“At the height of its popularity in the late 1980s, circulation reached 1.2 million copies per week. Headlines like ‘Bigfoot Kept Lumberjack as Love Slave’ ruled its covers. A team of dedicated journalists filled its pages with satirical fiction. If fact happened to stumble its way inside, it would be adjusted to fit the paper’s mission statement.” Here, from the people who worked there, is the story of everyone’s real favorite supermarket tabloid. – Mental Floss
Tag: 08.07.20
Lorenzo Wilson Milam, The Johnny Appleseed Of Independent Community Radio, Dead At 86
He didn’t start the community radio movement (that was Lew Hill of Pacifica), but, as one radio historian wrote, “if Lew Hill fathered the movement, Lorenzo Milam reared it.” He founded independent, community-supported stations in Seattle (KRAB-FM), St. Louis, San Francisco, Portland, Dallas, and other cities, and he even wrote a guide to starting up a station, titling it Sex and Broadcasting. A polio survivor, he spent later life as a writer (The Cripple Liberation Front Marching Band Blues; Cripzen: A Manual for Survival) and published two literary journals. – The New York Times
Great – Time To Practice! But A Musician Gets Restless…
“Some days, I think this glut of time is an offering. More often, however, it’s a force-feeding. To have ideas, you need constraints, which for us were the auditions, rehearsals and performances dribbled across our calendars. Now that those boundaries have evaporated, I have begun to realize how much I depended on them and how much my relationship with music was predicated on feeling present with others, both in the audience and onstage. If a sonata falls in the forest and nobody hears it, did it make a sound?” – Washington Post
General Manager Out At DC’s WAMU After No-Good, Very Bad Summer
“J.J. Yore … presided over big increases in revenue and membership since the Marketplace co-creator arrived at the public radio station in 2014, but the end of his tenure began with a public debate over the station’s ability to retain Black journalists and blossomed into a full-on staff revolt that followed an investigation into one editor and revelations about how WAMU treated allegations of harassment by former reporter Martin Di Caro.” – Washingtonian
Judge Rules Movie Studios Can Own Theatres For First Time In 71 Years
This game-changing decision could result in a complete overhaul of not only who owns theater chains in the near and long-term future, but how, when and where consumers will enjoy feature film content. – Forbes
Even When We Can’t Travel, Postcards Exist Outside Of Email And Texts To Create Connection
“Maybe you’ve learned the seasons in a new way. Perhaps, in some way, you are a visitor in your city, state, land.” – The New York Times
Raphael Probably Was Buried At The Pantheon
In the year of the 500th anniversary of Raphel’s death, a 3-D reconstruction of his face, using a plaster mask of his skull, provides what may be “concrete proof that the skeleton exhumed from the Pantheon in 1833 belonged to Raffaello Sanzio and [may open] the paths towards possible future molecular studies aimed at validating this identity.” – The Guardian (UK)
Lorenzo Soria, President Of Golden Globes Group, 68
Soria was the president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, and former editor of the Italian news weekly L’Espresso. He began his second term as president of the press association in 2019. – St. Louis Post-Dispatch (AP)
Visual Artists Stuck At Home Are Using The Virtual World As Source Material
Paint what you see – including virtual realities that might just be based on paintings. – CBC
Britain’s Scariest Horror Film Disappeared For Decades
The perfect holiday film? “First broadcast on ITV, at 9pm Christmas Eve 1989, it haunted all who watched it, thanks in part to Wise’s tense, economical direction, and one of the greatest jump-scares in the history of horror. ‘[It created] a genuine physical reaction,’ wrote Nancy Banks-Smith in the Guardian, ‘as if one layer of your skin had shifted over another.'” – The Guardian (UK)