AAN News
Cyborg Liberation Frontnew
When the World Transhumanist Association met
for a conference at Yale in June, they discussed
the future rights of those who will be half-man,
half-machine. The Village Voice's Erik
Baard looks at uploading consciousness,
bio-Luddites, and that nagging question: Who are
we? "My gut says we'll never have the answer to
that question," a Yale ethicist tells Baard.
Inn & Out at St. Louis' Budget Motelsnew
Peter hardly seems your average crack-
whore enthusiast. Tall,
fresh-faced and clad in shorts, shades, athletic
sandals and
standard-issue rayon clubbing shirt, he looks like
any other weekend
warrior in search of big-city fun. White and in
his early thirties, he
holds a master's degree from a respectable local
university and is
working toward his Ph.D. while living at his
grandparents' house. For the past five years or so,
when Peter
has gone looking for
action, he often finds it in north St. Louis, at down-
at-the-heels
motels like the Grand,
where he hires women to score crack
and smoke it with him, then pays
them to have sex with him at $10 a throw. Join
Riverfront Times
staff writer Mike Seely for a tour of St.
Louis's most
notorious no-tell motels.
Latest Issue of Street Miami Recalled, Sanitizednew
Seventy thousand copies of Miami Herald's
faux alternative were yanked
off the streets and within 24 hours were replaced
with a new version that deleted an unflattering
satirical portrait of local developer Stuart
Miller.
The Herald's general counsel tells Miami New Times'
Tristram Korten that the issue was
"withdrawn for legal reasons," but Korten reports
that it may have had more to do with
management's sensitivity to Miller, whose
family and powerful friends lashed out last year at
the Herald in response to a column written by New
Times alum Jim DeFede.
Miami New Times |
07-31-2003 12:41 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial
LA Weekly Examines Village Voice Layoffsnew
Nobody is denying that the papers and their
corporate parent are still making money, but
Howard Blume speculates that the recent
layoff at the flagship paper in New York was
designed to reassure investors that company
management "can be trusted to look out for (their)
interests." Blume asserts that VVM profits "have been
held below investor expectations" due to a
still shaky economy, rising health-care costs and
issues associated with the company's controversial
deal with New Times. Blume also reports that
VVM reached a "tentative, compromise
agreement" this week with the union at LA
Weekly.
LA Weekly |
07-31-2003 11:50 am |
Industry News
Tags: Management
Gannett Daily to Introduce Free Weekly in Louisvillenew
The Courier-Journal’s new tabloid will
target 25- to 34-year-olds and will focus on lifestyle
and entertainment news, according to an internal
memo intercepted by LEO's Tom Peterson.
The as-yet-unnamed paper will launch as early as
November with shared C-J personnel but ultimately
will have its own staff, according to the memo. Boise
Weekly Publisher Bingo Barnes tells
Peterson that the free weekly published by
Gannett's Idaho Statesmen doesn't compete fairly:
“They’ve
given some advertisers free ads for a year. And we’ve
lost some ads as a result. Their goal is total
market dominance."
Louisville Eccentric Observer |
07-30-2003 3:20 pm |
Industry News
Soldiers of Fortune in War on Terrornew
They fly helicopters, guard military bases and
provide reconnaissance. They're private
military companies -- and they're replacing
U.S. soldiers in the war on terrorism. Independent
Weekly's Barry Yeoman looks at
Blackwater USA's $35.7 million contract with the
Pentagon to train more than 10,000 sailors from
Virginia, Texas, and California each year. "Other
contracts are so secret, says
Blackwater
president Gary Jackson, that he can't tell one
federal agency about the business he's doing with
another," Yeoman writes.
AAN Discontinues Non-Member Recruitment Ads
AAN Staff |
07-30-2003 6:56 pm |
Association News
Tags: Editorial, Management
Pedmounts on the Horizon in New York City?new
The news rack situation in the Big Apple
may go from bad to worse, according to Matt Taibbi.
The city recently began enforcing a hodgepodge of
new regulations governing the use and placement of
news racks, and citations are already piling up:
New York Press received dozens within a
few weeks, and USA Today reports that
about 20 percent of its racks have already been
ticketed. Meanwhile, Mayor Bloomberg is
pursuing a street-furniture proposal that may reward
Clear Channel or JCDecaux with
a lucrative contract to replace proprietary news racks
with city-mandated pedmounts.
New York Press |
07-29-2003 3:06 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Circulation
Watching the Detectivesnew
Steven Hatfill has been hounded
by G-men 24-7 since becoming the FBI's
only known "person of interest" in the
anthrax attacks. They wait for him
in surveillance vans outside his
girlfriend's apartment, they follow him to
the store when he goes for ice cream,
they snap photos when a friend hands
him a bag containing homemade soup.
They use all kinds of cars: Durangos,
Pontiacs, Buicks, Saturns. And after
midnight, they patrol the area surrounding
his apartment on foot. And if he slips out
the back door? Agents will be there.
Jason Cherkis hangs out with
Hatfill in the backseat of his friend's
Plymouth as they drive around D.C. trying
to shake the tail.
Eugene Weekly Launches Ducks Illustrated
07-29-2003 5:08 pm |
Press Releases
Ex-Prisoner's Epic Murals Recognizednew
The epic murals on the cafeteria walls of
California's San Quentin State Prison are
surely
one of America's best-kept art secrets. Twelve feet
high and nearly 100 feet long, they chronicle
California's history, from the coming of the
railroads to the post-war industrial boom, and
have drawn favorable comparisons to the
WPA post-office murals of the 1930s. For nearly
50
years, the identity of the man who painted the
murals has remained a mystery. But, as SF
Weekly staff writer Ron Russell reports,
the
mystery has been solved -- and for the first time in
history, a former San Quentin inmate is about to
be honored with a "key to the prison."
Charlie's Angel Touts LA Weeklynew
"What should every visitor know about
Los Angeles?" American Way Magazine
asks Drew Barrymore. To which
the 28-year-old actress and film
producer responds, "Always
start with the LA Weekly. It's a
free newspaper you can find at certain
stores or
newsstands and it will tell you
everything you
want to know about what's going on
that
week." Ummm, that’s free
alternative
newspaper, Drew.
American Way Magazine |
07-25-2003 4:55 pm |
Industry News
Climate of Fearnew
UMass Boston professor Tony Van
Der Meer and his many supporters
say he’s been caught up in the climate of
repression that’s swept the nation since
September 11, 2001. Prosecutors say his
pending criminal trial has nothing to do
with repression; they allege that Van Der
Meer assaulted a cop. The story
might sound like a he-said-they-said
dispute. But, according to Kristen
Lombardi, it has come to epitomize
the potential injustices facing those who
dare speak out against the
prevailing pro-war, pro-"USA" fervor.
