Taylor Mead, an writer, artist and actor with more than 100 movie credits, lives in a two-room, tub in kitchen apartment piled with stuff and crawling with roaches. The 77-year-old artist's eviction date has come and gone, and the "hardcore boho" is a little worried, C. Carr writes in The Village Voice. "This is not just someone with a total disregard for ordinary comfort, but someone with a complete inability to make a life outside of impulse and the aesthetic that springs from impulse," Carr writes.
Saddam Hussein may no longer be enemy No. 1. With pressure building around the world and at the United Nations against an invasion, George Bush seems to be examining alternatives, however reluctantly. LA Weekly's Celeste Fremon hangs out with L.A.’s Iraqi community; Bruce Shapiro examines the reasons why the war in Iraq may never happen; David Corn sheds light on the new CIA report that details greater dangers than Saddam; and Christopher Layne gives the conservative case against the war.
The Ohio weekly has changed its name to simply Alive and is now "the music, art and culture paper of Columbus," Publisher Sally Crane writes in an Oct. 17 editorial. Saying the paper was "stuck in a rut," Crane says Alive will quench those who "were thirsting for more of what they find relevant to their lives" -- and that's more on the arts, music and culture scenes "with tips and top picks in each category." Crane says it's hard for her, a former investigative reporter, to admit, but the paper was taking itself "a little too seriously."
Noise, Gannett's new "alternative" in Lansing, Mich., and the Chicago Tribune's RedEye both debuted last week, Mark Fitzgerald reports in Editor & Publisher. The Chicago Sun-Times answer to RedEye is due to launch on Wednesday, he reports.
The world's most widely recognized alternative weekly has asked The Cape Cod Voice to ''cease and desist" from using the name ''Voice'' in its print or online edition, Mark Jurkowitz reports in The Boston Globe. The Village Voice says it ''has worked hard and succeeded in gaining recognition both nationally and internationally. We will not allow anyone to have a free ride on our name or denigrate the good will associated with it." The editor and publisher of the 10,000 circulation biweekly based in Orleans, Mass., says he won't give up without a fight. "I don't think any publication has the right to tell people they don't have the right to be the voice of their community,'' he says. This isn't the first time The Village Voice has fought this battle.
"I am thinking about the East Coast man who kills from afar. I am thinking he's an outcast who fantasizes about being a Marine sniper. I am thinking he is a man in love with the taste of power over human life, a power that can taste divine." Robert Nelson follows the twists a human mind can take.
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