The owner of Impact Weekly is discussing a sale of the paper to Kentucky-based Landmark Community Newspapers Inc., the Dayton Business Journal reports, although Landmark's president says, "We're not even close to making an offer." Yesse! Vice President Kerry Farley, who wants the weekly to focus more on suburban readers, says editorial changes may be in store even if the paper isn't sold. Meanwhile, Yesse! President Craig Hitchcock tells the business journal that ownership of Illinois Times may revert to former owner Fletcher "Bud" Farrar if Yesse! fails to pay the remaining balance on the paper.
In a letter to the editor (see "We deserved credit," third from top), Pittsburgh City Paper Editor Andy Newman notes that the daily's Dan Fitzpatrick relied on City Paper reporting but failed to credit the paper.
The United States has entered a new era of warfare where its enemies hide in the shadows and are highly organized. So how does the U.S. fight these new military threats? War scholar John Arquilla suggests a non-conventional, high-technological war machine. "We're going to have to learn to think like these networks," he says. "The best organizations of the future will think like a street gang, swarm like a soccer team and organize like Wal-Mart." Andrew Scutro of Monterey County Coast Weekly visits the Naval Postgraduate School to talk to military strategists in the first installment in a series on Monterey County, Calif.'s involvement in the War on Terror.
Saint Jack's bar and restaurant has withdrawn its ad in the Philadelphia City Paper depicting the king of Thailand (a demi-God to his people) as a "bling-bling hipster," but the letters and e-mails continue to roll in, Howard Altman writes. "One man explained. 'It's like if I dig your beloved parents body from the grave. And I kick them like toys then I drag them through the very long road. Finally, I leave your parent's body for dogs and the dogs might not eat them cuz they are so terrible ... can you take it if it's just my 'Joke' ha?!'"
Ever wonder what it would be like to live without byproducts of animals? That's what vegans do. That means no meat, no dairy products, and for one New York couple, no breast milk for their newborn child. Caryn B. Brooks of Willamette Week entered the wacky and misunderstood world of vegans for two weeks. "No eggs, no butter, no cheese, no meat: one carnivore's journey," is how she describes it. How she felt afterward surprised her.
