In a 4,000-word article that dominates the second issue of The Beast, co-editor Matt Taibbi says Jamie Moses wasn't happy about "Artvoice Death Toll at 7," an article in the Beast's inaugural issue which lampooned the AAN paper "for spending money on a color cover instead of on starving children abroad," or another that ridiculed Moses' physical features. Taibbi spent the past five years as an editor of eXile, an English-language biweekly newspaper published in Moscow "that among journalists acquired a reputation ... for being quite possibly the world's most outrageous and mean-spirited newspaper."
The gag order that was lifted last Wednesday prohibited the paper from publishing documentation of high school grade-tampering provided by former teachers of Crossroads Charter High School. In CL's June 19 issue, staff writer Tara Servatius reported that the teachers complained that school administrators changed grades so students could graduate. Creative Loafing Editor John Grooms hails the decision: "We're glad we were able to strike a small blow for freedom," he says.
It’s not just in thermometers. Toxic mercury is in fish, cars, tooth fillings. The hazardous metal can have devastating neurological, kidney, fetus-developmental effects. Still, some federal agencies and private corporations are doing little to get rid of mercury in the web of life. “Enacting a nationwide ban on sales is an essential safety net to protect Americans,” Felice Stadler of the National Wildlife Federation tells Hartford Advocate columnist Jim Motavalli. Motavalli takes an in-depth look at what some legislators and environmentalists are doing to reduce the amount of mercury in the environment.
Nashville Scene Editor Bruce Dobie has discontinued "Desperately Seeking the News," a hallmark of the Nashville Scene since its inception, the Nashville City Paper reports. Dobie reportedly says the column, which has traditionally served as a launching pad for strikes on The Tennessean, has gotten stale. Matt Pulle and Henry Walker, the two writers who have alternated weekly columns in the past year or so, say they're disappointed but defer to Dobie's judgment.
Pitch Weekly’s T.R. Witcher goes behind the bars of death row to examine the case of Joe Amrine, who’s awaiting execution for a crime he says he didn’t commit. Amrine admits he raped and stabbed other inmates. "That was just the way it was," Amrine tells Witcher. "Either you did that or you were done to." But Amrine says he didn’t stab his friend Gary Barber to death in 1985 with a shank made from the metal handle of a paint roller. “Despite jurors' admitting they made the wrong decision, despite three witnesses who now say they all lied … Amrine remains on death row,” Witcher reports. “Now the buck stops at [Missouri] Governor Bob Holden's desk -- or on Amrine's gurney.” Amrine is realistic about his chances. “For him to give me a pardon, that would be kind of like career suicide.”
For a quarter million New Yorkers like Terry, heroin is a life-shattering addiction. When Terry’s former girlfriend, Juliet, returned to the city, she found him in desperate straits, strung out and panhandling for his next fix. Before she leaves again, Juliet must help him renew his lease on life. “If I leave him now, he’ll get in really deep,” she says. Michael Kamber of The Village Voice spends four days with the couple as he chronicles their struggle to help Terry kick his toxic habit.
Dan Pulcrano, publisher of Metro Silicon Valley, says he's never "seen someone so blatantly try and enter a market by expropriating a trademark and associating it with a knockoff product as we have seen with the current 'SurfMetro/The Wave' folks." Federal Judge Claudia Wilken has issued a preliminary injunction against SurfMet Inc. barring them from using the Metro name on their publication and Web site. Wilken told SurfMet that she may allow them to use the mark "if you want to use it to sell toothbrushes in Des Moines—maybe."
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