I was surprised to see this ad at JournalismJobs.com:
The Las Vegas Review-Journal, circulation 165,000 daily/240,000 Sunday, is looking for aggressive and enterprising reporters who refuse to be beaten, and have the clips to prove it. We seek an experienced government reporter, a tenacious watchdog with a record of exposing public corruption. For anticipated openings, we also seek reporters who thrive on covering all manner of breaking news, including crime stories. Send resume, cover letter and a half dozen clips or more to City Editor Mary Hynes, Las Vegas Review-Journal, P.O. Box 70, Las Vegas, NV 89125-0070. No e-mail applications, please.
The Review-Journal is the paper of record for Vegas, and as a major metropolitan daily, they can afford to only hire the best and most experienced. Surprisingly, they’re not limiting their search like that. I think the odds that a relative rookie could get hired there are slim, but it’s nice to see them casting such a wide net in their search for the right writers. The New Orleans Times-Picayune did something similar last year.
And no, no plans to apply or leave the Star right now, although both the Review-Journal and Times-Picayune are the types of paper where I could happily spend the rest of my career; I was just looking out of curiosity, given that our intern is looking for a long-term job.
Early in August, I’ll be getting new glasses and new sunglasses, along with an actual accurate prescription for the first time in five years. (Apparently, the world isn’t actually fuzzy. We’ll see about that.)
I’m trying to find cool frames, in an attempt to fool everyone. Unfortunately, there’s not a lot of good choices for glasses shown online, so I could use help and advice.
Right now, though, here’s the current front-runner for sunglasses, Metropolitan from Guess?
Anyway, glasses help would be greatly appreciated.
While I wait on Liz Phair to start her podcast, I thought I’d put up the links for my current ones. Add the following URLs to your podcasting program of choice. (I use iPodder, myself.)
From Our Own Correspondent
Hearing Voices
KCRW’s Film Reviews
KCRW’s Martini Shot
KCRW’s Music Exchange
KCRW’s Overbooked
KCRW’s The Business
KCRW’s The Road Less Traveled
KCRW’s The Treatment
On the Media
WGBH Morning Stories
I’m on the fence about and may cut the following:
Little Gray Books
Studio 360
Just added: KCRW finally has gotten the rights to podcast a portion of one of the greatest music shows of all time, Morning Becomes Eclectic. Get this one — you’ll expand your musical tastes exponentially before you know it.
In honor of the 36th anniversary (good lord!) of the Apollo 11 moon landing, Google has put up a custom Google Maps showing the landing site: Google Moon. (Make sure to zoom all the way in at least once.)
Hopefully, Google Mars won’t be too many years off.
On October 4, Liz Phair releases her next album, “Somebody’s Miracle.”
Given that each of her albums have chronicled her life (although lots of listeners seem to wish she was still the college student who recorded “Exile in Guyville,” and just making “Exile II,” “Exile III” and so on), it’ll be interesting catching up with her. “Little Digger,” “Rock Me” and other seemingly autobiographical tunes on her unfairly maligned last album were fascinating to me. It doesn’t hurt that we’re (roughly) the same age, and if our lives don’t match up exactly — she’s a divorced single mother at this point, for one thing — it sure feels like I’m listening to a peer catching me up since the last time we spoke.
I’ve decided to skip seeing her summer tour — it’s hitting San Francisco, LA, NYC and the DC area, all of which I could theoretically make, with varying degrees of difficulty — in favor of the one she’ll do in support of “Somebody’s Miracle.” If anyone catches her on tour, let me know how she was. (And yes, she still has a fair amount of stage fright for someone at this stage in her career. She’s still lots of fun in concert despite that.)
La Liz has always been fairly Web-savvy when it comes to promoting albums — the entirety of whitechocolatespaceegg was streamed for a weekend before being available in stores — and starting this Friday, she’ll be beginning her own podcast with interviews and music. The URL hasn’t been listed yet on her site, but it sounds like a goody to me. I wish more musicians would take this sort of hands-on approach when it comes to promoting their work.
While I’m now (mostly) over my college era lust for hot guitar-slinging chicks (or I was, until “Rock Star: INXS” came along), apparently I wasn’t as alone in that as I thought: outsideleft (the name is a soccer thing, not a political thing) has compiled a list of the top 12 hottest female guitarists ever. No honorable mention for the star of my one-and-only nudie poster I had in college — Lita Ford wearing only a strategically arranged guitar — but Liz is #2 on the list.
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