Alternative Press

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  • Generation R.I.P.

    The Village Voice pronounces Generation X as dead as Kurt Cobain and as irrelevant as a Cheesy Poof. Plus: Alternative health stories that don't suck.
  • Alternative juju

    Unconventional remedies are ripe for journalistic inquiry, but are weeklies up to the job? Plus: The secrets of mosquitoes, Osama bin Laden's hiding place and Internet IPOs revealed!
  • Whither fair lesbians?

    Gay Pride marches on, leaving its lesbian sisters to cough up the dust. Plus: The Boston Phoenix reports on Starbucks' latest conquest and why pheromone perfumes only make you stink.
  • I know what girls want

    Four feminist zines give their anti-Cosmo versions of the modern woman. Plus: The Stranger celebrates the Seven Deadly Sins, and the Willamette Week makes one writer cry on her keyboard.
  • Jar Jar mania must die!

    The Village Voice takes Jar Jar theorizing too far; a quasi-national alternative glossy editor's cri de coeur; new theories on love and marriage.
  • Advertising stole my humanity!

    Capitalism is out of control with sexist ad execs, mix tapes by irrelevant hippies and the inevitable, horrible cloning of "The Bridget Jones Diary."
  • Birds do it. Bees do it. Even teens on the WB do it ...

    Sex ed. takes a beating in Minneapolis; Slovenia hires a PR firm; black Sam Spades take the whodunit stage.
  • Ma Bell's ill communication

    The Dallas Observer exposes telecommunications madness; rumors of carcinogenic tampons may be greatly exaggerated.
  • Pundits in the limelight

    Political consultants make for better copy than the candidates; one writer's Brontk-inspired hell; enough with the "enough with 'Star Wars'" stories!
  • Millennial-time religion

    The L.A. Weekly gets spiritual; poo falls from the sky in Salt Lake City.
  • Decorating for Communists!

    The Seattle Weekly combines politics and home and garden advice; Baltimore reporters explore the origins of movie trailers.
  • Teenage wasteland

    The Boston Phoenix wins the "oops" award for a piece claiming that the gun-toting teen is a media myth -- one day after Littleton.
  • Project Censored's annual guilt trip is back!

    Plus: Why Gore may flop in Washington; sex assaults up in Boston schools; and more tales from the alternative press.
  • Stop worrying about unsafe gay sex

    An opinionated roundup of the most interesting stories in the alternative press.
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