After battling cancer and pneumonia, pioneering editor Clay Felker, 78, has entered a nursing home. The founder of New York magazine exerted a seminal influence in new journalism and the alternative press. Felker owned and edited The Village Voice from 1974 to 1977, and founded California-based alternative magazine New West. But not everyone saw his influence as benevolent. A capsule history in The Village Voice's 50th anniversary issue claimed that Felker "dulled the Voice's radical edge by crimping the style of some of its more free-spirited writers, giving undue prominence to fluffy lifestyle pieces, and taking articles off the front page." One-time protégé James Brady pays tribute in Forbes magazine.
Lacey Phillabaum (pictured) entered a guilty plea today in connection with a 2001 arson that destroyed the University of Washington Center for Urban Horticulture, according to a press release from the U.S. Department of Justice. Phillabaum, a former staff writer at Source Weekly and C-Ville Weekly, also admitted that she "helped plan or participated in two more 'actions' in 2000 and 2001, aimed at destroying what she and co-conspirators believed to be genetically engineered crops," said the DOJ. News reports suggest these incidents were part of a wave of eco-terrorism for which the Earth Liberation Front claimed responsibility.
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