What happens to bones that hikers stumble upon in the woods depends on how old they are, Andy Smetanka writes in the Missoula Independent. He explores the various routes bones take and describes the work of the coroners, forensic pathologists, anthropologists, zoologists, law enforcement officials and Native American tribes who are involved in solving the puzzle of the remains' origin. Smetanka's article is one of many stories from alternative weeklies featured in the Health & Science section of AltWeeklies.com.
David Holthouse was arrested Saturday for allegedly stalking the man he wrote about in Westword's May 13 cover story. In "Stalking the Bogeyman," Holthouse described a plan to kill the man who he says raped him when he was a 7-year-old boy. He put that plan aside after his parents discovered the assault. Holthouse says the stalking charges came after he asked a friend to watch the alleged rapist's house to make sure the man wouldn't retaliate against Holthouse's parents, Sean Kelly reports in the Denver Post.
According to a report conducted by NOP World for Nokia, mobile phone users say they would pay 28% more than their current mobile fees for mobile content services. On the other hand, among respondents who have never used mobile content, 48% say they would if the services were cheaper. The key to these somewhat conflicting findings is the age of the respondents, with younger people more apt to pay more for the services.
One of this summer's new movies is Brian Dannelly's "Saved!", which is about a girl's self-defeating attempt to seduce her gay boyfriend into being heterosexual. East Bay Express reviewer Melissa Levine describes the film as "an amusing if facile comedy about a good Christian girl gone wrong." Although the story fell flat for her, it inspired Scott Martineau of Boston's Weekly Dig. He calls "Saved!" "a brilliant satire of evangelical Christians" and "an extremely smart film." Read different takes on films by reviewers at alt-weeklies across the U.S. and Canada in the Movies section of AltWeeklies.com.
In a study sure to be controversial, Deutsche Bank says TV ads don't work for mature package good brands. The study, released on the eve of the TV buying upfront, examined 23 household, personal-care, food and beverage brands using customized marketing-mix analysis from Information Resources Inc. It found only 18% generated a positive return on investment (ROI) in the short term (a year or less) from TV advertising. Less than half (45%) saw their TV investment pay off long term.
The Conference Board reported Thursday that its help-wanted index dropped one point for the month of April to 38. The index for March was 39. For the same period last year, the index stood at 37.
Outgoing Cleveland Free Times editor-in-chief David Eden used to work for Barney, the purple dinosaur, Connie Schultz reports in The Plain Dealer. Schultz takes issue with reporting in the alt-weekly's "The Nose," which Eden described to her as "a snarky gossip column," and with news coverage at Channel 19, where Eden will soon become managing editor. But, she writes, "a guy who used to cavort with Barney can't be all bad."
In 1974, obscure composer/performer Rodd Keith fell to his death from an L.A. freeway overpass in a drug-addled haze. Tzadik Records has just released "Ecstacy to Frenzy," a compilation of Keith's previously unreleased studio tracks. One track is like "hallucinogenic funeral-parlor music," Sara Bir reports in the North Bay Bohemian. She recommends the intriguing release for "complete music dorks only." Read this and other reviews of the works of musicians both famous and obscure in the Music section of AltWeeklies.com, the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies' new Web site.
Julia Child never took aspiring cooks to the places where Missoula Independent food columnist Chef Boy Ari, aka Ari LeVaux, does. Here he speaks of his guide to finding morels, Black Dog: "He flipped to a photo of a sinister looking blood-red bolete. Boletus satanas. He looked at me and raised his eyebrows. ‘Would you eat that?'" Discover Ari's column, "Flash in the Pan," in the Culture section of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies' new Web site, AltWeeklies.com.
The alt-weekly has been advertising a text-messaging application known as txt2flirt, which is intended to appeal especially to young adults, Jennifer Saba reports in Editor & Publisher. Those who register can ask to be matched with someone else nearby and then tap out messages to communicate with a prospective friend or date. Each message costs 50 cents to send, and a share of the resulting income goes to the paper. The company that develops and handles the technology, g8wave, is a division of Tele-Publishing International, which is a division of Phoenix Media/Communications Group. The group owns The Boston Phoenix.
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