As veteran attendees know, the trade show exhibit hall at the AAN Convention is the best place in the world to grab an armful of alt-weeklies. If you want your papers included in this magnificent spread of profane tabloids, you'll need to ship them to arrive by Wednesday, June 13, to the following address: AAN Convention Newspaper Display, Pacific Exposition Decorating Company, 2737 NW Nela Street, Portland, OR 97210. (If your shipper needs a phone number, it's 503-417-8000.) You can send as many papers as you like, but 25 to 50 are generally sufficient. And, yes, remaining papers will be recycled.
In the new vampire film Rise: Blood Hunter, Liu is Sadie Blake, a LA Weekly reporter "whose research into a goth cult gets a little too in-depth," according to the Toronto Star's review. The storyline should sound familiar to most alt-weekly reporters, who have undoubtedly found themselves in this situation at least once: "She awakes in a morgue to discover herself a newly minted member of the vampiric undead, expected to survive by drinking human blood." Of course, she wants none of it, and "armed with a baroque crossbow that kills vampires deader than undead, she sets out to settle a few scores." The film opens today in some cities.
Total Call International's La Mejor Mexico long-distance phone card features a character whose face is clearly taken from the syndicated column's logo, created by artist Mark Dancey. "No one had asked me or Village Voice Media (the cabrones who own the copyright to the ¡Ask a Mexican! column and logo, as well as my second-born son) for permission to use the image," writes ¡Ask a Mexican! author Gustavo Arellano. A Total Call representative tells Arellano that a designer found the logo while looking for stock art through a Google search, and that the company will recall the 10,000 phone cards that haven't yet been sold.
Oregon's senior senator, known for his interest in health care, technology and natural-resources issues, will address convention delegates the morning of Saturday, June 16. Before his election to the Senate in 1996, Wyden served 15 years in the U.S. House of Representatives. In a vote earlier this month, Wyden cosponsored the Feingold-Reid amendment calling for the mandated redeployment of U.S. troops from Iraq. In 2002, the Democrat was one of only 23 senators who voted against the authorization of military force in Iraq.
"Pulitzer recipients almost always are employees of established daily publications," notes the San Diego Union-Tribune. The paper also points out that Gold's Pulitzer was the first awarded to a food critic. "I always thought you had to have a grown-up job doing something like reviewing operas at The New York Times to get a Pulitzer, not writing about taco stands for the (LA) Weekly," Gold says.
Data released in late 2006 from the U.S. Census Bureau shows that the majority of U.S. households are now headed by unmarried adults. In a report examining their attitudes, behaviors and lifestyles, the market research publisher Packaged Facts finds that singles are both more diverse and younger than the general population. The report also details the spending preferences of various unmarried demographic groups. For example, younger unmarried adults skew towards technology purchases; single boomers opt for luxury items; and single parents "enjoy shopping and sharing their children's entertainment."
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