Creative Loafing

Jason Cherkis

Occupy Y'All Street: Occupy Charlotte Activist Gambles Everything On The Movement

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Cherkis | Posted 02.09.2012

Read More: Dnc, Charlotte, Occupy Chicago, Luis Rodriguez, Flag Burning, Vic Suter, Veterans Affairs, US Airways, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, McPherson Square, Occupy Dc, Video, Mark Kemp, Creative Loafing, Old City Hall, Vietnam Vets, Occupy Charlotte, Occupy Wall Street, Duke Energy, Freedom Plaza, Occupy Duluth, Ptsd, North Carolina, Politics News

This is the fourth in a series of stories and short films on under-publicized Occupy sites. The first is here, the second is here, and the third is he...

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Dems Struggle With Issue Ahead Of Major 2012 Event

Creative Loafing | By Mary C. Curtis | Posted 01.04.2012

Read More: Democratic National Convention 2012, Dnc, Charlotte, 2012 Democratic National Convention, Creative Loafing, Democrats, Democratic National Convention, Politics News

Even when issues don't seem to have an impact on the Democratic National Convention coming to Charlotte in September, they do. For instance, the co...

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10 Tips on Loafing Creatively

Michael Sigman | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Marx Brothers, Zen, Surgery, Zucker Brothers, Bonnie Tyler, Farrelly Brothers, Fran Lebowitz, Rotator Cuff Tear, Buddhism, Meatloaf, Jim-Steinman, Martin Scorcese, Youtube, Creative Loafing, Walt Whitman, Meditation, Acupuncture, Healthy Living News
Michael Sigman

I loaf and invite my soul, I lean and loaf at my ease observing a spear of summer grass. --Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself" Five years ago, I blew a ch...

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No Goldman at the End of the Rainbow?

Michael Sigman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Goldman Sachs, Bill Clinton, Creative Destruction, Sec, Creative Loafing, Marxism, Jim Hightower, LA Weekly, Village Voice Media, Warren Buffett, Socialism, Greece, Business News
Michael Sigman

We now know that Goldman and other huge banks made multiple billions by financing financing -- as opposed to financing companies.

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Reader Gets New Management

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chicago Reader, Chicago Reader Bankruptcy, Creative Loafing, Creative-Loafing-Bankruptcy, Chicago News

A bankruptcy judge in Tampa has awarded control over the Chicago Reader and its parent company, Creative Loafing Inc., to New York-based Atalaya Capit...

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Chicago Reader Owner Files For Bankruptcy

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chicago Reader, Creative Loafing Bankruptcy, Creative Loafing, Chicago Reader Bankruptcy, Ben Eason, Chicago News

Creative Loafing Inc., the owner of the Chicago Reader, announced Monday that it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, Washington City Paper, which is ...

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Chicago Reader Publisher Resigns

Chicago Reader | Michael Miner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Michael Crystal, Chicago Reader, Kirk MacDonald, Michael Crystal Resigns, Creative Loafing, Chicago Reader Publisher Resigns, Steve Timble, Chicago News

Michael Crystal resigned Tuesday as publisher of the Chicago Reader. It was a job he'd held through four-plus complicated years. During that time the ...

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