At least that's what St. Louis Post-Dispatch writer Bill McClellan says in yesterday's column. He writes that Ray Hartmann, who founded the St. Louis alt-weekly in 1977, has transformed from "a successful man in a hip business" and a "bachelor of some notoriety" to a "thoroughly domesticated" man holding an incontinent cat at an airport security checkpoint. (He sounds happy, though.)

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In April 2005, AAN News reported the closing of MetroBeat in Greenville, S.C. At the time, Editor James Shannon pledged to continue the publication as an online magazine, and he's made good on that pledge. Now he's about to give Greenville an old-fashioned, ink-on-paper alt-weekly once again. From Shannon's announcement at www.metrobeat.net: "Since the demise of MetroBeat ... we have continued the conversation with our readers through this website. That will not change, but now there will be The Beat, an actual newspaper you can hold in your hands." It's due to hit streets July 19.

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