― sleeve (sleeve), Friday, 2 February 2007 06:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― novamax (novamax), Friday, 2 February 2007 16:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 2 February 2007 16:35 (seventeen years ago) link
It's a great song ... maybe doesn;t apply here, but hey, it's a nice plug for Linda Thompson anyway. :-)
― O'Connor (OConnorScribe), Friday, 2 February 2007 17:03 (seventeen years ago) link
indeed.
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 2 February 2007 17:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― under a rock (Uncle Tom), Friday, 2 February 2007 17:45 (seventeen years ago) link
Besides, methinks Mr. Lomax's entry into this discussion is fairly credible. :-)
― O'Connor (OConnorScribe), Friday, 2 February 2007 18:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 2 February 2007 18:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― O'Connor (OConnorScribe), Friday, 2 February 2007 18:50 (seventeen years ago) link
BTW, I'm of the opinion the essay is real. It's totally consistent with a longtime NT tradition of responding in print to opponents amd detractors -- most of which are breathtaking and wonderful (Mike Lacey's volleys against Bruce Brugman are awesome). This one, however, is neither.
And other stuff which i'm not going to look up now. I know they let you go and you always talk very interestingly about how shitty they are in some ways, but you also seem to still kind of love them and defend them. That said, I don't want to cast aspersions on you, you seem okay to me! Forget I said anything.
― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 2 February 2007 19:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― O'Connor (OConnorScribe), Friday, 2 February 2007 19:12 (seventeen years ago) link
-- O'Connor (oconnorscrib...), July 25th, 2006.
keep in mind that NT music editors' weekly columns are mandated, on top of the other 250 taxing things they're charged with. So consequently, you're exceptionally lucky if 3.5 out of 10 of them don't suck -- kinda like batting in baseball. In that respect, Rob is Ichiro among the NT music columnists. :-)
-- O'Connor (oconnorscrib...), July 26th, 2006.
― Roy Kasten (Roy Kasten), Friday, 2 February 2007 19:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― O'Connor (OConnorScribe), Friday, 2 February 2007 19:14 (seventeen years ago) link
OH CRAP NOW I'M DOING IT
― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 2 February 2007 19:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― Rockist Scientist, Sunday, 4 March 2007 17:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― Matos W.K., Monday, 5 March 2007 08:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― fukasaku tollbooth, Friday, 16 March 2007 18:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― fukasaku tollbooth, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 23:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jiminy Krokus, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 13:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― Rockist Scientist, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 13:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― maura, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 13:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 14:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― David R., Wednesday, 4 April 2007 14:37 (seventeen years ago) link
first question: will they let liz spikol keep vlogging????
― fukasaku tollbooth, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 17:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― Matos W.K., Thursday, 5 April 2007 00:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 5 April 2007 16:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― curmudgeon, Friday, 6 April 2007 13:23 (seventeen years ago) link
Another music editor down:
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2007/07/la_weekly_assigned_new_mu.php
― Martin Van Burne, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 20:14 (sixteen years ago) link
Kate Sullivan was also a great and longtime City Pages writer.
― Pete Scholtes, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 20:36 (sixteen years ago) link
Gah they still owe me $$$
― That mong guy that's shit, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 21:26 (sixteen years ago) link
Randy was my editor way back when at pre-New Times Riverfront Times. He was ace. And he's always worth reading, even when he's wrong. Expect hip-hip, electronica and world music to get a smart bump.
― Roy Kasten, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 22:31 (sixteen years ago) link
Village Voice Media is still highlighting Kate Sullivan's Second Place Southern California Journalism award for Entertainment Reviews/Criticism/Column...
Randall Roberts did a statistical analysis of Dave Marsh's entries in the Rolling Stone Record Guide at the 2006 EMP and something on Creem in 2007
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 04:15 (sixteen years ago) link
New Times owns the RFT?!
― Tape Store, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 04:24 (sixteen years ago) link
Only for the last 5 years or whatever.
― Roy Kasten, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 12:04 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/24/AR2007072402024.html
City Paper Sold to Tampa Alt-Weekly Group Editor, Publisher to Remain; No Big Changes Planned, New Owner Says
By Frank Ahrens Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, July 25, 2007; Page D04
The Washington City Paper has been sold to group of alternative weeklies based in Tampa.
Creative Loafing Inc., which owns newspapers in Atlanta, Charlotte and Sarasota, Fla., in addition to Tampa, and bills itself as "shelter from the mainstream," bought the City Paper and its sister publication, the Chicago Reader, for an undisclosed amount.
The seller, Chicago Reader Inc., will continue to own stakes in the Amsterdam Weekly in the Netherlands, the Portland (Ore.) Mercury as well as the Stranger, the Seattle weekly that is home to syndicated sex columnist Dan Savage. The company also owns the building in Adams Morgan that houses the City Paper.
The new owners of the City Paper said they do not intend to change the paper's name or make radical alterations to the product. Ben Eason, Creative Loafing's chief executive, said yesterday that he asked City Paper editor Erik Wemple and publisher Amy Austin to remain, and both agreed.
Bob Roth, who co-founded the Chicago Reader in 1971 as an "extracurricular project" when he was a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Chicago, said Eason contacted him five months ago and eventually made an offer for the two papers. Eason said it is an eight-figure sale and that he tried to buy the stakes in the other papers, too, but Roth would not sell.
