http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf Atlanta news and views, one slice at a time Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:27:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/10/09/newt-gingrich-named-family-values-porn-fan-of-the-year/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/10/09/newt-gingrich-named-family-values-porn-fan-of-the-year/#comments Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:22:20 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=25978 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/10/09/newt-gingrich-named-family-values-porn-fan-of-the-year/feed/ 1 Way to go! http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/08/11/chicago-blogger-answers-important-question-what-is-the-value-of-creative-loafing/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/08/11/chicago-blogger-answers-important-question-what-is-the-value-of-creative-loafing/#comments Tue, 11 Aug 2009 20:18:07 +0000 Mara Shalhoup http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=23644 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/08/11/chicago-blogger-answers-important-question-what-is-the-value-of-creative-loafing/feed/ 1 Anywhere from $3.6 million to $23 million. http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/07/14/cls-financial-woes-rate-ep-coverage/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/07/14/cls-financial-woes-rate-ep-coverage/#comments Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:24:07 +0000 Scott Henry http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=22317 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/07/14/cls-financial-woes-rate-ep-coverage/feed/ 2 Editor & Publisher has a story about the Creative Loafing bankruptcy http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/07/13/last-weeks-top-posts-sex-surveys-marion-barry-streetcars-and-rail-lines/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/07/13/last-weeks-top-posts-sex-surveys-marion-barry-streetcars-and-rail-lines/#comments Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:02:43 +0000 Mara Shalhoup http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=22260 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/07/13/last-weeks-top-posts-sex-surveys-marion-barry-streetcars-and-rail-lines/feed/ 0 Atlantans do it better http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/07/08/washington-city-papers-marion-barry-story-gold/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/07/08/washington-city-papers-marion-barry-story-gold/#comments Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:02:53 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=22043 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/07/08/washington-city-papers-marion-barry-story-gold/feed/ 15 Oh, Marion, wasn't the hidden camera in the motel room enough for one lifetime? http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/05/19/cls-thomas-wheatley-a-finalist-for-national-journalism-award/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/05/19/cls-thomas-wheatley-a-finalist-for-national-journalism-award/#comments Tue, 19 May 2009 20:37:14 +0000 Mara Shalhoup http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=19898 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/05/19/cls-thomas-wheatley-a-finalist-for-national-journalism-award/feed/ 12 And photographer Joeff Davis is a nominee for Journalist of the Year! http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/01/21/creative-loafing-bankruptcy-update-hearing-today-is-stalemate/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/01/21/creative-loafing-bankruptcy-update-hearing-today-is-stalemate/#comments Wed, 21 Jan 2009 21:00:09 +0000 Web Editor http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=13094 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/01/21/creative-loafing-bankruptcy-update-hearing-today-is-stalemate/feed/ 0 Testimony in the hearing didn’t go off as planned and has been continued until March 11. http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/01/29/quill-on-the-alt-weekly-scene-generational-shift/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/01/29/quill-on-the-alt-weekly-scene-generational-shift/#comments Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:12:20 +0000 David Lee Simmons http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/01/29/quill-on-the-alt-weekly-scene-generational-shift/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/01/29/quill-on-the-alt-weekly-scene-generational-shift/feed/ 0 Quill, the official publication of the Society for Professional Journalists, has an insightful piece by Ed Avis on the changing landscape of alternative newsweeklies. Creative Loafing’s Ben Eason is heavily quoted in the piece, naturally, in part because of the recent acquisitions of the Chicago Reader and Washington City Paper. In part Eason talks about [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/12/10/layoffs-at-cl/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/12/10/layoffs-at-cl/#comments Mon, 10 Dec 2007 16:58:40 +0000 Ken Edelstein http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/12/10/layoffs-at-cl/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/12/10/layoffs-at-cl/feed/ 10 Friday was a rough day at the Loaf, perhaps even rougher at our new brethren papers in Washington and Chicago. In Atlanta, we laid off four sales people, a marketing assistant, a sales assistant and our wonderful assistant distribution manager — seven employees total. No Edit staff member was among those cuts, but that’s partly because [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/07/27/word-reams-of-worry/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/07/27/word-reams-of-worry/#comments Fri, 27 Jul 2007 18:00:34 +0000 Andisheh Nouraee http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/07/27/word-reams-of-worry/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/07/27/word-reams-of-worry/feed/ 4 This week, Creative Loafing Inc. purchased venerable alt-weeklies Chicago Reader and Washington City Paper. The Reader’s bloggers and commenters have, thus far, greeted the announcement with fear, sadness and dread. “The Reader has been visited by one of the most common but dispiriting traumas of the newspaper business–new out-of-town ownership.” — Chicago Reader Senior Editor Michael Miner, [...]