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AAN Staff |
07-25-2002 12:29 pm |
Association News
A New Era for Illinois Times, Springfield’s Weekly Newspaper
07-25-2002 11:10 am |
Press Releases
Coe Named Seattle Weekly Publishernew
Terry Coe, former publisher of Riverfront Times, is the new publisher of Seattle Weekly, David Schneiderman, CEO of Village Voice Media announced today. Coe resigned from the St. Louis newsweekly in May after 17 years with the New Times organization.
Village Voice Media news release |
07-24-2002 5:32 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Management, Seattle Weekly
National Legislation Could Stifle Rave Culturenew
New anti-rave bills working their way through
Congress are meant to stick it to the makers of
illegal drugs, but music promoters say they'll be
a civil rights nightmare. H.R. 3782 would punish rave promoters for "reasonably knowing" that a controlled substance was used at their event. That broad, vague wording leaves the door wide open for police to arrest anyone who puts on a music festival, much less a rave. "It gives police more latitude to act on a whim or personal prejudices," performer/promoter Oliver Brown tells Mike Connor of Metro Santa Cruz.
Seattle Weekly Names New Publisher
07-24-2002 4:56 pm |
Press Releases
SLAMM Reincarnating as San Diego CityBeat
The ink is barely dry on the sale
of SLAMM, a San Diego music biweekly,
but the new owners have set Aug. 21 as
the launch date for a new redesigned
alternative newspaper, San Diego
CityBeat. The new weekly will target
the 21- to 45-year-old crowd and San
Diego's central university and historic
neighborhoods, Publisher Charles
Gerencser says. "I wouldn't have
moved my pregnant wife and sold my
house in Los Angeles, where I've lived my
whole life, if I didn't think this was going to
be an amazingly successful
venture," Gerencser says.
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AAN Staff |
07-23-2002 4:41 pm |
Industry News
Terror Algorithms in Your Shopping Listnew
Security agencies may already
be poring over your grocery list.
In a fit of anti-terror zeal, an eager beaver
at a national grocery chain gave
the company's records for all preferred
customers to three federal agencies,
Eric Baard of The Village Voice
reports. Meanwhile, security
forces, both public and private, are
devising ever more sophisticated
ways to spot potential terrorists. If
you like hummus, you might be in their
cross-hairs.
Finkel Fired from Editor's Post at City Pagesnew
Publisher Mark Bartel of City Pages (Twin Cities) has fired Editor Tom Finkel because they disagreed on whether the paper should change direction, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports. Finkel came to City Pages in 1997 from Miami New Times. "I don't want to play this like Tom and I have been butting heads for 4 1/2 years; I really like Tom,"
Bartel tells the daily. "I just felt like I wanted the editorial to take more chances, to be edgier."
Minneapolis Star Tribune |
07-23-2002 9:57 am |
Industry News
San Diego CityBeat Set to Launch August 21
07-23-2002 12:49 pm |
Press Releases
Transsexuals Struggle with Gender Transitionnew
Most people work out their gender identification as toddlers. Others don't. Leyla Kokmen of City Pages (Twin Cities) explores the world of transgendered people, those who don't fit in a culture that has only two pronouns -- he and she. "Do you really think I'd choose to go this way?" former drag queen Morgan O'Sullivan laments. "It's not fun. I wish I had been born a female. It would have been a lot less painful." As Kokmen details, the transition from one gender to the other, or even stopping somewhere in between, is a tortured process that ultimately brings peace to most who make the switch.
The Story of a Legendary Drug Kingpinnew
Friends and associates described him as a vampire: nocturnal, with a passing resemblance to Nosferatu, and a thirst for the party drug GHB, which he drank like blood. But "English Shaun" also was a keen businessman, a British stockbroker who now stands accused of masterminding the ecstasy-based drug ring that fueled the Phoenix rave scene of the 1990s. Before it fell apart in a haze of addiction, paranoia and competition from mobster Sammy "The Bull" Gravano, Shaun's empire reportedly grew to include scores of rave kids, some of them kept in company-funded apartments, where they rested up between sales runs. Phoenix New Times reporters Susy Buchanan and Brendan Joel Kelley chronicle the tale of drugs, sex, and money.
