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Sitcom About Alt-Weekly 'Percolating in the Script Stage' at ABCnew
That's according to Variety, which reports in its inimitable varietyese that "The Weekly" is a "single-camera workplace comedy ... set in the office of a dishy alternative weekly publication and blog." Huh? Furthermore, "project is penned" by the impossibly named Flint Wainess, according to The Bible of the Entertainment Industry.
Variety |
07-18-2008 11:24 am |
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Tags: Editorial, Management
Local Daily to Distribute Creative Loafing Tampanew
The paper formerly known as The Weekly Planet signed a distribution deal this week with the St. Petersburg Times, according to the Tampa Bay Business Journal. The Business Journal also reports that publisher Sharry Smith "assured the staff that protection clauses were added to the agreement to keep Creative Loafing stories confidential until the actual release date." Although the Business Journal says the agreement "cost 19 people jobs," Smith tells AAN only one staff person was laid off.
Tampa Bay Business Journal |
07-18-2008 10:57 am |
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David Carr's Memoir Excerpted in New York Times Magazinenew
"A thug who beat up women and a recovered crack addict raising twins -- both are the story of my life." That's how the former editor of Washington City Paper describes the tale he tells in "The Night of the Gun," which hits the street on Aug. 5.
New York Times |
07-17-2008 3:46 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial
Cleveland Free Times, RIPnew
After 16 years, Cleveland's oldest AAN member published its last issue today. Started by labor lawyer Richard Siegel in 1992, the alt-weekly survived even after its founder died a year later, always striving to remain faithful to his mission of providing "tough-minded, responsible and gutsy coverage of what's really going on in" Cleveland. Although Free Times survived a temporary shutdown in 2002-03, this time it appears to be closing for good. In its final issue, the paper publishes a series of tributes, remembrances, and critiques.
Cleveland Free Times |
07-16-2008 7:43 pm |
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Russia's 'The eXile' Returnsnew
The English-language alt-biweekly for Moscow's expat community was born anew this week as a webzine called The eXiled. "(O)ur job isn't done," says editor Mark Ames, who claims to have moved the publication's operations to Panama. "We've got a lot of bile yet to be pumped, a lot of unfinished business -- and thanks to our readers, we've got a little pot of money to fuel our insurgency against what we can only describe as 'the fucks.'" According to Ames, The eXile was closed last month when its investors pulled out and its editors fled the country after Russian authorities arrived at the paper's office and announced an "unplanned audit" of its editorial content.
The eXiled |
07-16-2008 5:31 pm |
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Tags: Editorial
Alt-Weekly Cartoonists Respond to The New Yorker's Obama Covernew
CJR asked several cartoonists to offer their two cents on the controversial cover, including Ruben Bolling ("Tom the Dancing Bug"), Derf ("The City"), Matt Bors ("The Idiot Box") and Keith Knight ("The K Chronicles"). The responses vary, with Derf staking out the most uncompromising position: "I thought it was hilarious," says Cleveland's edgiest and tallest cartoonist. "So many people are misinformed, and you can't draw to the morons of America. If you don't know that Obama isn't a Muslim, we can't help you."
Columbia Journalism Review |
07-16-2008 4:39 pm |
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Tags: Editorial, John Backderf
Former Altie Writes Book for the "Young, Hip, Cynical and Degenerate"new
So says Washington Post critic Patrick Anderson, who describes ex-Omaha Weekly (now Omaha Reader) news editor Jonathan Segura's "Occupational Hazards" as "a savagely funny first novel" that tells a "dungeon-dark tale of low-rent journalism, political corruption and rampant degeneracy in a hellish Omaha." According to Anderson, Segura joins ex-Philadelphia City Paper editor Duane Swierczynski as mystery writers whose work is part of a new trend in the publishing business of releasing offbeat novels direct to paperback.
Washington Post |
07-15-2008 12:32 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, The Reader
AAN Member Executive Passes Away
Bob Thomas, one of the original organizers of the annual AAN West conference held each year in San Francisco, died on Saturday after a long bout with a neurological disease which he battled valiantly for a number of years, according to his colleagues at the Palo Alto Weekly. Thomas served as the general manager of East Bay Express before joining PAW-parent Embarcadero Publishing, where he launched Pleasanton Weekly in 2000 and facilitated the start-up of another community weekly several years later. Bob is survived by his wife Candy and their two children, according to an email circulated by ex-Embarcadero VP Franklin Elieh, who called his best friend "a gentle giant (who) treated everyone with respect." Funeral services will be held Saturday, Aug. 9 at the Presbyterian Church in Burlingame, Calif.
AAN Staff |
07-15-2008 11:29 am |
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Tags: Management, Palo Alto Weekly
The Stranger Honors Departing Managing Editornew
Friday was Bradley Steinbacher's last day at The Stranger. The paper's nameplate (pictured) was adjusted this week in his honor, and the staff celebrated with a tenderly worded send-off from public editor A. Birch Steen, along with a series of blog posts too voluminous to link to, including this one, which was iPhoned in by Brad's boss, Dan.
The Stranger |
07-14-2008 4:21 pm |
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Tags: Editorial, The Stranger
Guest Blogger Quits, Rates Mention in Time Magazinenew
The Stranger's first guest blogger, Chelsea Alvarez-Bell, quit last month because of the "vicious bullies" who tormented her in the Slog's comments section. This week Lev Grossman ledes with the incident in his column in Time Magazine decrying "the horribleness of commenters."
Time Magazine/The Stranger |
07-14-2008 3:54 pm |
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Tags: Editorial, The Stranger
Former LA Weekly Writer Talks About New HBO Seriesnew
After writing a couple of significant freelance pieces for the Weekly, Evan Wright embedded with the U.S. Marines' in 2003 as they crossed the Kuwaiti border at the beginning of the Iraq War. Wright wrote a book about the experience called "Generation Kill," and the creators of the widely lauded HBO series "The Wire" made the book into a seven-episode miniseries that premiered last night on the pay-cable network.
LA Weekly |
07-14-2008 3:19 pm |
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Tags: Editorial, L.A. Weekly
Hawaii Island Journal Editor Plans to Launch 'Some Kind of Publication'new
Peter Serafin has told Hunter Bishop that he and his staff hope are planning to have a publication out next month. The Journal ceased publishing last month, one week after it was accepted as a member of AAN. It is unclear if the new publication will be a resurrected Journal, or something entirely new.
HunterBishop.com |
07-11-2008 5:20 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Management, Hawaii Island Journal
Rebecca Schoenkopf on Taking Over at CityBeat and Leaving the OCnew
The "Commie Girl" columnist and former OC Weekly staffer was named editor of Los Angeles CityBeat this Spring amidst a relaunch of the paper. She says she's already receiving hate mail. One person wrote in to ask: "'Who's this inane, vulgar, rambling, trite girl who's a terrible writer and has a potty mouth'," she tells the Guardian. "And I was like, 'You live in Los Angeles, are you really that sheltered?'" Schoenkopf also says that she's now realized she willing blinded herself about notoriously conservative Orange County while she was there. "It's not the conservatism that bothers me: it's the nastiness," she says The nattering classes I'd thought were fringey were in fact the decision makers."
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
07-11-2008 8:04 am |
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Seattle Weekly Columnist Inks Book Dealnew
Penguin imprint Gotham Books has signed the "Uptight Seattleite" columnist to do a book version of his popular advice column. Publication date is set for Spring 2010.
Seattle Weekly |
07-11-2008 7:21 am |
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The Village People Use Village Voice Classifieds to Recruit Membersnew
WWNY-TV |
07-11-2008 7:42 am |
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