Advertising expenditures rose to $31.5 billion in the first quarter of 2004, an increase of nearly 10% over the same period the year before, according to TNS Media Intelligence/CMR.
After being displaced by the Sudanese civil war, two orphaned Dinka refugees, Peter Dut and Santino Chuor, came to the U.S. to start over. Megan Mylan and Jon Shenk document the first year of the young men's new life in the film "Lost Boys of Sudan." Metro Silicon Valley reviewer Richard von Busack describes the film as a devastating study of the gulf between the U.S. and the rest of the planet. Read the latest film reviews in the Movies section of AltWeeklies.com.
Started nearly 10 years ago by soft-spoken software engineer Craig Newmark, Craigslist went from a small e-mail list of local events and parties to become a national and international phenomenon providing local residents with a cheap, simple way to sell junk, find a new job, or find a mate quickly. And as it has grown to encompass 45 cities -- with more to come -- Craigslist has resisted buyout offers and paid advertising while becoming a powerful alternative to daily newspaper and alternative-weekly classifieds -- especially in its hometown.
Four newspapers lead the pack with five nominations each for the Alternative Newsweekly Awards this year. They are Colorado Springs Independent, SF Weekly, L.A. Weekly and Orlando Weekly. The order of finish in each category of the ninth annual contest will be announced Friday, June 25, at the Alternative Newsweekly Awards luncheon at the AAN convention in San Antonio. New York Times media reporter David Carr will host this year’s awards luncheon.
Staff Sgt. Jimmy Massey remembers a man in a car suspected of containing explosives asking him, "Why did you kill my brother? We didn't do anything wrong," and he remembers a Marine running over to say, "You all just shot a guy with his hands up," and he remembers another man he let run away, with half of his badly cut foot trailing behind him. Freelance writer Paul Rockwell's interview of Massey, originally published in the Sacramento Bee, appears in Creative Loafing Charlotte and other alt-weeklies this week. The story is featured in the News & Features section of AltWeeklies.com.
Bob Grant, district attorney for Broomfield and Adams counties in Colorado, told the Denver Post's Sean Kelly Tuesday that David Holthouse's arrest was based solely on the suspicion that he followed an unnamed man over the weekend. The person Holthouse is accused of stalking is the man he says raped him when he was a 7-year-old. The 33-year-old Westword reporter is free on $2,500 bond.
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