Larry Edwards has voiced his objections to the alt-weekly being available at a suburban Phoenix library branch shared by a high school, and now the Chandler Library Board will hear the details today, the Arizona Republic reports. Library manager Brenda Brown said Edwards "questioned the appropriateness of the alternative newspaper's advertisements and articles for teenagers." Brown tells New Times' Stephen Lemons that this is the first complaint against the paper she's heard in the three years she's worked at the library. "New Times is nearly ubiquitous in this part of the world," Lemons writes. "And if the Chandler book-barn bows to what one local gum-smacker has to say, it's gonna make Chandler look like a town full of first-class hayseeds." Also on the Library Board's indecency agenda: a children's book about a racing sperm, a fairy tale DVD narrated by Robin Williams, and George Carlin's audiobook When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? A decision from the Board isn't expected until November.
Mikhaela Reid, whose cartoons appear in Metro Times and the Boston Phoenix, was wed earlier this month to fellow cartoonist Masheka Wood by none other than syndicated alt-weekly cartoonist Ted Rall, Editor & Publisher reports. According to EditorialCartoonists.com, "this is only the second time two cartoonists have been married by a third cartoonist."
Marc Cooper will be the editor of OffTheBus, the Huffington Post's project to cover the 2008 campaigns via citizen journalists, Wired reports.
Christopher Frizzelle is replacing Dan Savage as editor of the Seattle alt-weekly, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports. The 27-year-old Frizzelle has also worked at crosstown rival the Seattle Weekly, where "he was fired for leaking internal tidbits to the Stranger and trying to get a job there," according to the P-I. His time at the Stranger has thus far included stints as books editor, and most recently, as arts editor. "I'll report to Dan, who is now editorial director, and everybody else reports to me," he says. Asked what changes he wants to make, he said none. "The paper's really good right now. I work with 20 of the most talented people I know."
Executive editor Mike Lenehan (pictured) left Chicago Reader, Inc. on Aug. 30, and as a result he has stepped down from his position as Diversity Chair on the AAN Board of Directors. AAN president Stephen Leon appointed Jackson Free Press editor and current at-large board member Donna Ladd to serve the one year remaining in Lenehan's term as Diversity Chair, and appointed East Bay Express publisher Jody Colley to take Ladd's at-large seat for the one year remaining in her term. "I think I speak for everyone on the board in expressing our gratitude for Mike's service over the years," Leon says. "We're going to miss his dry wit, and also his common sense." Lenehan has served on the board since 2002 and was elected as the association's first Diversity Chair in 2004.
The Colorado Springs Independent has joined local TV and radio stations to launch a free classified portal covering Southern Colorado called SoCoAds.com. In addition to the Indy's free classifieds, SoCoAds will draw ads from national portals like Monster.com, CareerBuilder, HotJobs, AutoMart and eBay. "Southern Colorado now has easy, one-stop online shopping for jobs, apartments, cars, pets, roommates ... virtually anything," says Ethan Beute, creative services director media partner KOAA-TV, in a press release.
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