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The Stranger Salutes Genius with Cakenew
Seattle, Wash., alt-weekly The Stranger has tabbed five creative types for its annual Genius Awards, reports Regina Hackett of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. The awards, which Stranger editor-in-chief Dan Savage describes as a middle ground between the MacArthur and Publishers Clearinghouse Awards, debuted in 2003. Like last year, each of this year's winners receives a cake frosted with the words "You're a genius!" and a promise of $5,000. A party for the winners will be held Oct. 15 at Western Bridge, a Seattle art space.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
09-28-2004 5:10 pm |
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Dan Savage Ties Knot with Lesbian Reporternew
Amy Jenniges, a reporter for The Stranger, was denied a marriage license to legalize her relationship with her longtime lesbian partner. To make a point about the so-called sanctity of marriage, Jenniges' gay editor, Dan Savage, asked if he could get a license to marry her. Because the two met the man-woman criterion, the King County Clerk's office granted the license. Savage told Matt Markovich of KOMO 4 News in Seattle that he and the woman he doesn't love planned to stay married just 55 hours and 10 minutes in order to best Britney Spears.
KOMO TV |
04-13-2004 11:04 am |
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Officials Didn't Want Dan Savage to Be Marital Test Casenew
King County Executive Ron Sims had to race ahead with his plan to challenge state law prohibiting gay marriage after the editor of The Stranger showed up at the courthouse on March 5 seeking a marriage license. Bob Young reports in The Seattle Times that gay marriage proponents wanted to have "hand-picked couples" challenge the law but feared the controversial author of the sex advice column Savage Love (pictured) might beat them to it.
Seattle Times |
03-09-2004 9:56 am |
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Dan Savage: "I want The Stranger to be conflicted and divided"new
In an interview with mediabistro.com, the editor/sex
columnist describes his contrarian
philosophy and his paper's brand of journalism
("The Stranger does advocacy journalism, and for the
politicians we like we stump like hell for them");
opines on what
separates good alt-weeklies from bad ("They
have a really great sense of play") and names the
ones he likes; and defines the
daily-newspaper problem in a nutshell: "(I)f
you don't have anything in your paper that's going
to upset a five-year-old then 35-year-olds are going
to look elsewhere for the kind of writing
that appeals to them and speaks to them."
mediabistro.com |
10-17-2003 1:35 pm |
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Tags: Editorial, Dan Savage
The Stranger's Leaders Avoid the Pollsnew
Dan Savage (in photo) and Tim Keck
haven't fully participated in the electoral
process lately, and their cross-town rivals are
calling
them on
it. Seattle Weekly's Mark Fefer culled
county voting records and determined that Editor
Savage missed several recent elections and
Publisher
Keck isn't registered to vote. Fefer contrasts their
actions with The Stranger's brash
encouragement to its readers to join the
political process.
Seattle Weekly |
09-25-2003 1:07 am |
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Tags: Dan Savage, Tim Keck
Lacey, Savage Respond to WSJ Commentarynew
When you call us wealthy monopolist
bullies, "(d)o you mean this in the
positive sense of wealthy, monopolist
bullies?" New Times' Michael
Lacey asks the Wall Street Journal,
which last week ran a commentary by
Daniel Akst on the New
Times-Village Voice Media antitrust
investigation. In his letter to the editor,
Lacey says the Justice Dept. "is trying to
create legal theory with this ... probe",
which he calls a "stunning grab for
unprecedented federal power." In a
separate letter, Dan Savage,
editor of The Stranger (and AAN Editorial
Awards Host-for-Life), says his paper
was "distressed to be lumped in with
other alternative weekly papers."
Wall Street Journal |
01-23-2003 6:04 pm |
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Dan Savage in His Old Stomping Groundsnew
Dan Savage, editor of The Stranger and
author of the syndicated sex column
"Savage Love," goes home to Chicago,
where Chicago Tribune arts critic Sid
Smith catches up with him. "How did this
North Side Catholic boy, the son of a
Chicago homicide cop, become
America's down-and-dirty (and gay)
sex columnist -- and, now, defender
of the Left?" Smith asks, and then
provides some answers.
Chicago Tribune |
12-06-2002 10:50 am |
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Tags: Dan Savage
Dan Savage Sets Awards Lunch on Fire
In one of the
most memorable events ever at an
AAN convention, Dan Savage
electrified the seventh annual Alternative
Newsweekly Awards affair with a
high-voltage performance that included
nearly naked waiters and publishers
shedding trousers. One attendee
called it "the best hour of
comedy I've ever seen." Savage's
fatwah: every first-place winner had to
drink a shot and shed an article of
clothing. Two-thirds of the way in,
he admitted, "I can't believe you are
all playing along. The power of one
pushy fag in AAN -- it's amazing."
(FULL STORY)
06-04-2002 4:18 pm |
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Dan Savage Takes Editorial Reins at The Stranger
"Who wouldn't want him?" publisher asks.
(FULL STORY)
Eileen Murphy |
05-09-2001 11:50 am |
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Three AAN Writers Honored by PEN USA West
Dan Savage's book wins first place for its personal look at adoption.
(FULL STORY)
Christine Iwan |
06-15-2000 11:50 am |
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