New Times Broward-Palm Beach columnist Bob Norman ignited the Internet last week when he revealed what is already common knowledge among "political and media types": That Palm Beach County Republican Congressman Mark Foley (see photo) is gay. The column was immediately posted on at least 20 Web sites, and the story was then picked up by gay newspapers and received a mention in Hotline, a popular inside-the-beltway political fixation. Now even mainstream local papers like the Sun-Sentinel appear to be closing in.

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Noel Black heads to cowboy church, one of the fastest-growing religious phenomena in the world. "God showed me cowboys hung up on bulls with fire beneath them," Glenn Smith, who founded a cowboy ministry after this vision, tells Black. "He said they were dying and going to hell. [He told me the] next morning I was to sell all my worldly possessions and he would provide for me to minister to cowboys. So I did."

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In a column on both mainstream and alternative media's tangles with plagiarism, Westword's Michael Roberts reveals a couple of AAN member papers' own most embarrassing moments. One is a case where Boulder Weekly had to apologize to Salt Lake City Weekly about publishing a barely rewritten story, and a couple of times Westword's writers deviated from the truth.

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Arnold Friedman, the subject of Andrew Jarecki’s award-winning documentary "Capturing the Friedmans," was a pedophile, but did he molest children? Friend of the family Debbie Nathan revisits the case and explores the nature of pedophilia and memory. She takes us inside the family through son David, a/k/a Silly Billy, the city's most famous children's birthday party clown. Silly Billy has been featured in fluffy articles and numbers celebrities like Susan Sarandon among his clients. "But there are things about his family's past that are not fluffy at all," Nathan writes.

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Match.com and People2People/Tele-Publishing International, two of the biggest operators in online and voice personals, are coming together to offer users "a robust pool of potential dates and romantic partners," the two companies announced in a joint news release today. P2P/TPI, owned by Phoenix Media Communications Group, is the largest provider of voice personals. Match.com is a global provider of Internet personals. The two together will now have more than 1,000 media clients and reach millions of singles searching for romance.

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