Facing growing losses, electronic ad-submission service provider AdStar Inc. announced Tuesday it risks possible delisting from Nasdaq after its shareholder equity fell below the minimum listing requirement of $2.5 million. AdStar's shareholder equity stood at $2.08 million as of June 30.
Dan Savage (in photo) and Tim Keck haven't fully participated in the electoral process lately, and their cross-town rivals are calling them on it. Seattle Weekly's Mark Fefer culled county voting records and determined that Editor Savage missed several recent elections and Publisher Keck isn't registered to vote. Fefer contrasts their actions with The Stranger's brash encouragement to its readers to join the political process.
On September 5, the FDA approved Barr Laboratories' Seasonale, a form of birth control that will allow women to have just four periods a year. The first reaction of many women upon hearing this news is that it sounds too much like messing with Mother Nature. But women who take the pill are already interfering with their bodies' natural rhythm -- just without the benefit of not bleeding. Giving birth is the primary biological goal of the female body and without modern contraceptives women would be having a lot more babies and a lot less bleeding. Audrey Van Buskirk talks to researchers and women in their childbearing years and encounters some pretty intense weirdness when it comes to discussing Aunt Flo.
Newspapers in the Phoenix-based alt-weekly chain picked up seven of the 11 awards handed out last month in the under 150,000 circulation category of the National Association of Black Journalists' annual contest. Dallas Observer's Jim Schutze and Julie Lyons, Cleveland Scene's Thomas Francis and Riverfront Times' Jeannette Batz all were named first-place winners.
Ad Age print edition is now searchable to 1992 via PayPoints Access System.
At first listen, the plan seems borderline delusional. After all, asking buyers and planners to forsake must-buys like The New York Times and Newsday in favor of shopping circulars is the kind of request that gets salespeople escorted out of the building by security guards. But two of Tri- State's marketing minions, advertising director Stacie Boering and media consultant Don Andrews, argue their case persuasively.
The company has unearthed the story of M. W. Heron, a bartender in New Orleans who created Southern Comfort in 1874. Brown-Forman is betting that Heron will help consumers develop a greater connection with the brand. The goal is to parlay consumer interest into an increase in sales and a national campaign for Southern Comfort, which Brown-Forman has brought to television for the first time.
For 13 years the worst arson-murder in Dallas history went unsolved. Two years ago, police caught a break and have slowly traced the roots of the intentional act of savagery that killed five children ranging in age from 2 to 18. Dallas Observer Editor Julie Lyons reports that the investigation is turning up a lot of unpleasant memories about the strange culture of violence that once terrorized the south Dallas neighborhood.
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