"Who owns REI?" the nation's largest recreational outfitter with 66 stores in 24 states, asks Seattle freelancer Andy Ryan, who once owned his own outdoor gear store. "It can't be the members. They aren't even privy to what the co-op's executives earn," Ryan, an REI member, writes in Seattle Weekly, as he takes off on a quest for answers about the Seattle-based co-op's operations.
Bob Kittle, editorial page editor of the San Diego Union-Tribune, claims he had never seen the 10-month-old AAN paper when he learned CityBeat Editor David Rolland would be appearing on a local NPR "Editor's Roundtable" alongside him. Directed to CityBeat’s Web site, Kittle was shocked to find profanity -- so shocked, in fact, that he tried unsuccessfully to get Rolland kicked off the radio program, on which Kittle is a regular pundit. "CityBeat is not journalism. It’s trash," Kittle wrote in a letter to radio station KPBS. In this week’s CityBeat, Rolland responds that Kittle’s real intent was to "limit the range of debate" in San Diego, which he says, "has been too narrow ... for too long."
Sacramento rolls out the red carpet for a "global food security" summit, as protesters from around the country are laying plans of their own. Ron Curran looks at the first-ever international Ministerial Conference and Expo on Agricultural Science and Technology, which is expected to back global trade in irradiated and genetically modified food. It's also the first World Trade Organization-related meeting in North America since 1999’s confrontational Seattle Ministerial Conference, where police used tear gas and rubber bullets on protesters, and ultimately a curfew shut down the city.
Dallas Observer won two first place awards in the 2003 Missouri Lifestyle Journalism Awards, and The Village Voice and Phoenix New Times each took one. East Bay Express won second place in the General Excellence category for papers with circulations 50,001 to 100,000, and New Times papers were finalists in nine other categories.
"It’s the stank of corporate America; everything within those walls designed and engineered for greatest selling power. Even me." The Local Planet Weekly's new staff writer, Melissa Amos, bids a more-bitter-than-sweet farewell to the department store jobs that sustained her through college. After five years, she knows that even the fine crystal has a smell all its own.
Yoga, once defined by asceticism, has become big, cushy business in America. Can it survive what some fear is the selling of its soul? Metro Silicon Valley's Russell Wild estimates yoga in America is a $27 billion a year industry, somewhere between the size of Dow Chemical and Microsoft. "What's next for the yoga biz, now that we've already seen the marketing of yogatards, yoga shoes, yogi pillows (stuffed with buckwheat hulls), the $1,200 'tantric bedroom set' (for adults only) and a battery-operated, inflatable 'Chi machine'?"
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