Orlando's Metropolitan Bureau of Investigation (MBI) tells WFTV-TV they used massage parlor ads in the Orlando alt-weekly to nab Li Ping Ding, a "ringleader" who was "running prostitution out of 10 locations in Central Florida." On the Orlando Weekly's blog, editor Bob Whitby smells something funny: He says the Weekly has been a thorn in the MBI's side for some time, and thinks it may be more than a coincidence that the Bureau included four pages of Weekly ads in the press release for Ding's bust. "Could this be part of the culture of retribution the MBI is so famous for?," Whitby asks.
The pilot of The Drinky Crow Show, based on Tony Millionaire's Maakies, is set to premiere on The Cartoon Network's Adult Swim May 13. Maakies, which debuted in the New York Press in 1994, is now featured in the Village Voice and other AAN papers. With a theme song by They Might Be Giants and a plot involving a mermaid, a suicidal crow, a shark attack, "head-chopping violence" and "ferocious Napoleonic French alligators," the pilot should make for an interesting 11 minutes.
Last week, the entertainment magazine In Utah This Week ran an ad claiming that it has eroded the alt-weekly's readership by 20 percent in five months. But Weekly owner John Saltas sarcastically points out the ad -- which appeared in the Salt Lake Tribune, In Utah's sister publication -- grossly overestimates the magazine's readership by referencing the wrong numbers. "CUME numbers mostly impress young reps and rookie managers and are a crock when used to purposely mislead as the In Utah folks did in [the] ad," Saltas says.
But Robert Diefenbach tells the Oregonian he would like his record cleared of the racial and sexual harassment charges that accompanied his suspension last year after sharing Gustavo Arellano's popular syndicated column. He still reads '¡Ask a Mexican!' and even received an autographed column from Arellano, who has gained at least a few readers as a result of the brouhaha. "I've had people come up to me and say they're really glad this came up because they discovered him," Diefenbach says.
Jerry Saltz, a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist for criticism, will start at New York in April, the New York Observer reports. Saltz joined the Voice in 1998. "Jerry is one of the city's most well-respected critics," Voice editor Tony Ortega says in a staff memo. "I know he'll continue doing outstanding work for his new editors just as he's done at the Voice for so long."
Unnamed "insiders" tell the Philadelphia Inquirer that Review Publishing LP, the Weekly's parent company, wants to package its three other publications with the alt-weekly in a sale, but VVM only wants the Weekly. Rumors of the paper's sale first appeared last week, and it has been reported that Philadelphia Media Holdings, the parent company of the city's two dailies, is also interested.
The St. Louis alt-weekly complied with the Missouri Attorney General's request for copies of two articles covering the 2003 protests of the World Agricultural Forum and the 27 arrests that ensued, the paper reports. The AG is defending the city in a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of the protesters. The suit claims the city arrested potential demonstrators in order to "harass, intimidate, deter and to otherwise force individuals, including Plaintiffs, into silence." The trial is set to begin in July.
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