Preface
Introduction by Mike Sager
Arts Criticism
Jim Hoberman, Village Voice
Why Hard Times Won't Mean Good Times at the Movies Again
Robert Frank's Real America
Jim Ridley, Nashville Scene
Madhouse
Once Upon a Time Forever
Arts Feature
Randall Roberts, L.A. Weekly
On the Road to Burma
Edwin Slipek Jr., Style Weekly
Art on Trial
Column
Sarah Fenske, Phoenix New Times
Globe High School Censors Its Student Newspaper
Sarah Fenske's in Dogged Pursuit
Anne Schindler, Folio Weekly
History Lesson
Sugarland
Feature Story
Joel Warner, Westword
The Good Soldier
Patrick Michels, Texas Observer
Private Trauma
Food Writing
Jonathan Gold, L.A. Weekly
Breaking Free
Christina Waters, Santa Cruz Weekly (Metro Santa Cruz)
The Jester's Quest
Investigative Reporting
John Dickerson, Phoenix New Times
Prescription for Disaster
The Doctor is Out
Dr. Loophole
Blind Trust
Jeffrey C. Billman, Orlando Weekly
Might Makes Right
Media Reporting / Criticism
Erik Wemple, Washington City Paper
One Mission, Two Newsrooms
David Koon and Gerard Matthews, Arkansas Times
On Air, On Edge
Music Criticism
Rob Harvilla, Village Voice
Ride the Plastic Lightning
Rob Harvilla, L.A. Weekly
Guns N' Roses
Luke Baumgarten, Pacific Northwest Inlander
The Metal and Mr. Kenney
Dissonance Directives
News Story—Long Form
Ashley Harrell,
SF Weekly Snitch
Gwynedd Stuart,
Folio Weekly Courting Disaster
News Story—Short FormBeth Walton,
City Pages Local Couples Fight for Gay Rights in Wake of Proposition 8
Midwest Oil Mining a Crude Idea to Many
Phillip Bailey,
LEO Weekly Turn Off the Radio
Taming the Wild West
Political ColumnBen Joravsky,
Chicago Reader Stimulus, Chicago-Style
Tom Robbins,
Village Voice The Mayor's Press Pass
Jeff Woods,
Nashville Scene Solo Ingles Derrotado
Public ServiceRobbie Woliver, Tim Bolger, and Michael M. Martino Jr.,
Long Island Press Heroin
Long Highland
Junk Bonds
Heroin Claims Another
Shame on Massapequa
Save My Kid
Natalie's Law
Betty Bean,
Metro Pulse Jackie Walker
The Jackie Walker Story
Local Hero
A Promise Kept
Special Topic—Election CoverageMatt Snyders,
City Pages Moles Wanted
Police Raid Anarchist Homes in Advance of RNC
Patricia Kilday Hart,
Texas Observer John McCain's Gramm Gamble
Acknowledgments
