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Roster re-do continues at City Pages

By Paul Schmelzer | 04.03.08 | 12:01 pm

[Updated] Scroll down the editorial roster at City Pages from just over a year ago and you’ll have to pass the top seven names before you find one who’s still employed…

VVM’s vinegar: City Pages sibling rails against judge’s ruling in lawsuit

By Paul Schmelzer | 04.02.08 | 1:54 pm

After losing a lawsuit in which it was accused of selling ads below cost to drive a competitor out of business, SF Weekly and its parent, Village Voice Media, aren’t happy. In a…

The $6 Million Mouth? City Pages owners lose alt-weekly predatory pricing lawsuit

By Steve Perry | 03.06.08 | 1:10 pm

PhotobucketIt’s hard to imagine that anyone outside the San Francisco Bay Guardian’s legal team expected this: Yesterday, following a five-week jury trial, the SFBG prevailed in its predatory pricing lawsuit against Village Voice Media,…

Shhhh…There’s an elephant in the room

By Robin Marty | 01.08.08 | 10:58 am

With the Republican National Convention now fewer than eight months away, City Pages has brought back “Elephants in the Room…” to provide a dose of snark during these all too serious times.

Expect new pieces to go up soon,…

‘Hardest Working Man at City Pages’ Departs

By Paul Schmelzer | 11.06.07 | 4:26 pm

City Pages music writer Peter Scholtes has pretty much lived local music. He’s written oral histories on the Twin Cities’ hip-hop scene and the downtown music club First Avenue, and he’s devoted thousands of…

MSM Wakeup Call

By Paul Schmelzer | 11.02.07 | 1:42 pm

Stats in perspective: Newspaper online numbers are up! But, says Alan Mutter, the industry has a long way to go. The former San Francisco Chronicle and Chicago Daily News editor compares time spent on newspaper websites — around…

RNC Gets Farked (and Other Media News)

By Paul Schmelzer | 10.11.07 | 7:52 pm

Farking with the RNC logo: The Photoshoppers at Fark.com are having their way with the much-maligned logo for the Republican National Convention, to be held in the Twin Cities next year. From renditions…

Google.com(mie) and More

By Paul Schmelzer | 10.09.07 | 6:50 pm

Sputnik backlash: Some conservatives are irked that Google tweaked its logo last week — making the second G out of an illustration of Sputnik — to commemorate a historic aeronautical achievement by America’s…

Dodge, Spin, Parry

By Paul Schmelzer | 10.08.07 | 7:59 pm

Readers rap: As Kate Parry vacates her readers representative post at the Star Tribune — one of the first papers in the country to have such a position — she gives a rap to management’s knuckles over its plan to…

First Listen: City Pages’ cPod

By Paul Schmelzer | 10.04.07 | 3:17 pm

City Pages just launched cPod, a weekly podcast featuring writers discussing their contribution to the new issue.

First thoughts: the audio quality is pretty poor (think: answering machine), and the delivery is a bit… flat (there’s a reason some…