We reported yesterday that "Houston Press' 'Best of Houston' was due to go to press this week, but was forced to close early in advance of Hurricane Rita." Which is kinda true but kinda not true, too. The Press did, in fact, complete production of its "Best Of" issue in the wee hours of Friday morning, several days earlier than usual, in case Rita prevented the paper from reopening the following week. But when the hurricane proved to be less destructive than initially feared, the staff returned to the office on Monday and resumed production. The first run was sent to the printer last night; the remainder will be printed this afternoon; and the 224-page issue will hit the streets with a thud as scheduled tomorrow afternoon.
In a recent interview with John Dicker that appears in the September issue of The Toilet Paper (a monthly "Monster-Truck/Gay-Cowboy tabloid" based in Colorado Springs), Taibbi talks about his new gig with Rolling Stone and his recent departure from the New York Press. Taibbi offers a characteristically heated denunciation of columnist and former New York Press owner Russ Smith; says ex-editors Jeff Koyen and Alexander Zaitchik were scapegoats for the failures of the paper's management; and predicts new editor Harry Siegel ("a Smith protege") will turn the paper "into a dumb neocon rag."
Alt-weeklies walked away with half of the 18 winning entries in the under-150,000 circulation category of the Association of Food Journalists awards announced last week. New Times foodies at Dallas Observer, SF Weekly and Riverfront Times each picked up a first-place prize, while Houston Press' Robb Walsh took home both a first- and second-place. Independent Weekly, Creative Loafing-Atlanta and Willamette Week were the other AAN winners in the AFJ's small-paper category. LA Weekly's Jonathan Gold, who won first-place in this year's AltWeekly Awards Food Writing category (Walsh placed second), also won first-place for Restaurant Criticism in the AFJ contest, in the 150,001-300,000 circulation category.
AAN announced today that it had established a multi-pronged effort to provide immediate relief to employees of its New Orleans-based member paper who have been displaced by Hurricane Katrina. The centerpiece of the effort is a special fund that the association has established in its Alternative Newsweekly Foundation to accept charitable contributions from members who want to provide immediate assistance to Gambit Weekly employees. Several AAN-member companies have already announced significant contributions to the fund.
In this week's issue, new editor-in-chief Harry Siegel and senior editor Jonathan Leaf say that the "part of New York that belongs to those who make it their home, rather than those who are passing through, is slowly dying" and call the city "an anachronism" in a time that "technology allows financiers, diplomats and scholars to do their work just as well from Jersey City, Chicago, or Omaha as from Midtown." With those things in mind, they lay out what will be their paper's guiding principles: openness, expansiveness and the idea that "a newspaper must serve an ideal of justice."
That's what new editor Harry Siegel (pictured) tells The New York Sun. Siegel, founder of the cultural and political blog New Partisan, says that under his direction the Press will appeal to readers who "are interested in argument and reason" by giving them "a more credible, serious, and ideologically open alternative to the [Village] Voice." The first issue under his editorship will hit the streets on August 24.
A team of reporters from the Mississippi alt-weekly and a documentarian from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation accompanied Thomas Moore during his recently concluded trip to Jackson, Miss. Moore's brother, Charles, and his friend, Henry Dee, were killed there by the Ku Klux Klan in 1964. During his visit, Moore convinced U.S. Attorney Dunn Lampton, who served under Moore in the Army, to commit to forming a task force to re-investigate the case. Read the Free Press story here.
Matt Taibbi plugged his new-ish book, "Spanking the Donkey," and spoke to Jon Stewart about covering the presidential race in a gorilla suit, working for the Bush campaign and the ways in which the press corps is like a bunch of high-school kids. Click here to go to Comedy Central's online video library and scroll down to find Taibbi's interview.
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