Sunday's New York Times carried a wedding announcement for Style Weekly Arts Editor Carrie Nieman and her groom, Scott Culpepper; as an online bonus, visitors to the Times' Web site can stream a five-minute "Vows" video and watch the pair recount how they met (at a party) and how he proposed (in Costa Rica). Warning: the romance-averse may need to avert their eyes.
"She was so many rare things," Melissa Scott Sinclair writes on behalf of the Style Weekly staff. Robinson-Jeter (pictured), who passed away in May, was "a cleareyed optimist" and a ceaseless worker who loved her job as classified advertising director. She was a key player in Style Weekly's joining AAN, and she had been invited to speak at the annual convention this month. But Robinson-Jeter's most unusual quality, Sinclair writes, was her ability to "make time" for friends and co-workers.
Margie Robinson-Jeter died May 26, according to an obituary published this weekend in the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Robinson-Jeter, 41, was hospitalized two weeks ago after suffering "cardiac arrest," according to an e-mail sent to AAN by Style Weekly Publisher Jim Wark. Memorial services for Robinson-Jeter were held this afternoon.
Staff Photographers Scott Elmquist and Stephen Salpukas assembled 32 pictures for their "Hidden Richmond" exhibition at a local gallery. Richmond.com critic K.B. Basseches, who gives the work a positive review, notes that the exhibition was extremely successful in selling the two photogs' works.
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.
