Crude

by Jed Morey

Or, How Wall Street investment banks manipulated oil prices to try to save their hides, screwing American consumers and the rest of the world and breaking the economy anyway

To Invest or To Cut?

by Bruce Fisher

Chumps & Champs

by Michael I. Niman

Let’s use a simple analogy to explain the financial meltdown: I take your money to the casino and start playing roulette. If I win, I keep the profits. I’m a champ. If I lose, you lose your money.

Four and Counting

by Dave Staba

With the Buffalo’s professional football team off to its best start since the final year of the first Bush administration, the Season Ticket coverage team took to the street to investigate whether the Bills Bandwagon had started rolling.

Interview With Actor-director Ed Harris

by M. Faust

It’s been 50 years since they first pronounced the Western dead, but it just refuses to stop sucking air. Filmmaker Ridley Scott most recently took heat for pronouncing the demise of what used to be America’s favorite genre (though it’s unlikely anyone would have noticed had he not brought it up as a comparison to what he called the equally lifeless genre of science fiction).

by Donny Kutzbach

Comfort Food

by Joe George

“Bread is an object of unparalleled worship and decorum. It embodies the full cycle of life and seasons, from the death of the wheat kernel in the earth to the resurrection as a stalk, from its ordeal in the mill to its journey through the oven and its offering at the table. Bread is a part of all major events in many lives, from birth, to betrothal and marriage, to death and resurrection.”

Food News You Can Use

by Judy Sperry

Interested in mingling within benevolent social circles this fall? Why not purchase tickets to one of these appetizing benefits:

Stagefright

by Javier

See You There!

News of the Weird

by Chuck Shepherd

Free Will Astrology

by Rob Brezsny

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