Kathryn Drury had about 40 Christmas gifts to ship. Procrastinating until the bitter end, she was forced to wrap all the presents in a rush one evening. When she ran out of traditional holiday paper, she improvised with a stack of old newspapers. It wasn't until the next day, after the gifts were mailed, that it dawned on Drury that her ersatz wrapping paper was the Village Voice, home to "pages and pages of personal ads, including gay porn, leather, punishment, phone sex and escort services," Drury tells The Burlington Free Press. "I had just sent boxes of presents to my husband's very Catholic family adorned with naked ladies in string bikinis and muscular, well-oiled men in jock straps."
Gambit Weekly's annual "Best of New Orleans" issue was printed but never distributed, thanks to Hurricane Katrina. Gambit printed an abbreviated list of winners in October, but the paper received many requests for the full issue. The Gambit staff decided to sell the issue for $10 per copy, with proceeds benefiting The Foundation for Entertainment Development and Education, Inc., a nonprofit organization that funds projects and programs that acknowledge the importance of the performing arts to the New Orleans area. In a press release, publisher Margo DuBos said, "We hope that interested AAN members will run an ad promoting the sales of the issue on a space-available basis." The ad can be viewed here; for a different size or file format, contact Rebecca Thiel at rebeccat@gambitweekly.com.
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