After 18 years at the alt-weekly, Jim Mullin (pictured) will step down from his position. The announcement comes less than a month after former city official Arthur Teele's suicide, which came on the heels of a New Times cover story about Teele's involvement with a transvestite prostitute. Mullin says that while he was "profoundly affected" by the tragedy, he'd been considering leaving the paper for the past year. His successor will be Chuck Strouse, the current editor of New Times Broward-Palm Beach.

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At this year's conference, food for the writer's soul came in the form of seminars, personal writing critiques and mounds of barbecued meat. Whether at Merle's (pictured) or the less sauce-stained environs of Northwestern University, editorial types rolled up their sleeves and got down to business.

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