The "Speak Freely" ad campaign, created by the Ignited Minds agency, took home a Best Integrated Campaign prize at this year's Belding Awards for Advertising Excellence. Winners were announced last week.
Tim Granlund rocks a military theme and goes by the nickname of "Six String General" in his quest to reach September's Air Guitar World Championships in Finland, the Washington Post reports. The 23-year-old Granlund faces his first challenge this Wednesday in the D.C. round of the U.S. Air Guitar Championships (if you're so inclined, you can buy tickets here). He'll have 60 seconds to win over the judges and move on to the next round of competition. He gives the Post insight into his air guitar strategy and says he's working on his signature move, the "hump jump." Granlund also talks shop, describing his air guitar as "a vintage thing ... it's got one of those triangular-looking deals going on. It's pink, totally wild and crazy."
In the new vampire film Rise: Blood Hunter, Liu is Sadie Blake, a LA Weekly reporter "whose research into a goth cult gets a little too in-depth," according to the Toronto Star's review. The storyline should sound familiar to most alt-weekly reporters, who have undoubtedly found themselves in this situation at least once: "She awakes in a morgue to discover herself a newly minted member of the vampiric undead, expected to survive by drinking human blood." Of course, she wants none of it, and "armed with a baroque crossbow that kills vampires deader than undead, she sets out to settle a few scores." The film opens today in some cities.
Total Call International's La Mejor Mexico long-distance phone card features a character whose face is clearly taken from the syndicated column's logo, created by artist Mark Dancey. "No one had asked me or Village Voice Media (the cabrones who own the copyright to the ¡Ask a Mexican! column and logo, as well as my second-born son) for permission to use the image," writes ¡Ask a Mexican! author Gustavo Arellano. A Total Call representative tells Arellano that a designer found the logo while looking for stock art through a Google search, and that the company will recall the 10,000 phone cards that haven't yet been sold.
"Pulitzer recipients almost always are employees of established daily publications," notes the San Diego Union-Tribune. The paper also points out that Gold's Pulitzer was the first awarded to a food critic. "I always thought you had to have a grown-up job doing something like reviewing operas at The New York Times to get a Pulitzer, not writing about taco stands for the (LA) Weekly," Gold says.
The alt-weekly's website took placed second in the Best Weekly Newspaper-Affiliated Website category. Last year, first place in the same category went to Baltimore City Paper's website. Both papers are owned by The Times Shamrock Alternative Newsweekly Group. The awards, co-sponsored by Editor & Publisher and Mediaweek magazines, honor the best new media services from the newspaper industry. Winners were announced yesterday.
Yesterday, the Dig revealed that Boston Pride Committee fundraising chair Bill Berggren has a criminal record and is a convicted sex offender. Later in the day, Berggren stepped down from the committee. "My resignation comes in the wake of a malicious attempt to bring my personal life into the public sphere," Berggren writes in his resignation letter. "This has precipitated a hasty judgment from some members of the community, and I anticipate the enemies of Pride will seize this opportunity to attack the organization. In order to protect Boston Pride from unnecessary attacks two weeks before Pride Week, I am quickly stepping aside."
Bingo Barnes will take over as publisher of the free weekly paper "almost immediately," Boise Weekly reports. "It's a good paper, and there is room for improvement," Barnes says. The Press was bought last year by Wick Communications, which also owns AAN member Tucson Weekly. Barnes, who was at Boise Weekly for about five years, also served on AAN's Board of Directors from 2005 to 2006.
OC Weekly placed second in the General Excellence category in the annual awards sponsored by The Missouri School of Journalism. "The Weekly contains all the usual alternative elements -- the reviews, the listings, the personals ads," the judges said. "What makes it stand out and makes it a winner, though, are the deeply reported and powerfully written centerpiece stories. These have both substance and panache." In addition, LA Weekly had two finalists; and the Boston Phoenix, East Bay Express and Seattle Weekly each had one. The winners were announced today.
On Trade Secrets, a resource blog for illustrators, Benjamen Purvis talks about his production process, what he looks for in illustrators and how he finds and chooses them. "I know they can be expensive to produce and distribute, but really, the illustrator's work is more likely going to jump out at me when I look at their post card on my wall than it would in an all-text email with a hyperlink," he says.
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