Renee Downing, the next to the last of Ed Abbey’s five ex-wives, reviews the new biography of Abbey, author of Desert Solitaire and other novels. “Women who slept with Ed Abbey constitute a sizable, although aging, female sub-population in the Southwestern United States, and [James] Cahalan, a tireless researcher, seems to have talked with most of them,” Downing writes. Cahalan didn’t talk to her, though, for his Edward Abbey: A Life. This is her first word on the subject, published in Tucson Weekly.
This week’s edition of Westchester County Weekly will be its last as a separate publication. Beginning next week, it will be folded into its sister publication, Fairfield County Weekly. About 30,000 readers in Westchester County, N.Y., will get their own cover with the old nameplate, but the content of the two alternative newsweeklies will be identical. Fran Zankowski, CEO and group publisher of Advocate*Weekly Newspapers, tells the staff in a memo that they made a “valiant attempt” to save the paper, but it was just not profitable enough to stand alone.
Independent Weekly names David Madison editor. Madison is a native of Chapel Hill, N.C., and a veteran alt-weekly writer and editor. Publisher Sioux Watson says the only person happier about the hire than the Indy staff is Madison’s mama, who is glad her boy is coming home.
Eric Celeste muses in the Dallas Observer on the departure of Lee Newquist from New Times and the future of Fort Worth Weekly in the post-John Forsyth era.
In an unsigned column, Fort Worth Weekly bids farewell to its "fiercely independent and damn-the-torpedoes" editor John Forsyth, who was fired this week by new owner Lee Newquist. "We can only hope that Lee Newquist will make good on his promise to support the same kind of gutsy journalism that Forsyth did," says the author(s).
Tucson Weekly goes on the prowl with the Shadow Wolves, the last Native American unit of the U.S. Customs Border Patrol. The 19-man unit is responsible for a third of all the dope seized by the 400 Customs agents in Arizona.
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