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A Texan's Take on the First Amendment

Jared Jacang Maher  |  07-20-2004  7:28 pm  |  Association News

Village Voice Art Critic Discusses His Craft and New Booknew

Jerry Saltz knows it hurts to be criticized, but, he tells ArtsJournal.com, "If all criticism is enthusiastic it sells the art world short." He remembers after he wrote his first piece for the Voice, on Kara Walker's "painful, uneven show" at Wooster Gardens in 1998, he was terrified he'd be fired. A collection of his Village Voice reviews and essays, "Seeing Out Loud," has been published by The Figures press.
ArtsJournal.com  |  07-16-2004  6:21 pm  |  Industry News

Former Philadelphia City Paper Columnist Publishes Debut Novelnew

Between being an alt-weekly columnist and writing her novel, "The Big Love," Sarah Dunn worked as a Hollywood sitcom writer. Her novel is about an alt-newsweekly columnist who struggles to come to terms with her evangelical Christian background after her boyfriend abandons her. "Dunn stresses that many of the quirky and salacious character details came straight from her imagination, and not from her actual experiences at CP," Philadelphia City Paper's Arts & Books Editor Lori Hill writes.
Philadelphia City Paper  |  07-14-2004  6:48 pm  |  Industry News

Catholic Paper Questions Alt-Weekly's Availability to Childrennew

Pittsburgh Catholic apparently believes that its hometown alt-weekly should be wrapped in a brown bag and handed out from behind the counter. "We need to ensure that our children are protected from unhealthy and exploitative images of sexuality," says a representative of the local diocese who thinks it's "unconscionable" that Pittsburgh City Paper is openly distributed in public. “I’m not running a day care center,” City Paper editor Andy Newman tells the paper. “I have a newspaper, and I feel like other people are responsible for supervising their own children.”
Pittsburgh Catholic  |  07-12-2004  6:06 pm  |  Industry News

Boulder to Get New Daily-Owned Youth-Oriented Papernew

Dirt is the name of the free weekday newspaper Boulder Publishing Co. will debut Aug. 20. The paper, which is geared toward the 18- to 24-year-old market, will be distributed in and around the University of Colorado campus, reports the Daily Camera, which is also owned by Boulder Publishing. The new paper will compete in the same market as AAN member Boulder Weekly.
The Daily Camera  |  07-08-2004  11:23 am  |  Industry News

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