While San Francisco Bay Guardian's Bruce B. Brugmann was railing against a New Times-Village Voice Media merger that is still merely a rumor, his competitors at the New Times-owned SF Weekly were commissioning a handwriting analysis of the outspoken publisher. The handwriting expert says that B3's penmanship suggests that he's smart, respectful, and generous, and that he's "very much in control of himself and .... confident in how he impresses himself upon his environment." She also says he's a few other things as well.
In this week's issue, new editor-in-chief Harry Siegel and senior editor Jonathan Leaf say that the "part of New York that belongs to those who make it their home, rather than those who are passing through, is slowly dying" and call the city "an anachronism" in a time that "technology allows financiers, diplomats and scholars to do their work just as well from Jersey City, Chicago, or Omaha as from Midtown." With those things in mind, they lay out what will be their paper's guiding principles: openness, expansiveness and the idea that "a newspaper must serve an ideal of justice."
After 18 years at the alt-weekly, Jim Mullin (pictured) will step down from his position. The announcement comes less than a month after former city official Arthur Teele's suicide, which came on the heels of a New Times cover story about Teele's involvement with a transvestite prostitute. Mullin says that while he was "profoundly affected" by the tragedy, he'd been considering leaving the paper for the past year. His successor will be Chuck Strouse, the current editor of New Times Broward-Palm Beach.
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