AAN News
City Pages Writer Releases Book, Sells Screenplay
Diablo Cody -- former stripper, former City Pages associate arts editor and current City Pages "Pussy Ranch" blogger -- likes to keep busy. Her new book, "Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper," hit stores last week; her first screenplay, "Juno," is scheduled to begin filming in May and is getting buzz as a female "Napoleon Dynamite"; she signed a two-script deal with Warner Bros.; and she is writing a TV pilot for UPN. All of her edgy work is set in Minneapolis. Cody (real name: Brook Busey-Hunt) tells Pioneer Press. "Mark my words, it's going to be like Minneapolis in your face. The world is going to get tired of this city," she says.
01-03-2006 1:24 pm |
Industry News
Melissa Maerz: Doing It on the Road
When an interview extends over 10 days -- as it did for Melissa Maerz when she went on tour with Minnesota band Friends Like These -- it was important to set up the rules from the start. Whatever wasn't immediately declared off the record was on the record. The resulting account, published in City Pages, was unsparing in its portrayal of the band's disappointments as well as its hopes, offering a dose of on-the-road realism. This is the fourth in a "How I Got That Story" series highlighting the AltWeekly Awards' first-place winners.
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Derek Schleelein |
10-19-2005 10:16 am |
Association News
CityPages.com Announces RSS Feeds for Online Content
06-21-2005 4:58 pm |
Press Releases
Tags: City Pages (Twin Cities)
City Pages Launches Redesigned Web Site
02-22-2005 3:41 pm |
Press Releases
City Pages Web Site To Become Election Central
10-29-2004 4:31 pm |
Press Releases
4th Annual Get Real: City Pages Documentary Film Festival
Seven Days Featuring 19 Twin Cities Premieres
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10-29-2004 12:24 pm |
Press Releases
City Pages Voting Promotion Might Be Illegal, Official Warnsnew
Minnesota's Secretary of State, Mary Kiffmeyer, sent a letter to City Pages on Monday, warning the paper that its "I Will Vote" promotion might violate federal law prohibiting the payment or acceptance of payment for voting or registering to vote, reports the Minneapolis Star Tribune. At a City Pages booth at summer events, young voters were encouraged to register to vote and promise to turn out on election day as well as to sign up for a chance to win a free overseas trip. Kiffmeyer says her letter was prompted by David Strom, president of the Taxpayers League in Minnesota and City Pages' "Villain of the Year" for 2004, who issued a news release last week urging her to intervene.
Minneapolis Star Tribune |
09-01-2004 12:53 pm |
Industry News
The Onion to Launch Twin Cities Editionnew
The satirical weekly will start circulating a free print edition in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, on Sept. 2. In addition to carrying stories published on its Web site, The Onion will print local reviews and calendar listings, the same type of content for which City Pages, an AAN member in the same market, is known. The Onion president Sean Mills claims that readers of the humor paper are significantly younger than readers of alternative weeklies. According to the Star Tribune, The Onion is looking next to start papers in San Francisco, Boston and Austin, Texas.
Star Tribune |
08-11-2004 1:05 pm |
Industry News
City Pages Debuts Weblog Section
"Twin Cities Babelogue" has turned more than 20 writers, editors and freelancers loose on the paper's Web site to talk about anything they want, any way they want. The experiment is paying off so far, with 10 percent of all Web site visitors now checking out the Babelogue during their time on the site. "I figured it was going to be a waste of time and lobbied openly against it," Senior Editor Brad Zellar tells AAN News. "Turns out, however, that I've taken to it."
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Matt Pulle |
05-14-2003 1:40 pm |
Industry News
AAN Writers Are Winners and Finalists in James Beard Awardsnew
New Times writers swept the Newspaper Restaurant Review or Critique category of the 2003 James Beard Foundation Journalism Awards with Jason Sheehan of Westword winning, while Jill Posey-Smith of Riverfront Times and Robb Walsh of Houston Press were finalists. Mark Stuertz of the Dallas Observer was the winner in the Newspaper, Magazine or Internet Reporting on Consumer Issues, Nutrition and/or Health category for his article “Green Giant." Dara Moskowitz,
City Pages (Twin Cities) and Walsh
were finalists in the newspaper series category.
James Beard Foundation |
05-14-2003 1:14 pm |
Industry News
City Pages Wins Another Round in Courtnew
A state appeals court has sided with City
Pages (Twin Cities) in its attempt to force
the state and Blue Cross/Blue Shield of
Minnesota to reveal how much they
paid a high-powered law firm for its
work on the state's lawsuit against the
tobacco industry. "We saw the lawsuit as
a golden opportunity
to
remind our elected officials and their
powerful friends that to be healthy, a
democracy
must be
watched over by a free, independent, and
vigorous press," the paper says in an
unsigned editorial.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
02-05-2003 5:29 pm |
Industry News
City Pages' Publisher Raids Brother's Staffnew
Steve Perry, a former editor of City Pages (Twin Cities), will return to his old job, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports. Perry has been writing for The Rake, a new monthly started by Tom Bartel, brother of City Pages Publisher Mark Bartel. Perry replaces Tom Finkel, who was fired in July. Perry is the second former editor restored at a Village Voice Media paper this week, following Skip Berger's return to Seattle Weekly.
Minneapolis Star Tribune |
08-30-2002 10:57 am |
Industry News
Alt-Weekly Writers Appear in Da Capo Collection
“This book, I hope, is a book of encounters, none of them predictable,” novelist and music writer Jonathan Lethem writes in his introduction to “Da Capo Best Music Writing 2002.” Seven of the 28 articles in the collection were originally published in alternative newsweeklies, including The Village Voice, Chicago Reader and City Pages (Twin Cities).
(FULL STORY)
AAN Staff |
08-30-2002 1:54 pm |
Industry News
Finkel Fired from Editor's Post at City Pagesnew
Publisher Mark Bartel of City Pages (Twin Cities) has fired Editor Tom Finkel because they disagreed on whether the paper should change direction, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports. Finkel came to City Pages in 1997 from Miami New Times. "I don't want to play this like Tom and I have been butting heads for 4 1/2 years; I really like Tom,"
Bartel tells the daily. "I just felt like I wanted the editorial to take more chances, to be edgier."
Minneapolis Star Tribune |
07-23-2002 9:57 am |
Industry News
Battle of Brothers in the Twin Citiesnew
The Minneapolis Star Tribune profiles brothers Tom and Mark Bartel, now operating competing publications, AAN-member City Pages (Twin Cities) and a new monthly, the Rake. Mark Bartel, publisher of City Pages, now seems secure out from the shadow of his older brother, reports Jon Tevlin. Tom Bartel and his wife and partner Kris Henning, are in their element spinning a new publication into existence.
Minneapolis Star Tribune |
03-25-2002 9:51 am |
Industry News
