Those of us who were nursing our hangovers probably missed out. But on New Year’s Day, the nexus where Social Media Mavens, Social Justice Warriors, and Crossword Puzzle Solvers meet got a rare moment in the spotlight when the New…
The Thanksgiving leftovers barely had time to cool before Major League Baseball’s commissioner quietly tiptoed into the national political fray. Two days later, Rob Manfred’s office was forced to very publicly scramble out of said swamp. On Friday, November 23,…
Located a scant few miles south of the Wisconsin Dells theme-park mecca, the town of Baraboo takes its name from a river that meanders through the adjacent countryside. Prior to this past week, Baraboo’s chief claim to fame was its…
If you’re like most Americans, the holiday you most closely associate with the end of October is Halloween. Not so the purity-minded folks at the National Center on Sexual Exploitation, who faithfully commemorate Pornography Awareness Week. And this year, the…
Michael Lacey has spent his entire professional life in the newspaper business. With his business partner, Jim Larkin, Lacey cofounded Phoenix New Times during the Vietnam War. The two men would go on to build Village Voice Media, a chain of weeklies…
In an in-depth profile by Elizabeth Nolan Brown published this week on the website Reason.com, veteran newspaper publishers and former Backpage.com co-owners Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin spoke out candidly about their arrests on federal charges of money laundering, conspiracy,…
Before Game 5 of the NBA Western Conference playoffs on May 24, a reporter approached Steve Kerr. She asked the Golden State Warriors coach to share his thoughts about the National Football League’s announcement earlier that day that it will require…
Front Page Confidential recently hailed the First Amendment bona fides of one Michael Avenatti, the media-savvy California-based attorney who’s representing adult-film star Stormy Daniels (née Stephanie Clifford), who claims, pretty convincingly, that she had a one-night stand with Donald Trump…
Attorney Michael Avenatti, the media darling who represents adult-film star Stormy Daniels, came out swinging yesterday in a federal court filing in New York. In the filing, Avenatti contends that his recent disclosure of financial records pertaining to President Donald…
Just as we were all nearly finished cooling down from Sarah Sanders’s plagiarized pecan pie, the New York Times went and published a story about an Ohio neo-Nazi, and the social-media sphere had a conniption. In “A Voice of Hate in America’s…
