Their career began when they were nine-month-old babies on ABC's sitcom "Full House." Now the debatable charm of the All-American teenage twins is branded across every conceivable media platform. "Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, indistinguishable from their plastic toy counterparts, enjoy riding horses, shopping, and talking about boys when they're not managing their commercial empire," Sara Bir writes in the North Bay Bohemian.
Strip down, dress up or just shave it all off. Sarah Phelan of Metro Santa Cruz talks to three Burning Man Festival veterans about how to avoid getting your butt sunburned and keep your hair nice in that desert dust. After waiting all year for the 12-day extravaganza, "finally, it's time to don the neon green wig, jump into the art car, alien chickens in tow, and hurtle down the road to the Black Rock Desert in northern Nevada," Phelan reports.
"I hope it gets people to think about the nature of television and the business that it does." So says Tony Ortega, a New Times LA writer who admits that "maybe" he penned a "news story" reporting that NBC is about to cut a deal for "Survive This!" -- a "'Survivor' meets Hannibal Lechter"-style reality series starring the two California teenagers whose recent abduction and rape made the national news. An NBC spokeswoman says there is "no truth" to the story. Another New Times paper, the Dallas Observer, was sued earlier this year by two local officials targeted in a similar spoof.
Independent Weekly's acquisition of Raleigh's alt-weekly the Spectator will allow the newly merged Independent to beef up its A&E coverage and leaves Creative Loafing with more cash for its four AAN-member papers. "One of us ultimately had to give in to create a single financially successful paper, and we yielded to local ownership," said Ben Eason, CEO of Creative Loafing Inc.
For years, the residents of an inner-city boarding house in the slums of West Palm Beach have sold drugs, beat on each other and generally struggled to get by. But then the city announced plans to demolish their home to make way for multi-million dollar apartments. New Times Broward/Palm Beach staff writer Eric Alan Barton reports how this threat brought the residents together in their own strange, strange way.
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