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Making Out Like a Bandit
By Jaime Jacques, spacing
'[D]ating doesn't need to cost much if you have an adventurous spirit and an open-minded partner.' So says Jaime Jacques, a Toronto resident at the ready with wallet-friendly urban dating tips. Jacques recommends fearless romantics infuse their love lives with a little piracy. Consider taking a nighttime stroll through the local cemetery or packing a picnic for a relaxing rooftop evening. For those with tendencies toward exhibitionism, don't miss out on the joys of stealing long kisses in a subway station, on a main street, or -- better yet -- in an alleyway. -- Rose Miller
http://spacing.ca/making-out.htm

Power to the Pictures
David Moberg, In These Times
The IWW may never have matched the AFL-CIO in size or power, but the union produced a rich pictorial history that authors Paul Buhle and Nicole Shulman bring to light in their book Wobblies!: A Graphic History of the Industrial Workers of the World. The Wobblies, as IWW members were called, engendered a set of prominent working-class heroes and created a rich tapestry of folk songs, cartoons, and stories to illustrate their visionary politics. With the current union identity crisis underway, Buhle and Shulman's book offers some inspiration from the annals of working-class history. -- Rose Miller
http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/2245/

Bio Goes Bling
By Judith Lewis, LA Weekly
Oversized, Texas tea-guzzling pimp cars automobiles of the '70s and '80s are being reincarnated as sippers of renewable fuel. The Los Angeles-based BioBling company works to unite drivers with flashy, and not-so-flashy, vintage rides rigged to run on biodiesel. -- Archie Ingersoll
http://www.laweekly.com/ink/05/35/a-lewis.php

Calamity Jon
By Joshua Glenn, The Boston Globe
Jonathan Corum's life is a cautionary tale, literally. The graphic artist retraced his years of injuries -- from a second-grade finger-stapling incident to the college heartbreak of missing his girlfriend -- through a timeline of bright yellow warning symbols intended 'to protect others from complex injuries.' -- Hannah Lobel
http://tinyurl.com/7mmvg
http://www.13pt.com/piws/

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