"Are young Americans more interested in selling out than changing the world? Daniel Brook's new book argues that 20-somethings are forced to choose between living by their ideals or making a living." (Salon)
"In 1916, a bomb hidden in a suitcase exploded during a Preparedness Day parade on San Francisco's Market Street, killing 10 people and wounding 40. The parade was in support of the United States' entrance into World War I." (Earth Times)
A couple years back, one of our intrepid (or perhaps not so intrepid) reporters sat down with a quaint family of white supremacists at Applebee's, and then wrote a very long story about it. Who gives a shit, you ask? Well, some people do. The story's been thrown around the blogosphere recently, and lots of angry and confused readers have made their way to our site to comment, not only on the story, but on the very nature of hate crime, hate groups, and how best to attend to such groups in the media. Some highlights:
Name: David Downs
Title: SF Weekly Web Editor / Village Voice Media Web Music Editor
Age: 27
Location: Bernal Heights
Background: Born in Chicago, raised in Southern California by a computer programmer and skateboard shop owner. Graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in English in 2002. Downs has worked for the Los Angeles Times, Wired, The Onion, the Believer, and is the former Music Editor of the East Bay Express.
Random Details: 1st Place -Best Columnist - East Bay Press Club - 2007; 1st Place -- Best Feature Writing - National Association of Alternative Newsweeklies - 2006; Fellow - Academy of Alternative Journalism - 2004.
Likes: Skateboarding, journalism, video games.
Dislikes: People with no perspective.
Contact:
david.downs@villagevoicemedia.com
desk:
415.536.8130
185 Berry St. Suite 3800
San Francisco, CA. 94107
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Some people need to test themselves. They climb mountains. They swim across the Bay. They run marathons -- and, keep in mind, the soldier who ran the 26.2 miles from the eponymous battle of Marathon to Athens in 490 B.C.E. dropped dead.
Gerald Horne does none of these things. But, in an effort to test his limits and answer some questions about himself, The Berkeley resident recently set off with 120 pounds of bulky equipment and his 95-pound pit bull, Zeus, hiked 12 miles under the blistering sun, intentionally went without food for the better part of two weeks and ended up in a Monterey County hospital bed after an air rescue.
Like you, I wondered, "What was he thinking?" So I asked him.
"I see a lot of whiteness in this room."--Paul Wade
That expression seems to be one of Paul's favorites during pre-boxing workouts, and I guess it's true -- there is a lot of whiteness in boxing bootcamp. My estimation, for what it's worth, is that the room is filled with about 85 percent Caucasian Dudes like myself, and about 95 percent Caucasian People in total. But Paul's not talking about our ethnicities.
