Kip Anderson is a pretty unassuming man as he walks down Main St. in Anderson, S.C. Sure, he seems to get recognized wherever he roams, but that stems more from the fact that he’s lived here his entire life than from his stature as a world-renowned music legend. MetroBEAT sits down with the R&B great and traces his career, from the church to the clubs to prison.
The alt-weekly contrarian launches a new weekly column this week in City Paper under the header "Right Field." Smith will also continue writing his "Mugger" column for New York Press, which he sold late last year. But he and his family left Manhattan to return to Charm City, where he co-founded the City Paper (it was originally called City Squeeze) in 1977 and sold it a decade later.
How did Texas slaughterhouses operate illegally for the past quarter-century without getting caught? Maybe no one in the state government knew that the agricultural code forbids horse slaughter. Or perhaps the industry's profits — which benefited not only the plants and buyers, but also several state agencies and Texas universities — were enough that it paid to look the other way. Editor Lisa Sorg looks at horse slaughter practices in Texas in a two-part series.
Seven years ago, conservative Roman Catholic activist Steven Brady began a crusade to root out priests involved in sexual scandal. Operating from his pizza parlor in rural Petersburg, Ill., Brady’s group, Roman Catholic Faithful, conducted Internet and direct-mail campaigns to oust priests in dioceses from Dallas to South Africa. Critics say Brady goes on the attack with scant evidence, but he’s caught some priests through their own personal ads. "He has no natural ability to identify or interpret facts," admits one supporter. "However, he is such an idiot that I'm sure God is leading him." In a two-part series, Illinois Times’ Pete Sherman talks to Brady about RCF’s self-professed mission to fight "corruption within the Catholic hierarchy." Brady is blunt: "We are in the business of destroying lives, but lives that need destroying."
