AAN News
Derf on Growing Up with Dahmernew
Andy Newman, editor of Pittsburgh City Paper, interviews John Backderf, "known to everyone but his mother simply as Derf." Derf's comic strip "The City" strip appears in more than 50 AAN member papers. Newman asks Derf about two comic books he
just
published, one called "My Friend Dahmer" about being high
school pals
with serial cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer and another about working on the back of a
garbage
truck.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
04-25-2002 11:01 am |
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Tags: Editorial, John Backderf
Clear Channel Empire To Control SF News Racksnew
Under a settlement with the city, Bay Area newspapers have agreed to let the city erect pedmounts in high-traffic areas. Problem is, a subsidiary of media conglomerate Clear Channel Communications will control those pedmounts, who gets to use them and what's advertised on the back. "The idea of giving
Clear Channel exclusive control over newspaper distribution -- and ad space on the back of the news racks -- in the city is extremely troubling," the San Francisco Bay Guardian writes.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
04-25-2002 9:54 am |
Industry News
Hate Crime in Little Five Pointsnew
You wouldn't think this could still happen, especially in one of Atlanta's rapidly gentrifying hip neighborhoods -- Little Five Points. But apparently racial hate is still alive and well in Atlanta. Three white supremacist drifters from California allegedly jumped two African-American brothers and beat them savagely. Creative Loafing Atlanta got the story first. Mara Shalhoup talked to the young men's mother and eyewitnesses and then tipped the author of Georgia's hate crime law, state Sen. Vincent Fort. The three alleged assailants are charged with aggravated battery and reckless conduct, and the police are investigating it as a hate crime. "It's horrendous," police spokesman Lt. John Quigley tells Shalhoup.
Scene Writer Moving to Knoxville's Metro Pulse
Bill Carey, a contributor to the Nashville Scene, will be moving to Knoxville this September to become editor of Metro Pulse. He will replace current Editor Jesse Mayshark, who is moving to New York. Metro Pulse also has a new managing editor, Scott McNutt, who has been the alt-weekly's monthly humor columnist. Mayshark, who is getting married this summer, says he wants to return to writing and reporting.
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AAN Staff |
04-22-2002 3:22 pm |
Industry News
Skateboard Rules for a New Economynew
Seventeen-year-old
Corey Duffel of
Walnut Creek,
California is the
closest thing the
skateboarding world
has to baseball's John
Rocker: a young
punk on the verge
of stardom whose
mouth gets him into trouble. But there's
no such
thing as bad publicity in skating. Even if
you drop
out of school, use the "N" word in a
magazine
article, and lose all your sponsors, you
still can get
back in the game if you (and your mom)
deliver
the appropriate mea culpas. And even if
you do a
spectacular face-plant during a
photo shoot that
leaves you with broken bones and
causes your
scrotum to swell up to the size of a
coconut, the
kids will forgive you if you come back in
style. East Bay Express staff
writer Justin Berton looks at the
peculiar
marketing mechanics of a sport that's
now bigger
than baseball among American
teens.
CityBeat Critic Still Banned at Art Movie Housenew
Bowing to reader pressure,
Cincinnati CityBeat has resumed
printing movie times for two art movie
houses after a nearly yearlong standoff
with the owner. City Beat's film critic,
Steve Ramos, is still banned at
the theaters, and the owner, Gary
Goldman, still won't allow CityBeat racks
in the lobby. Ramos made Goldman mad
last June by revealing that Goldman had
ordered three XXX seconds of film
snipped out of the movie, The Center
of the World. "We will not, however,
apologize for br eaking the unauthorized
editing story last year, nor will we
apologize for criticizing Goldman's
handling of the situation,"
Co-Publisher and Editor John
Fox writes.
Cincinnati CityBeat |
04-18-2002 9:59 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial
