In the first of a series, Baltimore City Paper's Molly Rath goes into the juvenile justice system -- deep in -- and finds a lost and angry generation of the young and the poor. "They are loud, because they want to be heard. They are angry, because nobody listens to them. This generation is in pain," Judge David Young tells Rath. Nevertheless, amid the pervasive despair, Rath finds glimmers of hope.
Chicago Magazine reports that 75 Chicago Reader staffers and freelancers have signed a letter in support of Patrick Arden, the newspaper's managing editor who was fired Jan. 15. However, the letter does not ask for Arden's reinstatement, the magazine reports. Jane Levine, publisher of the Reader, tells Chicago Magazine the firing was partly the result of tensions between Arden and Reader Editor Alison True, "but that's not all that it was."
Last year the Arizona Supreme Court opened the door to a new round of sex-abuse claims based on "repressed memories." But in a just-concluded test case, a Phoenix jury wasn't buying the claims of a woman who "remembered" an attack that allegedly took place in the 1970s--not even a little bit. In "Expert Tease," Phoenix New Times staff writer Paul Rubin takes an in-depth look at the case.
A Hollywood producer has asked about the rights to Philadelphia City Paper's serialized novel "Transit of Venus" by Anonymous D, says Philadelphia Daily News columnist Stu Bykofsky. "Among the cast of characters so far is a self-cent ered, prima-donna female anchor, defiant photographers, an ineffectual news director, a lesbian PR person, naive production assistants, horndog salespeople, a bearded, lecherous general manager and a police commissioner with a brogue," Bykofsky writes. Could Hollywood resist a cast of characters like that??t
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