AAN News
The Stranger's Music Editor Moves to SF Weekly
Jennifer Maerz's last column for The Stranger, "Goodbye to All That: Or, Our Music Editor Gets All Mushy on Her Way Out," appears in the Feb. 2 issue. Maerz is moving to San Francisco, where she will be the music editor for SF Weekly, in order to be closer to her boyfriend. Maerz writes, "I've really loved it here -- this paper carries a strong, funny, enthusiastic, and truly independent vision of what political and cultural coverage should be. That approach is rare to find." SF Weekly's former music critic, Garrett Kamps, wrote his final "OK Then" column for the Feb. 1 issue. Dave Segal will be the new music editor for The Stranger.
02-05-2006 2:44 pm |
Industry News
Co-Founder of The Stranger Takes Comics Seriously
James Sturm recently talked to the Village Voice about the Vermont school he co-founded, the Center for Cartoon Studies, which is pursuing accreditation. Before co-founding The Stranger, Sturm worked with the comic magazine RAW.
01-18-2006 2:41 pm |
Industry News
Tags: The Village Voice, The Stranger
The Stranger's Unusual Corrections Draw Praise
The Stranger recently took a unique approach to address a significant error made by Theater Editor Brendan Kiley: Kiley confused Eugene O'Neill and Neil Simon, so The Stranger administered a "Eugene O’Neil Simon Quiz." Kiley was asked to identify photos of the two men, as well as biographical facts and excerpts of dialogue. Kiley achieved a perfect score, although The Stranger failed him on his essay (which could be summarized as "big deal"). The "correction" was picked up by Romenesko and Regret the Error, and the latter praised The Stranger's quiz as "fun, interactive, and it demonstrates that the paper takes accuracy seriously enough to do something innovative."
01-17-2006 9:33 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, The Stranger
AWN Plugs Holes in VVM Markets
In its December newsletter, the Alternative Weekly Network announced that "each of the five [Village Voice Media] markets already boasts existing or new publications locked up and ready to include on AWN sales presentations." The new publications include Minneapolis' The Rake, New York's L Magazine, and Nashville's Gannett-owned All The Rage. In addition, AWN hopes to land Seattle's The Stranger, which is currently a Ruxton Media Group paper.
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Amy Gill |
12-13-2005 11:59 am |
Industry News
Dan Savage on His Attraction to Wonkette and Other Topics
The editor of The Stranger publicizes his latest book, "The Commitment," in
a new interview with Boulder, Colorado's Dirt. Among other topics, Savage also discusses the process behind his weekly sex column, the kind of people he likes to hire at the Stranger, and why he thinks "newspapers are a graveyard for people who have lost their ambitions and passions."
10-19-2005 10:08 am |
Industry News
The Stranger Sponsors Third Annual Genius Awards
"The Stranger is the Seattle weekly that sits in the back of the city in its black Chuck Taylors, snickering and swearing," according to Seattle Times columnist Nicole Brodeur. (Ed. note: And Seattle Weekly is the Seattle weekly whose managing editor is actually named Chuck Taylor.) Brodeur accepted an invitation to meet with The Stranger's arts editor, Christopher Frizzelle, even though she felt it was akin "to being invited into the bathroom by the Mean Girls ... You know you could come out with half your hair sheared off or your purse dumped, but you're intrigued." Turns out Frizzelle was merely flogging The Stranger's Genius Awards, in which the paper hands out $5,000 grants to four Seattle artists and an arts organization. The third-annual Genius Awards party will be held this weekend.
10-12-2005 1:20 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Marketing, The Stranger
Dan Savage's New Book "About Creating and Appreciating Family"
So says Brangien Davis in this lengthy feature previewing "The Commitment," due to be released later this month by Dutton. Among other topics, Davis talks to the sex columnist and editor of The Stranger about his family -- both old and new -- and gay marriage. Explaining why he doesn't feel that the family focus of "The Commitment" is philosophically at odds with his weekly sex column, Savage says, "If people are reading my column closely, I think they can see I'm conservatively pro-family. Most people have sex with their spouses, and being pro-sexual-pleasure is the way to keep that love alive."
