Curtis's latest version of "Poppea" puts some undue stress on the tenors, but it chooses a satisfying sequence among the many editorial alternatives that exist for this score.
This is the same BMJ that 20 years ago declared, in a dismissive editorial, that alternative medicine "ought to be as extinct as divination by examination of bird's entrails".
And in terms of editorial content, alternative weeklies have long specialized in areas that the rest of the media has been moving toward, says Roxanne Cooper, director of sales and marketing for the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies in Washington.
The editorial suggested alternatives like lifting a federal prohibition on using food-stamp funds for educational campaigns that disparage specific foods.
Any buyer would either have to buy the Independent titles and their editorial staff, or provide alternative content for the website business.
Lalo Alcaraz, an editorial cartoonist for the alternative newspaper LA Weekly, who has been drawing "La Cucaracha" for nearly two years, was more blunt about the generational scrimmage for space on the comics page.
While Dylan, the Velvet Underground and the Rolling Stones challenged popular music in terms of arrangements and instrumentation, the late 60s ushered in a new "golden age" of design, as artists produced psychedelic posters, murals and editorial graphics for the alternative press, clubs and events (dubbed "be-ins" and "freak-outs").
In this Editorial, I propose the alternative, broader term 'tool' to describe a biological system that does not obviously (or precisely) recapitulate a human disorder, but that nonetheless provides useful insight into the etiology or treatment of that disorder.
"Ending the Oil Addiction" (editorial, Feb. 18) suggests alternatives to increased domestic oil production, but they would fall far short of a solution.
In 1994, eight years after the Dead Kennedys disbanded, Jello got beaten up at the very venue he helped set up by youths shouting "sell-out rock star, kick him!", following an anti-Alternative Tentacles editorial in MRR.
