Don Farley, group publisher of the Times-Shamrock Alternative Newsweekly Group and publisher of Baltimore City Paper, has accepted a promotion as the new Regional General Manager of Times-Shamrock's daily operations.
Baltimore City Paper reporter Van Smith's article on a local record store owner who pleaded guilty to "possession with intent to distribute cocaine, hydrocodone, and oxycodone," included a disclosure that the author had previously purchased marijuana from the store.
Baltimore City Paper art director Joe MacLeod has been named to The Awl's "20 People To Follow On Twitter" list.
As a follow-up to his Top 10 Alternative Newsweekly Covers of 2010 post earlier this week, SPD's Robert Newman is featuring another two sets of what he calls "relentlessly creative, original, and provocative cover designs."
Miami restaurant owner Ioannis Kafouros was misidentified as a federal fugitive in a 2008 article.
Baltimore City Paper reveals the Best of Baltimore with assistance from a new mascot.
Sullivan, currently the managing editor of Baltimore City Paper, will take over as Orlando Weekly's editor June 1. Sullivan has been at City Paper since 2002, and currently sits on AAN's Board of Directors as chair of the Membership Committee. City Paper and the Weekly are both owned by Times-Shamrock Communications.
Tom Scocca, Tony Millionaire, Dina Kelberman, Benn Ray and Emily Flake have written a letter to City Paper asking the paper to bring back Larnell Custis Butler's "Just Ask Larnell" strip, the most recent winner of the alt-weekly's comics contest. The writers, all of them judges in the contest, allege that the paper "broke the terms of the contest" by dropping the strip before its promised year run was up. But editor Lee Gardner begs to differ. "Contest winner or not, Ms. Butler's comic became part of City Paper's weekly editorial content, and each aspect of that content runs or not at my discretion," he responds. "She will receive full payment for a year's run. I have a good deal of regard and respect for Ms. Butler, but I stand by my decision."
The 1999 City Paper cover by the then-relatively-unknown Shepard Fairey had made Mediate's list of the "Top 20 Christmas Magazine Covers of All Time."
"It is nice to have all the restaurants and attractions and souvenir shops down by the harbor," the intro to the paper's city guide reads. "But Baltimore is so much more, and knowing that -- and wanting to share that information with future visitors -- inspired the staff of City Paper, Baltimore's Free Alternative Weekly, to create this guide to our city." The "Baltimanual" is both a print product and a microsite that will be constantly updated with new content.