AAN News
From Russia with Lovenew
Creative Loafing's Scott Henry unwraps
the latest twist on the mail-order bride: American
men looking for love in Russia. Eastern European
women, raised in a male-dominated culture,
appeal to many American men who want the old
days back, when wives kept the house and raised
the children. European Connections' "romance
tours" bring together desperate (and often
beautiful) Russian women and needy American
men. Henry talks to one such couple whose
unlikely match has survived.
Two Cleveland Scene Employees Charged With Threatening Competitornew
Editor Pete Kotz says the two ad department
employees had been out drinking and
were just "trash-talking over the phone."
Cleveland Free Times
Editor David Eden claims they threatened to murder
a Free Times employee and rape his wife.
Whatever it was, it's now in the courts. Adam
Simon and Brian LeBlanc face charges of
aggravated menacing, telecommunications
harassment and making threats over the
telephone, The Plain Dealer reports.
The Plain Dealer |
08-27-2003 9:16 am |
Industry News
Tags: Scene, Cleveland Free Times
Where Was AAN When the Lights Went Out?
AAN members scrambled to
keep operations running after the massive
Aug. 14 blackout that plunged 50 million people
into darkness across the U.S.
and Canada. "This was a disastrous scenario,”
Grant Crosbie, ad director for NOW
Magazine in Toronto tells AAN News. But most
papers had flexible printers and were
fortunate that the power failure
occurred on a Thursday, after that week's issue
had already hit the streets.
(FULL STORY)
Ann Hinch |
08-26-2003 11:29 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial
New Times Papers Win Two Clarion Awardsnew
The Association for Women in Communications
grants Martin Kuz of Cleveland Scene a
Clarion Award for his story, "The Wal-Mart
Menace" in the Newspaper Hard News Story
category. Geri Dreiling of Riverfront
Times also picks up a Clarion Award in the
Newspaper Feature Story category for "Nasty
Boys."
The Association for Women in Communications |
08-26-2003 10:06 am |
Industry News
A User's Guide to Modern Kickingnew
Despite decades of multibillion-dollar efforts to
flatten poppy fields, apprehend smugglers
and disband drug rings, the world’s favorite
opiate just keeps coming over the borders,
purer and cheaper than ever. According to
the Drug Enforcement Administration, heroin has
gained nearly half a million users in the past 10
years. Luckily, even
while California’s drug and alcohol treatment
programs are due to lose $11.5 million this
year, medical practitioners, both establishment
and alternative, are deepening their
understanding of addiction — and
broadening drug users’ options for getting clean.
In this issue, LA Weekly writers look at
everything from an African root bark and
other new therapies to the economy of
rehab in a issue dedicated to kicking and
keeping clean.
Gambit Weekly Welcomes Katy Reckdahl to Editorial Staff
Gambit Weekly news release |
08-26-2003 2:19 pm |
Press Releases
Photographer on California Recall Ballotnew
Gary Leonard, a veteran freelance
photographer whose work has appeared in LA
Weekly, LA Reader, New Times Los Angeles and
LA CityBeat, kept his gubernatorial petition in his
shirt pocket and whipped it out at enough shoots
to get on the recall ballot, the Studio City Sun
reports. Leonard is scheduled for the Tonight
Show Sept. 22, and tells the Sun, "I even
impressed my parents."
Studio City Sun |
08-25-2003 3:57 pm |
Industry News
New CEO at Times Publishing Co.new
James E. Dible becomes the first non-
member of the Mead family to head the Erie, Pa.,
publishing company that owns majority stakes in
AAN-members
Cleveland Free Times and the Louisville
Eccentric Observer (LEO), as well as the
daily Erie
Times-News, Editor & Publisher reports. Dible,
60, helped start Cyberlink, an Internet company,
and the paper's GoErie.com Web site. He
replaces Michael Mead, 65, who is retiring.
Editor & Publisher |
08-25-2003 2:14 pm |
Industry News
"To Boldly Go..."new
Sacramento is home to some of the world's
strangest Star Trek tribute bands, as
documentary filmmaker Roger Nygard has
discovered. SN&R's Cosmo Garvin
tagged along when Nygard recently shot some
film for the sequel to his successful documentary
"Trekkies," and found bands like No Kill I, Warp
11, and Stovokor were entertaining fans with all
sorts of variations on the Star Trek mystique.
Leavitt's Legacynew
Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt is selling himself as the
next EPA chief on the strength of his reputation as
a consensus builder. It's an easy pose,
as long as
you hand-pick your negotiating partners.
Environmental groups in Utah and around the
nation view the boyish 52-year-old with justified
suspicion. Is he the stealth industry shill
who can
sell the Bush anti-environment agenda? Salt Lake
City Weekly's Jake Parkinson talks to
Leavitt's friends and foes.
"Do-Not-Fax" Rules Delayed Until Jan. 2005new
Associated Press via Miami Herald |
08-22-2003 11:50 pm |
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