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The Big Burn: Bush's Forestry Plan Courts Its Own Disasternew
George Bush's forestry plan does a nice job of opening up public lands to abusive logging practices, but it won't extinguish one wildfire or put out one house fire, Joshua Malbin writes in LA Weekly. "Bush would essentially give the Forest Service or the Bureau of Land Management
license to do anything, provided it called what it was doing a 'fuels-treatment
project.' Bush has made it clear he plans to use this license to dramatically increase
logging, " Malbin writes. At the same time Bush manages to blame "radical environmentalists" and the Clinton administration for this summer's massive wildfires.
City Pages' Publisher Raids Brother's Staffnew
Steve Perry, a former editor of City Pages (Twin Cities), will return to his old job, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports. Perry has been writing for The Rake, a new monthly started by Tom Bartel, brother of City Pages Publisher Mark Bartel. Perry replaces Tom Finkel, who was fired in July. Perry is the second former editor restored at a Village Voice Media paper this week, following Skip Berger's return to Seattle Weekly.
Minneapolis Star Tribune |
08-30-2002 10:57 am |
Industry News
Wave of Immigrants Revitalizing Baltimorenew
A new wave of refugees in Baltimore could revitalize its struggling neighborhoods, Nicole Leistikow writes in Baltimore City Paper. Leistikow, who has volunteered for the International Rescue Committee, says an afternoon on a Baltimore street corner can show a "woman in flowing robes carrying groceries on her head; friends stopping on the sidewalk to chat in
African-accented French; too-cool European teenagers trying to win an argument with their parents in
Serbo-Croatian."
Scenes like this are becoming familiar not only in major American cities. Even smaller towns are trying to attract immigrant energy.
Alt-Weekly Writers Appear in Da Capo Collection
“This book, I hope, is a book of encounters, none of them predictable,” novelist and music writer Jonathan Lethem writes in his introduction to “Da Capo Best Music Writing 2002.” Seven of the 28 articles in the collection were originally published in alternative newsweeklies, including The Village Voice, Chicago Reader and City Pages (Twin Cities).
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AAN Staff |
08-30-2002 1:54 pm |
Industry News
San Diego CityBEAT Premieresnew
San Diego CityBEAT published its inaugural issue last Wednesday, and the daily responds, "Bring it on." David L. Coddon writing in The San Diego Union-Tribune's weekly arts and entertainment guide, "Night & Day," says the new alt-weekly is trying to get a jump on both the daily and its 30-year-old alternative newsweekly rival, San Diego Reader, by publishing a day earlier. "Another 'voice' in local print media isn't bad," Coddon says.
The San Diego Union-Tribune |
08-29-2002 12:30 pm |
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"Poverty Pimp" Pays Legal Fees in Libel Suitnew
Danny Bakewell's libel suit against New Times Los Angeles' columnists Rick Barrs (also the paper's editor) and Jill Stewart backfired. Stewart calls Bakewell "a multimillionaire developer and obnoxious black nationalist," as well as a "poverty pimp" for using money collected by the Brotherhood Crusade, ostensibly a charity, for his personal enrichment. The judge saw nothing wrong with using this term to describe Bakewell and ordered him to pay $25,000 to the alternative newsweekly.
New Times Los Angeles |
08-29-2002 10:55 am |
Industry News
Bay Guardian Announces "Project Censored" Winnersnew
"Immediately after Sept. 11 the United States media went into lapdog mode," A.C. Thompson writes in the San Francisco Bay Guardian. Announcing this year's top 10 most censored stories from Project Censored, the Guardian praises those reporters and publications that never stopped asking the hard questions or writing the disturbing stories.
Straight Man McLeod Shakes up Sales
From a rebellious underground paper in the '60s, The Georgia Straight has grown to a 120,000 weekly circulation institution in Vancouver, B.C. It hasn't gotten that way by resting on its hippie laurels. Publisher Dan McLeod demonstrates that by once again shaking up his sales department, firing a vice president and parting ways with the consultant who helped double the paper's sales. "There's going to be some loud howling, but it's a way to grow the business," McLeod tells AAN News.
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Ann Hinch |
08-29-2002 4:21 pm |
Industry News
Animated Film in Works from Michael Moore & Tom Tomorrownew
Dan Perkins, who pens the
cartoon "This Modern World" as Tom
Tomorrow, says he and Michael Moore
are teaming up on an animated
feature film. "It will be a
fictional, satirical narrative film, the look of
which will be based on my work,"
Perkins says in a news release. He and
Moore have been working on the
screenplay since last October and expect
to start pre-production in a few
months.
Dan Perkins, aka Tom Tomorrow, news release |
08-28-2002 1:05 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Design & Production, Editorial
"Crossing Division Street:" An Essay on Racenew
"How do white people learn what to think about race? It's best not to think about it." That's the conclusion Jim Schutze of the Dallas Observer comes to after delving into his own childhood and adolescent memories of growing up in the South. He worked months on this story after being challenged by an author who said black writers are always expected to write very personally about race, while white writers "always get to lie back a little." No more. Schutze went deep and came up with some weird and uncomfortable memories.
