Results tagged “votingrightsact”

LAist is experimenting with blogging dates from J-Date, but finds the best men are found offline. Some date vicariously online and that is one reason why porn is big -- really freaking big -- so they ask if they should cover XXX since the heart of it lays in the city's San Fernando Valley. A writer grapples with her food porn photography obsession, another gets censored on Flickr, one gets scooped by the LA... more ›

With the sun out, the temperatures high, one can only think of one thing-- what's going on in the World of the -ists? Bostonist dug deep to uncover Barack Obama's unpaid parking tickets, their Governor's latest ethical lapse, and a plagarizing sports writer. Chicagoist had everything in twos: two views on having the Olympics, losing two members of their Super Bowl team, and two music festivals. DCist put their noses in legal books as... more ›

On Friday, the Chronicle carried a profile of a kindred spirit of Houstonist's: Jerry Wood, who seems to delight in learning all there is to know about Houston. As a child, Wood had a rich fantasy life and terrible eye-hand coordination. Creating make-believe cities on paper was Wood's way of trying to master the world. "I found the world to be a scary place," he said. "I would try and understand it better, to imitate... more ›

You think you've got troubles? Try being Tom DeLay these days. First there were the ethics complaints, then those pesky indictments, and now the Supreme Court's going to review the DeLay-led redistricting that allowed Texas Republicans to take a majority of House seats in 2004. more ›