Executive Editor John Yarmuth confirms to a LEO columnist that an acquisition of the Louisville, Ky., alternative is being discussed. Writer Tom Peterson says LEO’s suitors reportedly have an affection — rather than a formula — for operating alternative weeklies. "But as LEO staffers await news, the questions and the uncertainty fly, wafting through the offices, leaking from behind closed office doors and in the wake of hushed conversations," he writes. "Will it happen, and if it does, what will be different?"
Kip Anderson is a pretty unassuming man as he walks down Main St. in Anderson, S.C. Sure, he seems to get recognized wherever he roams, but that stems more from the fact that he’s lived here his entire life than from his stature as a world-renowned music legend. MetroBEAT sits down with the R&B great and traces his career, from the church to the clubs to prison.
The alt-weekly contrarian launches a new weekly column this week in City Paper under the header "Right Field." Smith will also continue writing his "Mugger" column for New York Press, which he sold late last year. But he and his family left Manhattan to return to Charm City, where he co-founded the City Paper (it was originally called City Squeeze) in 1977 and sold it a decade later.
How did Texas slaughterhouses operate illegally for the past quarter-century without getting caught? Maybe no one in the state government knew that the agricultural code forbids horse slaughter. Or perhaps the industry's profits — which benefited not only the plants and buyers, but also several state agencies and Texas universities — were enough that it paid to look the other way. Editor Lisa Sorg looks at horse slaughter practices in Texas in a two-part series.
