Bill Carey, a contributor to the Nashville Scene, will be moving to Knoxville this September to become editor of Metro Pulse. He will replace current Editor Jesse Mayshark, who is moving to New York. Metro Pulse also has a new managing editor, Scott McNutt, who has been the alt-weekly's monthly humor columnist. Mayshark, who is getting married this summer, says he wants to return to writing and reporting.
Seventeen-year-old Corey Duffel of Walnut Creek, California is the closest thing the skateboarding world has to baseball's John Rocker: a young punk on the verge of stardom whose mouth gets him into trouble. But there's no such thing as bad publicity in skating. Even if you drop out of school, use the "N" word in a magazine article, and lose all your sponsors, you still can get back in the game if you (and your mom) deliver the appropriate mea culpas. And even if you do a spectacular face-plant during a photo shoot that leaves you with broken bones and causes your scrotum to swell up to the size of a coconut, the kids will forgive you if you come back in style. East Bay Express staff writer Justin Berton looks at the peculiar marketing mechanics of a sport that's now bigger than baseball among American teens.
Bowing to reader pressure, Cincinnati CityBeat has resumed printing movie times for two art movie houses after a nearly yearlong standoff with the owner. City Beat's film critic, Steve Ramos, is still banned at the theaters, and the owner, Gary Goldman, still won't allow CityBeat racks in the lobby. Ramos made Goldman mad last June by revealing that Goldman had ordered three XXX seconds of film snipped out of the movie, The Center of the World. "We will not, however, apologize for br eaking the unauthorized editing story last year, nor will we apologize for criticizing Goldman's handling of the situation," Co-Publisher and Editor John Fox writes.
