AAN News
AAN CAN Rates Going Up
AAN Staff |
04-04-2003 11:00 am |
Industry News
Pennsylvania Newspaper Family Invests in Cleveland Free Times
Former Village Voice Media President Art Howe is now CEO of a holding company formed by the Mead family of Erie, Pa., which owns the daily Erie Times-News, to pursue purchases of alternative newsweeklies. Cleveland Free Times is the first investment the company has made in an alt-weekly. The management team headed by former Free Times Publisher Matt Fabyan "has been made significant partners," Howe said.
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AAN Staff |
04-03-2003 3:38 pm |
Industry News
Riverfront Times Wins Business Writing Awardnew
Geri L. Dreiling of the Riverfront Times receives a certificate of merit from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW) for a story she did on sexual harassment and discrimination at Texas-based Rent-A-Center.
Society of Business Editors and Writers |
04-03-2003 10:44 am |
Industry News
American Woman Killed by Israeli Tanknew
Eli Sanders reports from the Gaza Strip for The Stranger on the death of
Rachel Corrie -- Evergreen student, anarchist, activist, and
accidental martyr. The Olympia, Wash., native was
defending the house of an Arab doctor when she was killed by one of the giant armored Israeli
bulldozers that people here say terrorize them.
Be Patriotic: Buy Foreignnew
Laurie David is not your typical
"Think
Globally, Act Locally" sort of
environmentalist. Her husband, Larry
David, co-created Seinfeld, for one
thing,
and now stars in his own series, Curb
Your Enthusiasm. And David herself
travels in privileged Hollywood
circles. But she flips their good
fortune on its head, mining her
connections to actors, producers and
movie execs to advance populist
environmental campaigns. She’s the
engine behind the Detroit Project and
its controversial anti-SUV ads,
and
without her, one Santa Monica dealership
would not be leading the country in sales
of Toyota’s gas/electric hybrid, the Prius.
LA Weekly's Deborah Vankin
tells us how David puts celebrity activism
in the driver’s seat.
Antitrust Settlement Leads to New Competition in LA, Clevelandnew
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
04-02-2003 2:58 pm |
Industry News
Southland to Debut Two LA Weeklies This Summernew
Southland Publishing's David
Comden announces that his
company successfully bid for the New
Times LA assets that were put up for
sale in the wake of the consent decree
signed by New Times after a Department. of
Justice investigation of the paper's
closure. According to Comden,
Southland, which owns AAN members
Pasadena Weekly and Ventura County
Reporter as well as applying paper San
Diego CityBeat, "plans to open two (Los
Angeles) newsweeklies, CityBeat
LA and ValleyBeat, by
summer."
Southland Publishing news release |
04-01-2003 1:17 pm |
Industry News
Black Muslim Sect Turns Cultishnew
Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan
spurned him, but that didn't stop
Maryland-based Royall Jenkins from
believing he was Allah. Jenkins
might have been unwelcome at the
Chicago headquarters of the Nation of
Islam, but he found streets paved with
gullibility in Kansas City, Kansas. There,
his daughter began recruiting members
to open up friendly businesses like Your
Diner, Your Supermarket, Your Service
Station and Your Colonic Center in a
forgotten slum. The United Nation of
Islam -- whose impeccably dressed
members possessed an almost
otherworldly politeness -- earned
praise from city officials and newspaper columnists. But as Pitch staff writer
Allie Johnson discovered, a
funny
thing happened on the way to Heaven.
Royall Jenkins started acquiring wives.
Recruits began turning over their homes
and property to the United Nation of
Islam. Members' children ended up in a
school where the principal had only a
sixth-grade education. One child died
under suspicious circumstances.
And Allah's daughter, the Mother of
Civilization, started coming to her senses.
Hoosiers: It's a St. Louis Thingnew
The meaning of the term "hoosier" has been a matter of debate for centuries. And it seems the more the word is studied, the muddier its definition becomes. "It's absolutely lost any derogatory meaning in Indiana," says Indiana University librarian Jeffrey Graf. St. Louis vernacular suggests otherwise where the term is synonymous with "cheap beer, fast cars and fat girls." Author Thomas E. Murray notes that in St. Louis, "hoosier" occupies "the honored position of being the city's No. 1 term of derogation." The Riverfront Times' Mike Seely dissects the term -- both in St. Louis and in Indiana -- and offers that there may be a little bit of hoosier in all of us, in spite of the term's apparent trashy underpinnings.
