AAN News
AAN Board Member Gets Married by East Bay Express
The Santa Barbara Independent's Robby Robbins, who is AAN's Classified Advertising Chair, was married on July 2 to longtime partner Bryan O'Quinn as part of the Express' Wedding Wednesdays promotion. The paper chose six couples to be married to celebrate same-sex couples' newfound right to legally marry in California. In attendance at the July 2 ceremony were a number of Independent staffers who drove up from Santa Barbara, as well as Gloria Mock, advertising director of North Carolina's Independent Weekly, where Robbins previously worked. "Bryan and I are so grateful to the East Bay Express, [publisher] Jody Colley, and all
their partners/vendors for making this wonderful time more spectacular than
we could ever have imagined," Robbins tells AAN News via email. For more photos click here, and for a video montage of all six weddings, click here.
AAN News |
07-22-2008 1:38 pm |
Industry News
Las Vegas Weekly Editor Returns After Stint at Vegas' Other AAN Paper
Scott Dickensheets, who left the Weekly to become special projects editor at Las Vegas CityLife in February, is once again editor of the Weekly, according to a press release. "We're fortunate to have Scott back in the saddle," says Bruce Spotleson, group publisher for Weekly parent company Greenspun Media Group. "He's one of the most talented journalists in Nevada, and one of the best editors I've ever been associated with."
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Las Vegas Weekly Press Release |
07-22-2008 10:27 am |
Press Releases
John Yarmuth Offers His Two Cents on the LEO Salenew
LEO's founder, who currently represents Kentucky's Third Congressional District in Congress, says that the recent sale of the paper to SouthComm Communications was "probably a good thing." He tells the 'Ville Voice that the former owners "had lost interest" over the past few years, and that "their business plan wasn't working," because it was based on owning a chain of alt-weeklies, and they only ended up with two. "[SouthComm] obviously cares about the paper, it's part of a business plan that they've already executed, to a certain extent, because they already own multiple papers," Yarmuth says. "Not all are alt-weeklies but they are in the region so they can do regional ad buys and so forth. I think it will be good for the paper."
The 'Ville Voice |
07-22-2008 10:00 am |
Industry News
Will The Village Voice's Siren Festival Have to Relocate?new
The Voice's annual indie rock festival, which celebrated its 8th installment this weekend, may have to find a new location if the redevelopment of Coney Island breaks ground next year as some expect, the New York Times reports. "Siren isn't the most comfortable of rock festivals. The sound systems are mediocre and the pedestrian routes between the stages are irrational," the Times notes. "But Siren does place the tattooed-nerd fashion sense of indie rock in the diverting context of Coney Island's other freaks and sideshows." However, the redevelopment would eliminate these freaks and sideshows and the entire old amusement area, which could mean an end to Siren at Coney Island. "It's my first time here," Broken Social Scene's Kevin Drew said as the band ended its set this weekend. "I don't want it to be the last."
The New York Times |
07-22-2008 9:36 am |
Industry News
Tags: Marketing, The Village Voice
Bob Thomas' Former Paper Remembers His Lifenew
Thomas, who passed away on July 12, was the first president of Pleasanton Weekly, owned by Palo Alto Weekly parent company Embarcadero Publishing. He was an original organizer of AAN West, and also worked for the East Bay Express. "For those who knew Bob, his accomplishments come as no surprise," says Embarcadero CFO Mike Naar. "Even so, they pale in comparison to the grace, good-naturedness and intelligent practicality he brought to work every day. His sense of humor, his incredible optimism, and his evenness defined the remarkable prince of a human being Bob was. We will all deeply miss him." Funeral services will be held Saturday, Aug. 9 at the Presbyterian Church in Burlingame, Calif. MORE: Read Thomas' obituary in the San Francisco Chronicle.
Pleasanton Weekly |
07-22-2008 8:38 am |
Industry News
Dan Pulcrano Talks GeoDomains at Chicago Exponew
Domain Name Journal |
07-22-2008 3:56 pm |
Industry News
Media Coalition Urges Senators to Support Shield Law
Shield Law Coalition Press Release |
07-22-2008 12:42 pm |
Press Releases
Tags: Editorial, Management
New Editor Named at New York Press in Editorial Shuffle
Replacing David Blum as editor-in-chief of the Press is Jerry Portwood, who was previously the paper's managing editor. Blum becomes editor of 02138, the bi-monthly magazine acquired in May by Press parent company Manhattan Media. Blum's move coincides with a major re-launch of the luxury lifestyle magazine for Harvard alumni.
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Manhattan Media Press Release |
07-21-2008 2:20 pm |
Press Releases
Maui Time Weekly Publisher Honored by Weekly Business Paper
Tommy Russo, owner and publisher of Maui Time Weekly, has been chosen as one of Pacific Business News' annual "Forty Under 40" honorees, AAN News has learned. Meant to highlight Hawaii's top rising young businesspeople, the awards were handed out at a June 26 ceremony. Russo, who founded Maui Time in 1996, was previously named Maui's Young Business Person of the Year in 2005.
AAN News |
07-21-2008 12:53 pm |
Honors & Achievements
Alt-Weekly Writers React to 'The Weekly'
"I suspect I know how this new show, tentatively titled The Weekly, is gonna go," writes Washington City Paper's Mark Athitakis about a sitcom "set in the office of a dishy alternative weekly publication and blog" that ABC is considering. "I've seen plenty of portrayals of journalists on TV after all," he writes, before offering some sample dialogue. "Don't think what follows is funny? Fine; the show is being produced by a co-creator of The King of Queens, so I'm just being spot-on." Salt Lake City Weekly's Bill Frost says he's curious about the new venture because he had a similar idea. "I wrote a sitcom pilot script about an alt-weekly newspaper office four years ago and submitted it to Bravo's reality-competition show Situation: Comedy," Frost writes. "Sure, my script sucked -- but it was still better than any Fox comedy of the last decade or so. ... Maybe I'd better dust that dog off and submit it to The CW ... while they're still in business."
Washington City Paper | Salt Lake City Weekly |
07-21-2008 12:17 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Management
Jules Feiffer: 'I Wouldn't Have Been a Cartoonist' Without the Voicenew
The Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist spoke with Brian Heater from the Daily Cross Hatch blog after a recent event celebrating the release of Explainers, a hardbound volume of the early Village Voice strips that first put Feiffer on the map. He talked about how hard it was to get his work published in the 1950s. "The political times were essentially not friendly to satire. This was just after Joe McCarthy, and there was still a very oppressive atmosphere, particularly in terms of what the media was and wasn't willing to print," Feiffer says. "The Voice, as it appeared, was the one independent newspaper that was likely to run me, if anyone was going to run me. If The Voice wasn't going to run me, I would have run out of choices and would have had to do something else with my life."
The Daily Cross Hatch |
07-21-2008 12:00 pm |
Industry News
Tags: The Village Voice
Judge Denies SF Weekly's Motion for New Trial Against Guardiannew
With little comment, Judge Marla Miller on Friday denied requests from SF Weekly to overturn the verdict in favor of the Bay Guardian or to order a new trial, the Guardian reports. The ruling means the predatory-pricing case will likely head to the California Court of Appeal.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
07-21-2008 8:14 am |
Industry News
East Bay Express' 'Best of the East Bay' Party Was 'Hella Fun'new
Amoeba Records' Blog |
07-21-2008 12:48 pm |
Industry News
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 |
Industry News
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 |
Industry News
