"Raffish," "lurid," "biting," "anti-establishment" -- these are some of the adjectives used in conservative Salt Lake City to describe its scrappy alt-weekly, according to Deseret News. Salt Lake City Weekly Publisher John Saltas takes understandable pride in this description as the paper celebrates its 10th anniversary. "It's unprecedented," Saltas tells the daily. "It merely validates just how important it is to continue telling those stories" that touch sensitive nerves. "We ought to be fair," Managing Editor Christopher Smart says, "but we certainly don't profess to be objective."
Doug Clifton, editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, says a recent Cleveland Free Times column "can charitably be called a total fabrication." David Eden, editor in chief of the Free Times, had written that Plain Dealer "Publisher Alex Machaskee offered up [Auxiliary Bishop James] Quinn's head on a platter to Clevelanders as a smokescreen to save the neck of Bishop Anthony Pilla, a man he favors." Not so, Clifton says.
Every year since early in the 20th century some of the wealthiest men in the world retreat to the lavish Bohemian Grove in California for a secret weekend of what? Fun and frolic? Human sacrifice? Illuminati meditations? Romping in their true reptilian alien forms? No one knows, but theories abound. R.V. Scheide of Sacramento News & Review looks into both the tin-foil hat conspiracy theories and more down-to-earth protests.
Alt-weekly designers discussed the value of new software upgrades during a recent design and production listserv exchange on aan.org. The conclusion? "To put it bluntly -- InDesign just spanks Quark's little bottom," says Mike Spain, advertising art director of Arkansas Times.
