Gadi Dechter, author of the Baltimore City Paper's "Media Circus" column, will no longer write for the weekly. "Dechter did such a fine job reporting on The Sun ... over the past couple of years that the daily recently up and hired him," notes City Paper Editor Lee Gardner in this week's issue. (The editor's note is here, bottom of the page.) Most notably, in January Dechter exposed instances of plagiarism by veteran Sun columnist Michael Olesker, who then resigned.

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Sunday's New York Times carried a wedding announcement for Style Weekly Arts Editor Carrie Nieman and her groom, Scott Culpepper; as an online bonus, visitors to the Times' Web site can stream a five-minute "Vows" video and watch the pair recount how they met (at a party) and how he proposed (in Costa Rica). Warning: the romance-averse may need to avert their eyes.

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