Chicago attorney Maury Kravitz may be on the verge of finding Genghis Khan's tomb -- along with the greatest cache of treasure the world has ever seen, reports Chicago Newcity's Josh Schonwald. "Indiana" Kravitz already has TV and movie deals about the hunt for a treasure that would dwarf the discovery of King Tut's tomb. "King Tut? King Tut isn't a postage stamp compared to this. You've got to understand... This is the greatest conqueror in the world. He never lost a battle," Kravitz tells Schonwald.
Four friends believed in dragons, vampires, and threats against their lives. Then they became the alleged killers in one of the most publicized murders in Virginia history. Now, two of them are talking about the slaying of Robert Schwartz, one of the girls' father. Jason Cherkis of Washington City Paper tells their story.
"We will be a hard-hitting, good, clean paper that will carry non-offensive ads," says Rich Kuchinsky, ad director for Utah Weekly, a free paper that debuted last week along the Wasatch Front. "(A)dvertisers are wasting their money" in the rival Salt Lake City Weekly, Kuchinsky claims, because "Moms" and "families" are offended by some of the ads in that AAN-member publication. Kuchinsky tells the Deseret News, "We have no problem with 'men seeking women' and 'women seeking men,' and that's where it will stop."
Almost since her traumatic birth, Sidney Miller of Houston, Texas, has been at the center of a legal battle that has reached the Texas Supreme Court and will very likely not stop there. At her very premature birth, her parents told the hospital not to take any heroic measures to keep her alive, Traci Neal reports in the Hartford Advocate. The hospital refused, and the Millers have been paying for it — emotionally and financially -- ever since. Now they want the hospital to pick up the tab for its actions. The courts' decision could change the way hospitals nationwide treat very premature, low birth-weight and desperately ill infants. Neal, a copy editor at the Advocate, was herself a preemie and took on the story voluntarily, interviewing Connecticut neonatologists and medical ethicists to give the national story a state angle. "Most of my work was done at home (with a 2- and 4-year-old tugging at my shirt) and much of the writing was done between the hours of 10 p.m. and 2 a.m.," Neal tells AAN News.
"Can you trust an alternative newspaper over 30?" Creative Loafing Atlanta's Senior Editor John Sugg asks. Well, yes and no. In a column published in Weekly Planet Tampa, Sugg's old stomping ground, he says alt-weeklies may be greying and corporate but they're still kicking the dailies' butts. Mainstream media have "dumbed themselves down to the point of imbecility," Sugg says. "Maybe now the alternative press will stand and achieve its true greatness, revealing what the powerful don't want revealed." If they don't, Sugg's hoping some firebrand now in high school is waiting in the wings to create the next underground press.
Editor Pete Kotz eviscerates alt-weekly competitor Cleveland Free Times, saying its "relentless strife still makes for the best running sitcom in town" and laying odds Free Times will close. David Schneiderman, CEO of Free Times' parent Village Voice Media, in an e-mail to Kotz, calls the Scene's claims "untrue and outrageous." Free Times Publisher Matt Fabyan tells AAN News the article is "pathetic, desperate and sleazy." Now Free Times Editor David Eden is calling Scene Publisher Ramon Larkin, "badgering him about (Scene's) finances," Kotz reports. Payback may be in the offing.
What's it like to share a community with a top-secret paramilitary compound? Ask the people of Hertford, a small community nestled in eastern North Carolina. Located just outside the city is the fenced-in, heavily secured Harvey Point Defense Testing Activity where explosives are tested regularly. The knowledge of what exactly goes on at the base is limited, but the residents of Hertford are used to that, as Independent Weekly finds out.
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