Marnye Oppenheim, who wrote the "Bite Me" restaurant column for New Times Los Angeles for two years and continued it at Phoenix New Times, has died, the LA Times reports. She was 32.
New Times writers swept the Newspaper Restaurant Review or Critique category of the 2003 James Beard Foundation Journalism Awards with Jason Sheehan of Westword winning, while Jill Posey-Smith of Riverfront Times and Robb Walsh of Houston Press were finalists. Mark Stuertz of the Dallas Observer was the winner in the Newspaper, Magazine or Internet Reporting on Consumer Issues, Nutrition and/or Health category for his article “Green Giant." Dara Moskowitz, City Pages (Twin Cities) and Walsh were finalists in the newspaper series category.
The IRE has awarded a certificate to Tom Robbins of The Village Voice for "Lush Life of Rudy Appointee," which proved the virtual, nonstop spending spree of tax dollars by an aide of former New York Mayor Giuliani on items for himself and his friends. The Voice's request for documents and subsequent reporting led to a 17-count indictment this week against Russell Harding, former president of the New York Housing Development Corporation.
A Village Voice records request and a series of articles last year have led to the indictment of Russell Harding, former president of the New York Housing Development Corporation. "Saying that the Voice's records request had spurred their inquiry, federal and city law enforcement officials described a laundry list of unchecked and high-powered abuses," the Voice's Tom Robbins writes.
Washington Post music critic David Segal rifs on Voice critic Robert Christgau's review of the music that tops the latest Voice critics' poll of pop music, lacerating "the dean of rock criticism's" style. "Well, party people, if this man is the dean we’re going to have to burn down the college," Segal says at the beginning of a live chat session.
Still on the alternative weekly beat, Tim Rutten of the Los Angeles Times critiques former mayor Richard Riordan's new weekly prototype and finds the LA Examiner aimed at the people who elected him -- affluent, educated and mostly white. Rutten, who reported on the antitrust investigation of Village Voice Media and New Times, takes a last slap at the two chains for "a sad and venal chapter in an otherwise vigorous -- often courageous -- history" of the alternative press in Los Angeles.
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