Howard Altman, executive editor of Philadelphia City Paper, describes for AJR how a Saint Jack's Bar ad featuring the Thai King in hip-hop regalia nearly severed relations between the United States and Thailand. "It certainly was not the first advertising complaint City Paper had ever received, considering that we once printed an ad for a bar depicting the Virgin Mary with udders," Altman writes. "But this complaint was different. It was from an unhappy representative of a foreign government."
The Portland Mercury just turned two, and its editor may sometimes act like a terrible two, Joseph Gallivan writes in the Portland Tribune. William Steven Humphrey's antics range from flinging gunpowder "snaps" around the room to performing obscene acts with the doorknobs at rival Willamette Week, Gallivan writes. "He's mature, and he's a little boy and he's a disgusting pervert all at once," Dan Savage tells Gallivan. "I admire how a fortysomething can use the word 'pee-pee' as much as he does," Mark Zusman, editor of Willamette Week, says.
A new wave of refugees in Baltimore could revitalize its struggling neighborhoods, Nicole Leistikow writes in Baltimore City Paper. Leistikow, who has volunteered for the International Rescue Committee, says an afternoon on a Baltimore street corner can show a "woman in flowing robes carrying groceries on her head; friends stopping on the sidewalk to chat in African-accented French; too-cool European teenagers trying to win an argument with their parents in Serbo-Croatian." Scenes like this are becoming familiar not only in major American cities. Even smaller towns are trying to attract immigrant energy.
Steve Perry, a former editor of City Pages (Twin Cities), will return to his old job, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports. Perry has been writing for The Rake, a new monthly started by Tom Bartel, brother of City Pages Publisher Mark Bartel. Perry replaces Tom Finkel, who was fired in July. Perry is the second former editor restored at a Village Voice Media paper this week, following Skip Berger's return to Seattle Weekly.
"Immediately after Sept. 11 the United States media went into lapdog mode," A.C. Thompson writes in the San Francisco Bay Guardian. Announcing this year's top 10 most censored stories from Project Censored, the Guardian praises those reporters and publications that never stopped asking the hard questions or writing the disturbing stories.
San Diego CityBEAT published its inaugural issue last Wednesday, and the daily responds, "Bring it on." David L. Coddon writing in The San Diego Union-Tribune's weekly arts and entertainment guide, "Night & Day," says the new alt-weekly is trying to get a jump on both the daily and its 30-year-old alternative newsweekly rival, San Diego Reader, by publishing a day earlier. "Another 'voice' in local print media isn't bad," Coddon says.
Danny Bakewell's libel suit against New Times Los Angeles' columnists Rick Barrs (also the paper's editor) and Jill Stewart backfired. Stewart calls Bakewell "a multimillionaire developer and obnoxious black nationalist," as well as a "poverty pimp" for using money collected by the Brotherhood Crusade, ostensibly a charity, for his personal enrichment. The judge saw nothing wrong with using this term to describe Bakewell and ordered him to pay $25,000 to the alternative newsweekly.
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