Cincinnati CityBeat has purchased a six-story downtown building and is now looking for "like-minded" tenants to share the space, the Cincinnati Business Courier reports. CityBeat will pay $790,000 for the building where Hank Williams once recorded. "We just thought it would be better to buy. It was a good deal. It's a really good building, and we wanted to stay downtown," Co-Publisher and Editor John Fox tells the business paper.
Utne Reader has nominated eight AAN members in its 13th Annual Alternative Press Awards. Nashville Scene is nominated for Political Reporting. Colorado Springs Independent, LA Weekly, The Local Planet Weekly, Metro Times (Detroit), NOW (Toronto) and The Texas Observer were all nominated for Best Local Coverage. The Village Voice was nominated for Arts and Literature.
Renee Downing, the next to the last of Ed Abbey’s five ex-wives, reviews the new biography of Abbey, author of Desert Solitaire and other novels. “Women who slept with Ed Abbey constitute a sizable, although aging, female sub-population in the Southwestern United States, and [James] Cahalan, a tireless researcher, seems to have talked with most of them,” Downing writes. Cahalan didn’t talk to her, though, for his Edward Abbey: A Life. This is her first word on the subject, published in Tucson Weekly.
CityLife, a non-AAN weekly in Las Vegas, said nasty things about the MGM Mirage big boys in a story. The giant casino responded by pulling its ads at a particularly bad time for the company, the Las Vegas Sun reports. "They're not worthy of us," an MGM spokesman tells the Sun.
Jon Gaskell has resigned as editor of Cityview, the Des Moines Register reports. Register columnist Marc Hansen says Gaskell had been in the job 18 months, about the same "spin cycle" as several former editors of the paper owned and published by Connie Wimer. "An anti-establishment paper owned and operated by one of the flowers of the Des Moines establishment. Explain that one," Hansen writes.
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