With this year's convention in San Diego just over, the Arkansas Times is itching to bring the convention to Little Rock next summer. Why? "Rampant boosterism," says Alan Leveritt, the paper's publisher. "We love Little Rock, and we wanted to introduce our friends at AAN to her."
That's how author Mike Davis (pictured) greeted his First Amendment Lunch audience this weekend in San Diego, beginning a speech that exposed the corruption and "civic mayhem" lurking beneath the tranquil and sun-bleached veneer of "Enron by the Sea." Members can now download a copy of Davis' speech -- which included a paean to the city's alternative press -- from the AAN Library.
Las Vegas Weekly (cover pictured above), Bellingham Weekly of Bellingham, Wash., and Style Weekly of Richmond, Va., were voted in as members of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies at the organization's annual meeting on June 18. The Las Vegas and Richmond papers were the first two daily-owned alt-weeklies ever admitted to AAN.
At a luncheon Friday during the AAN convention in San Diego, Dan Savage handed out four first place awards to L.A. Weekly. Four papers -- Chicago Reader, Folio Weekly, Jackson Free Press and Orlando Weekly -- took first place honors in two categories each. Read the full list of winners.
With his Macintosh PowerBook and a projection screen, AlwaysOn network founder Tony Perkins (pictured) stood before AAN convention goers in San Diego to explain his solution to the biggest threat facing alternative weeklies today: the blog revolution. His assessment? Join 'em or fail. Beating them isn't an option.
With growing competition from large media conglomerates, and with the Internet rapidly reshaping markets and media-consumption habits, alternative newspapers know they must change to remain competitive. But how? What's next in alt-weekly publishing? When AAN's annual convention gets underway on Thursday, June 16, programming will address such questions.
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