Between them, AAN members the Pacific Sun, Palo Alto Weekly, SF Weekly and the San Francisco Bay Guardian took home 11 first-place and eight second- or third-place awards from the Peninsula Press Club. The Guardian led the pack with five firsts, while SF Weekly had four and Palo Alto Weekly had two. Winners were announced at a reception Saturday evening.
AAN members dominated three categories of the 2007 Association of Food Journalists Award Competition. In Best Newspaper Restaurant Criticism, Besha Rodell of Creative Loafing (Atlanta) and Gail Shepherd of New Times Broward-Palm Beach were both winners. In Best Newspaper Food Column, Blair Campbell of the East Bay Express and Malcolm Gay of Riverfront Times both won. And Besha Rodell won again in Best Newspaper Food Feature (circulation less than 150,000), along with Zack Dundas of Willamette Week. The placement of the winners will be announced August 25.
The Republican from Arizona was unmasked following an ultimately successful campaign by the Society of Professional Journalists to publicly identify the senator who placed a secret hold on the OPEN Government Act. The OGA would improve the government's response to public requests for information under the federal Freedom of Information Act, and is supported by AAN and dozens of other groups, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the conservative Heritage Foundation. The bill has already passed the U.S. House of Representatives by a vote of 308-117 and was approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee. Kyl tells the Associated Press that he'll continue to block a vote of the full Senate until the Justice Department's "uncharacteristically strong" objections to the bill are assuaged. His Republican colleague on the Judiciary Committee, Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), disagrees: "This is an important, bipartisan issue that deserves the consideration of the full Senate," Cornyn says. AAN encourages its members to call their senators to let them know that you support the OPEN Government Act and oppose Sen. Kyl's obstructionist tactics.
As veteran attendees know, the trade show exhibit hall at the AAN Convention is the best place in the world to grab an armful of alt-weeklies. If you want your papers included in this magnificent spread of profane tabloids, you'll need to ship them to arrive by Wednesday, June 13, to the following address: AAN Convention Newspaper Display, Pacific Exposition Decorating Company, 2737 NW Nela Street, Portland, OR 97210. (If your shipper needs a phone number, it's 503-417-8000.) You can send as many papers as you like, but 25 to 50 are generally sufficient. And, yes, remaining papers will be recycled.
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.
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