09-13-2005 3:35 pm |
Industry News
AAN Announces Relief Effort to Support Gambit Employees
AAN announced today that it had established a multi-pronged effort to provide immediate relief to employees of its New Orleans-based member paper
who have been displaced by Hurricane Katrina. The centerpiece of the effort is a special fund that the association has
established in its Alternative Newsweekly Foundation to accept charitable
contributions from members who want to provide immediate assistance to
Gambit Weekly employees. Several AAN-member companies have already announced significant contributions to the fund.
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09-02-2005 12:01 pm |
Association News
"Brainy" and "Bizarrely Brilliant" Writers to Leave The Strangernew
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
08-11-2005 4:08 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, The Stranger
Reaction to Stranger Article Has Microsoft Reeling, Rethinkingnew
"Microsoft Caves on Gay Rights," published in the April 21 edition of the Seattle alt-weekly, accused the software giant of withdrawing its support for an anti-gay-discrimination bill in response to pressure from an evangelical Christian pastor. The New York Times followed the next day with front-page coverage of the story, and since then hundreds of publications around the globe have picked up The Stranger's scoop. Advocates of the legislation reacted with outrage -- vocally enough that Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates told the Seattle Times yesterday that the company might reconsider its stance toward such legislation.
The Seattle Times |
04-27-2005 12:24 pm |
Industry News
Tags: The Stranger
Film Based on Stranger Column Accepted to Sundancenew
Robinson Devor's film Police Beat, which chronicles a week in the life of an African-born Seattle bike cop, has been accepted for the 2005 Sundance Film Festival Dramatic Competition, reports the Seattle Times. Devor co-wrote the film with Charles Mudede, whose Police Beat column in The Stranger provided its inspiration. Zimbabwe-born Mudede would visit police precincts, scan the log for interesting stories, interview the cops involved and incorporate their stories into his column. The film was selected into the prestigious competition from more than 700 submissions. (Free registration required.)
Seattle Times |
12-01-2004 1:15 pm |
Industry News
Post-Election Stranger Cover Becomes a Collector's Itemnew
Requests for the Nov. 11 edition of The Stranger are pouring into the Seattle alt-weekly's offices, largely from readers who found a degree of post-election solace in the issue's unorthodox cover, according to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. The cover features text in a series of colored bars that reads "Do not despair," before reassuring readers that they're part of a "diverse, dynamic, and progressive … urban archipelago" that voted overwhelmingly for Kerry. "People really responded to it," says editor Dan Savage, who wrote the cover text. Incoming requests for the issue number around 500, and that's just the beginning. "People want T-shirts, people want posters," says Savage.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
11-30-2004 12:37 pm |
Industry News
Utne Awards Acknowledge Altsnew
Utne magazine has announced the nominees for its 2004 Independent Press Awards, and Association of Alternative Newsweeklies member papers dominate the "Local/Regional Coverage" category. Austin Chronicle, Chicago Reader, The Stranger, The Texas Observer and Westword all received nominations, as did Los Angeles CityBeat, an upstart alt-weekly that's only been publishing for 16 months. Nominees were chosen from among 2,000 alternative media sources. According to the Utne Web site, selection depended partly upon which publications were "most apt to go missing from the Utne library."
Utne |
10-27-2004 5:06 pm |
Industry News
The Stranger Salutes Genius with Cakenew
Seattle, Wash., alt-weekly The Stranger has tabbed five creative types for its annual Genius Awards, reports Regina Hackett of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. The awards, which Stranger editor-in-chief Dan Savage describes as a middle ground between the MacArthur and Publishers Clearinghouse Awards, debuted in 2003. Like last year, each of this year's winners receives a cake frosted with the words "You're a genius!" and a promise of $5,000. A party for the winners will be held Oct. 15 at Western Bridge, a Seattle art space.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
09-28-2004 5:10 pm |
Industry News
The Stranger Launches New Personals
07-13-2004 3:52 pm |
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