Jack Lessenberry, who has been with the Motor City alt-weekly for over 25 years, tells the Student Operated Press that he enjoys teaching journalism, but that his students at Wayne State University don't know much about history. The profile traces the highlights of Lessenberry's long career, including his Emmy for a 1995 Frontline documentary on Jack Kevorkian. "I want to create intelligent dialogue about the problems we face today," he says. "I think we need to think about and talk about who we are as a country and who we are as people."

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At the Stranger's annual Valentine's Day Bash, the alt-weekly's editor and nationally-syndicated sex columnist destroyed sentimental artifacts from relationships gone awry, employing some unusual tools, including fire and urine. A video from the event was posted on the The Stranger's blog, where Savage recounts his favorite moments of destruction: "Melting down a wedding ring and chucking the little blob of melted gold into the street -- right up there with taking a hammer to a diamond engagement ring."

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Michael Brodeur, recently named as Joe Keohane's replacement as editor of the Boston alt-weekly, talks with IN Newsweekly, a New England GLBT newspaper, about being gay, but steers the conversation -- about himself and about the Dig -- beyond identity politics. "It's not that I go up to people and say, hi, I'm gay," says Brodeur. "It doesn't really matter. I just want someone to be interested in what we're writing."

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