City Paper budget cuts already begun will continue, Wemple said, though he said he was not sure where they will come from. "There's no fat in our newsroom that I can identify, and so this is difficult process," Wemple said. "I refuse to pay freelancers less money, and so we'll have to get terribly, terribly creative."
Eason said cuts could come from City Paper's production staff; all Creative Loafing papers are produced and printed in Atlanta to save money.
More than mainstream daily newspapers, alternative weeklies depend on revenue from classifieds, which have been raided by Craigslist. Further, Washington's recent raft of free newspapers -- Express, owned by The Washington Post Co., the Examiner and now the Onion -- all compete for ad dollars that once were nearly exclusive property of the City Paper. It remains profitable, but its margins have shrunk.
"Clearly, alternatives took the first hit on Craigslist," Eason said. "The Chicago Reader was the strongest classifieds publication in the country, and it has taken more of its fair share of hits on that."
With six papers, Creative Loafing will trail Village Voice Media, the nation's largest chain of alt-weeklies, which has 17, including the storied Voice.
In May 2006, Wemple was named editor of the Voice. But he clashed with management, quit the job before he started and stayed at the City Paper. Yesterday, Wemple said he had no regrets for not sticking with the Village Voice job.
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 29 July 2007 05:23 (sixteen years ago) link
tape store RFT is fucking terrible to be honest. ESPECIALLY when compared to vv/city pages and even miami new times.
― Jordan Sargent, Sunday, 29 July 2007 05:27 (sixteen years ago) link
x-post
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/index.php/2007/07/24/washington-city-paper-sold-to-atlanta-chain/
Wemple later indicated to editorial staff that the editorial budget is likely to be cut in the coming months to bring City Paper’s editorial expenses in line with other alternative weeklies, but he indicated that similar cuts would likely have come under the old ownership
Wonderful Schmonderful Says: Jul. 25, 2007, at 11:38 am If the Loaf is a wonderful paper, it’s not even half as wonderful as the City Paper, if AltWeekly Awards are any measure: According to aan.org, the flagship Atlanta Creative Loafing (founded 1972) has won 18 awards over the years; CP (founded 1981) has won 47.
Adding the other the three Loaf papers into the total produces a whole eight more awards. Adding the Chicago Reader (founded 1971) results in another 27 awards. Final score of combined wonderfulness: home team 74, visitors 26.
But even without the Reader’s help–and handicapped by having to play nine years of catch-up–CP is quantifiably better than CL by more than 100 percent. (Start tallying prestigious food- and drama-criticism wins and the buyout looks even more ominous.) Of course, that’s just what a bunch of seasoned journalism folks and awards-committee cranks think. Haters should now jump on the fact that AAN has also given Cherkis five awards and Wemple two.
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 29 July 2007 15:57 (sixteen years ago) link
Chicago Reader's editor's memo regarding their new owners:
http://poynter.org/forum/view_post.asp?id=12750
As for the future, this changeover shouldn't be regarded, as one blog commenter put it, as a sad day for the city of Chicago. The paper and Web site that so many Chicagoans depend on isn't going anywhere, and you -- house staff, freelance writers, illustrators, photographers -- are going to continue to be its lifeblood.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 00:32 (sixteen years ago) link
NY Press sold
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/01/business/media/01press.html?_r=2&ref=media&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 2 August 2007 16:53 (sixteen years ago) link
There are officially no decent alt weeklies in NYC now. Does this place have any definable culture anymore?
― uhrrrrrrr10, Thursday, 2 August 2007 16:55 (sixteen years ago) link
Manhattan Media owns four community weekly papers: Our Town, The West Side Spirit, The Westsider and The Chelsea Clinton News, the oldest community paper in Manhattan.
Waht?
― o. nate, Thursday, 2 August 2007 17:44 (sixteen years ago) link
I heard the city reinvents itself and all but if that's the oldest...
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 2 August 2007 17:45 (sixteen years ago) link
Clinton is another name for Hell's Kitchen, the neighborhood right next to Chelsea.
According to their website, The Chelsea Clinton News has been around for 65 years.
― The Yellow Kid, Thursday, 2 August 2007 20:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Makes you wonder if Bill & Hill chose the name with that knowledge in mind...
― o. nate, Thursday, 2 August 2007 21:22 (sixteen years ago) link
Rumor has it that more such cuts just happened at the Washington City Paper.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 03:37 (sixteen years ago) link
Art and production moves to Atlanta 10-26. Creative Loafing budget cuts and production changes mean music coverage will be reduced further, and deadlines will be earlier.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 13 October 2007 05:17 (sixteen years ago) link
New Times / Village Voice Media head Lacey arrested.. for a very interesting reason.
http://www.kpho.com/news/14376424/detail.html
― sanskrit, Friday, 19 October 2007 19:29 (sixteen years ago) link
sorry, no titillation here, but a pretty fascinating story.
― sanskrit, Friday, 19 October 2007 19:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Yep
― curmudgeon, Friday, 19 October 2007 20:46 (sixteen years ago) link
Titillation provided in the form of inmates with pink underwear,
― The Reverend, Friday, 19 October 2007 20:58 (sixteen years ago) link