The city mag publisher "didn't do everything perfectly, but there was a ton of stuff it did that was genius," Jeff Lawrence tells Business Week. Metrocorp, which also owns Boston magazine, bought a majority interest in the Dig in 2004, and Lawrence bought the paper back earlier this year. After watching how the bigger company spun out new revenue streams from its numerous brands, Lawrence is now thinking about how to introduce new ventures like phone-based Web content, a quarterly arts publication, Boston travel and entertainment guides for the Gen Y set, and alternative newspapers in other New England towns, all under the Weekly Dig brand. "I had access to their executive meetings and knowledge and history," Lawrence says. "Entrepreneurs don't often get that kind of opportunity."
The annual convention will be held in Philadelphia on June 5-7, with the Philadelphia City Paper hosting the event. In an unusual arrangement, the association will host back-to-back conferences this winter in San Francisco, with a Web Publishing Conference on Jan. 30-Feb. 1, and AAN West on Feb. 1-2. And in addition to the Alternative Journalism Writing and Design Workshop to be held in Evanston, Ill. on Aug. 15-16, AAN will organize a Publishers Conference for the first time in 2008, date and location still TBD.
"MusicfestNW is that special time of year when Portland adopts the best of music everywhere and gives it a home," music editor Amy McCullough writes in an introduction to the paper's guide to the annual festival. The four days of MusicfestNW will feature over 170 sets in 16 venues, ranging "from melodic indie rock icons Spoon and Rilo Kiley to alternative hip-hop heroes Aesop Rock and the Clipse to psychedelic music legend Roky Erickson & the Explosives," Corey duBrowa writes in the Oregonian.
Todd Spivak's "Run Over by Metro" took first place in Clarion Awards' Newspaper Feature Story category, the same category in which he finished first last year. Both men and women are eligible for the Clarion Awards, which are presented by The Association for Women in Communications.
After Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in 2005, Michael Tisserand began writing what would become the "Submerged" series, 11 stories about the aftermath written for AAN and run in many member papers. One of the pieces was about the school that the Tisserands and other refugee parents started in New Iberia, La., which the former editor of Gambit Weekly expanded into the recently published book Sugarcane Academy. He tells Tucson Weekly he felt that experience best illustrated what it meant to be a Katrina evacuee. "It was a story with a beginning, a middle and an end, and I think the title of the school -- that the kids and teacher came up with together -- encapsulated how we felt," Tisserand, who has since relocated to Evanston, Ill., says. "(The school) was a place we could feel not just safe, but a place where we again felt the power to make decisions, to move forward."
Gerald Peary's For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism was screened this weekend at the Telluride Film Festival in Colorado, the Boston Globe reports. The documentary is produced by Geary's wife, Amy Geller, and features interviews with a variety of American film critics, including the Village Voice's J. Hoberman. "The movie's not done yet, but they liked it so much they invited us to show it as a work in progress," Peary tells the Globe.
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