"Week after week, a remarkably diverse group of individuals -- including straights in suits, freaks, tattooed, shaved, and pierced punk rockers, misfits, overachievers, iconoclasts, near hermits, jocks, geeks, and quite a few more surprisingly normal folks than you’d expect (and that just describes some of the receptionists) -- have cooperated to create what has been, by turns, a scurrilous left-wing rag, an alternative newspaper, a comprehensive entertainment guide, and an award-winning news, arts, and culture magazine," writes Dave Watson in this week's issue of Vancouver's alt-weekly. From its debut in 1967, through charges of vagrancy and obscenity and a brief spell as a music publication, to its "respectable" present incarnation, the Straight's story reveals a dynamic relationship with "the social, political, and cultural history" of the Terminal City.
The Village Voice Web site is one of five finalists in the "Newspaper" category of the 2006 Webby Awards, it was announced April 11. Winners will be named on May 9. Orlando Weekly and Baltimore City Paper have also been honored for their online work: Their Web sites are two of the three finalists in the "Best Weekly Newspaper-Affiliated Web Service" category of the EPpy Awards, which are presented by Editor & Publisher and Mediaweek. (The third finalist is a Pennsylvania community newspaper, The Almanac.) EPpy Award winners will be announced May 19.
The New York Observer reports that Village Voice Music Editor Chuck Eddy was fired yesterday; he is the 17th employee to leave the paper since the merger with New Times. In a phone interview with the Observer, Village Voice Media Executive Editor Michael Lacey confirms that commentary will no longer appear on the Voice's pages. "I want our reporters to start reporting," Lacey says, adding that employees who aren't comfortable with the new dynamic should find employment elsewhere. "You want to sit in your room and ruminate? Not on my nickel," Lacey says. The Observer also notes that veteran Voice reporter James Ridgeway, who was fired on March 31, has retained an attorney to consider his legal options.
Jerry Saltz was one of the three nominated finalists in the Criticism category for his "fresh, down-to-earth pieces on the visual arts and other cultural topics," the Pulitzer Board announced today. Robin Givhan, fashion editor of the Washington Post, won the category.
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