"The heyday of the alternative weekly sports section" came to an end two weeks ago, according to Wired News, when The Village Voice discontinued its weekly sports section. "Since its inception, The Village Voice ... presented some of the most innovative, interesting and imaginative sports writing published," wrote Glenn Stout in his introduction to the 1996 edition of The Best American Sports Writing. "The Voice sports section made a regular practice of covering events and people no one else did in a way that was wholly unique."
The City Council President posed for a photo with a bong in his hand and another Council candidate was the lucky recipient of a lap dance during a candidate forum sponsored last week by "Seattle's cheeky weekly." The Seattle Times also reports that candidates who appeared at the forum "faced serious questions" about local issues, and that Jack Pageler, who stood in for his wife, veteran Councilwoman Margaret, "suffered the indignity of being called 'Margaret' repeatedly by Dan Savage (pictured), editor of The Stranger and master of smackdown ceremonies."
With the deadline for first-round bids closing next week, CEO David Schneiderman tells the New York Post that VVM, with backing from investment firm and VVM part-owners Weiss, Peck & Greer, may be interested in buying the original city magazine. Now owned by Primedia, the magazine was founded in 1968 by Clay Felker, who also owned and edited The Village Voice (second item).
In an interview with mediabistro.com, the Village Voice media reporter talks about her approach to the job and how she handles the legacy left by former “Press Clips” columnists Alex Cockburn and Jim Ledbetter. She also says her "mandate is to compete in the world of media reporters," not "to have a sort of predictable Village Voice ideology." Her biggest regret: “I will probably never be allowed to write for the (New York) Times.”
The Liberal provincial government, in a press release posted on its home page, announced that it would review the newspaper tax exemption policy that had Vancouver's 36- year-old alt-weekly facing the prospect of a fine of over $1 million: "Clearly the Georgia Straight is a newspaper, yet it is not treated as a newspaper under the current policy. Accordingly (we will) review this policy and how it is applied, in order to solve this problem."
A packed house toasted the Seattle arts community last week as four local artists and two arts organizations were named the first recipients of the $5,000 prize, reports the Seattle Post- Intelligencer. All the hugging and kissing between critics and award winners brought a disclaimer of sorts from Stranger Editor Dan Savage. "None of our critics has slept with any of the award winners. Not yet. Maybe it's time they paid up."
It's déjà vu all over again in Vancouver, where the venerable alt-weekly is under attack from B.C. Liberal ministers. In what Publisher & Editor Dan McLeod calls "the biggest threat in its 36-year history," the Straight has been stripped of its status as a newspaper under provincial sales-tax legislation and assessed fines and penalties that will total more than one million dollars by year's end. McLeod, whose paper was "prosecuted frequently under a wide assortment of trumped- up charges" in its early years, calls the new attack "a politically motivated attempt by the government to silence one of its harshest critics."
Zimbabwe-born Charles Mudede has been writing the unique "Police Beat" for five years. According to The Seattle Times, Mudede "visits police stations once a week, checks the log, and, after talking with the officers involved, incorporates whatever he finds most interesting into his column." Director Robinson Devor says his love for Seattle and Mudede's "fantastic" journalism convinced him to make the low-budget independent film: 'Police Beat' particularly caught my eye because it has a poetic tone to crime that other crime logs in other papers do not."
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