brandon | Sep 17, 2007 | Urban Compass
Springfield’s notorious riverfront prison, a late-1800s brick building complex, is slated for demolition, with interior remediation work to begin this month including the painstaking removal of asbestos and likely lead paint. North American Site Development...
by Brian Glyn Williams | Sep 17, 2007 | The Public Humanist
In 2001 I traveled across the war-blackened villages of Kosovo and saw first hand the evidence of Serbian atrocities carried out against the region’s indigenous Kosovar Albanian population. All of these horrors had been carried out in blatant disregard for...
by James Heflin | Sep 17, 2007 | Ten Gallon Liberal
The Advocate used to run the Project Censored top 10 stories the media missed. I wish we still did. But it’s out there. I can hardly take reading this year’s version, a rundown of how close we truly are to real, live, actual totalitarianism, but if you...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Sep 17, 2007 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
I’ll return to my essay about wrestling in a day or two, but I was alerted to this trailer, for the movie "King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters," by my old college roommate, and I thought I’d take a breather from my manly memories of wrestling and...