AAN News
E&P Editor Recalls "Between the Lines"new
Greg Mitchell had a silver screen moment
when he parlayed his long hair into a
photo shoot for the 1977 low-budget
film "Between the Lines." Set in Boston at
a fictitious alt-weekly, the Back Bay
Mainline was obviously modeled on the
two Boston papers then in a fight to
the death, the Phoenix and The Real
Paper. Jeff Goldblum went on to
become a star after playing the Mainline's
"scuzzy rock critic."
Editor & Publisher |
12-04-2002 9:59 am |
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Talking War in New Yorknew
How does a country on the edge of
war look? Four partiers board a
subway wearing fatigues and gas masks.
Frustration mounts at an anti-war protest
meeting. New York City is theoretically
divided into hot, warm, and cold zones of
chemical contamination. Graduate
journalism students at Columbia
University record their observations
as a series of vignettes for The Local
Planet Weekly "It's the same
approach we used for 'Seven Days at
Ground Zero,'" which won a 2002
Alternative Newsweekly Award for feature
writing, says Planet Editor Tom Grant,
who is also a Columbia graduate.
AAN Says TomPaine.com Piece "Filled With Misinformation"new
Responding to Michael Ryan's "It's Not Norman Mailer's Village Voice Anymore," which uses the anti-trust investigation of the New Times-Village Voice deal as a platform to excoriate alternative newspapers, AAN Executive Director Richard Karpel says, "The Village Voice and New Times are for-profit companies subject to the same economic rules as every other business: Their papers need to make money so they can pay employees and vendors, and if they don't they have to shut down."
TomPaine.com |
12-03-2002 6:31 pm |
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Tags: Richard Karpel
Inside the Monkey Housenew
Seattle is home to 800 nonhuman
primates, but the University of
Washington won't let anyone see them.
Seattle Weekly's Philip Dawdy
reveals why, in the cold war over
animal rights, the University of
Washington's primate research program
is a major target. Activists are outraged
over the treatment of these intelligent
animals, one-third of whom die
from the experimentation. Researchers
say without such research medicine
could not advance.
The Woman in the Ringnew
Texas boxer Valerie Mahfood has
had the crap kicked out of her by bar
bouncers for looking too much like a
man. She's had the crap kicked out
of her by inmates at a maximum-security
prison. Most recently, she's had the crap
kicked out of her -- on national TV, no
less -- by ring prodigy Laila Ali. But,
encouraged by her tough-talking,
cigar-smoking father, Mahfood takes a
licking and keeps on ticking. Dallas
Observer staff writer Rose Farley
talks to "A Girl Named Suicide," who may
just change the face of women's boxing.
ACE Weekly Owner Arrested on Felony Chargesnew
Rhonda Reeves, editor and publisher of the Lexington, Ky. alt-weekly, faces charges of wanton endangerment after she was accused of striking a deputy constable with her sport-utility vehicle. "She didn't know what she was being arrested for," says Reeves' attorney, who calls the charges unfounded. According to the complaint, Reeves struck the officer as he tried to serve her with a civil summons issued when Bank One sued her for defaulting on a line of credit. Reeves has filed a response disputing the bank's claim.
Lexington Herald-Leader |
11-27-2002 10:18 am |
Industry News
Dance Police Cracking Down in New Yorknew
Using a 1926 law that regulates dancing,
both Mayor Rudy Guiliani and now his
successor Michael Bloomberg are
sending cops into the warehouse
districts of Manhattan looking for
people illegally shaking their booties.
The city is using the law "to combat
quality-of-life complaints and
troublesome clubs," Tricia
Romano writes in The Village Voice.
Increasing the anger of booming club
operators, "the nightlife industry's sole
voice ... is not in favor of repealing the
law," she writes.
CBW's Early Days Recalled
Casco Bay Weekly's
co-founders, Monte Paulsen and
Gary Santaniello, mourn the closure of
the alternative newsweekly they opened
in 1988. "It was glorious,"
Paulsen says of the early days in
Portland, Maine, when the staff delivered
the paper by themselves and the
photographer worked in the staff
bathroom. The paper closed Nov. 21,
unable to stem financial losses
and fight off competition from the Portland
Phoenix.
(FULL STORY)
Marty Levine |
11-26-2002 2:40 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Management, Casco Bay Weekly
