SHOLI: SHOLI (QUARTERSTICK/ TOUCH & GO) **½ Sadly, "Sholi" may be the last new release from Touch & Go, as financial woes have forced the label to go catalog-only for the time being. T&G is one of the great U.S. indie labels, fostering bands such as Big Black, The Jesus Lizard and Seam, to name but a few. ...more

March 5, 2009

Detectives are trying to determine whether a series of brazen, violent robberies over the weekend are connected. ...more

December 1, 2008

Congress shouldn't respond to the Big Three's mistakes with one of its own, and the biggest mistake of all would be to let Detroit drop dead. Lawmakers need to take action to save some of the last good working-class jobs in America and to put a tourniquet on the nation's economic pain. ...more

November 27, 2008

As an Army surgeon in the Middle East, Keith Rose watched a colleague bleed to death when a truck in his convoy was hit with a rocket-propelled grenade. ...more

December 26, 2007