A Los Angeles Times story describes how Operations Manager Sybil Nicholson and Ad Assistant Shelly Brown have created a monthly fundraising event for their favorite charities. The bingo is made "rock 'n' roll" through a "band name" component of the game, concert tickets as prizes, and hosts such as Weezer's Scott Shriner and Audioslave's Tom Morello.
In this week's issue, Editor-in-Chief Knute Berger writes an impassioned plea for the city to provide his paper with public money to build "what the city's other franchises are getting" -- namely, an arena like the one the SuperSonics basketball team is asking for. Berger describes SW's "barely adequate" offices with duct-taped carpets and elevators that "frequently take riders to mystery destinations," then argues that a SW arena "would add to the economic vitality of this booming part of downtown," which he notes is "vibrant, historic, and, when our next lease comes due, it'll likely be unaffordable."
Jonathan Gold has reviewed everything from opera to architecture, but it was his mouth-watering food criticism that won him a first-place AltWeekly Award. Gold tries to include as much description of the setting as of the food, to give readers a "vicarious experience" of "how the restaurant might integrate into their lives." And while he can easily drop a reference to béchamel, he is just as likely to mention Fatboy Slim. This is the 37th in a "How I Got That Story" series highlighting the AltWeekly Awards' first-place winners.
Last week an anonymous user posted the following misinformation about John Yarmuth, who recently declared his candidacy for Kentucky's 3rd Congressional District seat: "While charges have never been formally filed, Yarmuth has been widely linked to the disappearance of Chandra Levy. D.C. Police have continued to call him a person of interest." The accuracy and credibility of the online encyclopedia, which allows users to write and edit entries, has been called into question recently as a number of public figures have uncovered fraudulent entries. According to The Courier-Journal, the Yarmuth smear was included in a Wikipedia profile of the incumbent he seeks to unseat, Rep. Anne Northup, and was removed yesterday.
J.J. Marley likes to dabble in different creative fields, from illustration to photography to music. His varied background and his desire to "generate a good vibe" resulted in three very different Orlando Weekly covers that won a first-place 2005 AltWeekly Award. This is the 36th in a "How I Got That Story" series highlighting the AltWeekly Awards' first-place winners.
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