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Scott Harrell is the music critic at Weekly Planet (Tampa) and the singer for Nessie, a band with a new CD ("Drunk with a Gun") being shopped to major labels. In a preview of an upcoming show, Wade Tatangelo of The Bradenton Herald describes Nessie's music as having "that Pixies, stop 'n' go, urgency." The 34-year-old Harrell is a veteran of the Tampa music scene; "There's always been a whole lot of talent surrounded by a whole lot of garbage," he says.

09-07-2006 1:21 pm | Industry News

Tags: Editorial, Scott Harrell

Phoenix Publisher's Wife Gets a Daytime TV Show

Judge Maria Lopez's eponymous show will join the ranks of syndicated daytime courtroom shows on Monday, the Provincetown Banner reports. Lopez is a former Massachusetts Superior Court judge and the wife of Phoenix Media Communications Group Publisher Stephen Mindich.

Related: Mindich tells the Lowell Sun that Lopez is "having the best time of her life."

09-07-2006 12:51 pm | Industry News

Tags: Stephen Mindich

Underground Press Icon John Wilcock Still Publishing

John Wilcock was already an experienced British journalist when he began writing "The Village Square" column for The Village Voice in 1955. These days, the 78-year-old writes a weekly column in The Montecito Journal, self-publishes a monthly zine called The Ojai Orange, and produces a public access television show. The twisted tale of his life, as revealed to the Ventura County Reporter, also includes stints as a travel writer for The New York Times and Frommer's, a columnist for LA Weekly, and an apprentice to a witch. Wilcock was friends with Andy Warhol and Abbie Hoffman, but says he "never really got along very well" with Norman Mailer, because Mailer was "a bit self-important."

09-07-2006 9:11 am | Industry News

Tags: Editorial, The Village Voice

Louis Black Reminisces About 25 Years at the Austin Chroniclenew

The first issue was a "disaster," says the Chronicle's co-founder, "a calamity so legendary that, for much of a decade, copies of it were not allowed in the office." The cover featured Shock Treatment, a movie destined never to open, and it was completely purple as the result of a miscommunication with the printer. The present-day Chronicle is "a paper as honest as we can get it," Black says. "We don't just create this paper, we're fans. We can't wait to see what's going to be in the next issue and the next and the next." In addition to Black's column in the Sept. 8 issue, the Chronicle posted a 25th anniversary photo album online.

Austin Chronicle | 09-07-2006 8:16 am | Industry News

Tags: Editorial, Austin Chronicle, Louis Black

Richmond Times-Dispatch Launches Faux-Alt 'Brick'new

Editor & Publisher | 09-07-2006 2:42 pm | Industry News

Tags: Circulation

Religious Group Regularly Steals Cleveland Scene From Librarynew

Scene (bottom of page) | 09-07-2006 1:07 pm | Industry News

Tags: Circulation, Scene

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