A dark trip through Portland’s eyesores written by former staff writer Sara Donnelly and illustrated by Westbrook freelancer Mike Gorman has been honored in the small-papers division of the newspaper competition the alternative press takes most seriously.
The story, “Ugly Portland,” published July 28, 2006, took third place in the “format buster” category in the national Association of Alternative Newsweeklies competition. (AAN defines a “format buster” as an article whose thrust and graphic presentation are contrary to usual newspaper conventions.)
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- Magnificent seven
The annual journalism awards handed out by the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies (AAN) are the real deal.
- Laurels
The Portland Phoenix won two awards at last week’s convention of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies.
- Alternative victory
Each year, the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies holds an editorial contest among its 120-some member papers and announces the winners at the organization’s annual convention; this year the Boston Phoenix took home two prizes.
- Port Clyde is en Vogue
This month’s Vogue magazine includes pictures of Kirsten Dunst lounging around in ball gowns the size of small condos, an article on how to figure out what kind of silhouette you are, and, toward the back, a 14-page fashion spread shot on location in the haute-capital of Maine — Port Clyde.
- Phoenix.com wins at AAN conference
ThePhoenix.com Web site won first place at the annual Association of Alternative Newsweeklies conference.
- Off the press!
I can write the alternative press’s history — or one passably passionate version of it — because the institution’s trajectory matches my own.
- Portland Phoenix honored
At the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies annual awards banquet in Tucson, Arizona, last Friday, Portland Phoenix staff and freelancers were recognized for their coverage of the 2008 elections, with a second-place award, tying the City Newspaper of Rochester, New York, for the honors.
- Sex, Iraq, and pop culture
How many times a day do you think about sex? How many times a day do you think about the war in Iraq?
- Capital loss
Two things stood out when the book tour for an impressive new anthology, The American Idea: The Best of the Atlantic Monthly , rolled through town this past month.
- Hermes’s boner
The Odyssey is the epic that's launched a thousand adaptations.
- The “I” word
Greg Mitchell had a very nice piece in the trade magazine Editor & Publisher about how our mainstream media — an absolute disgrace throughout the Bush administration — is avoiding using the word “impeachment” concerning the Boy in the Bubble’s affronts to our freedom and global image.
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