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...Stephen Gandel...
...club that's been hailed as the temple of satire - its alumni list reads like a Who's Who of modern comedy, from John Belushi and Alan Arkin to Tina Fey and Stephen Colbert - you wouldn't know it to look at its interior. The small, intimate club's black walls and stark stage are meant to keep the focus on the talent; the only signs of its pedigree are the photographs and signatures of the stars who once trod its boards on the walls backstage...
...several dozen volunteer newsies spread out across San Francisco to hawk copies of the city's brand new newspaper, the San Francisco Panorama. The 320-page doorstop, printed in full color on old-fashioned broadsheet paper, sold for $5 on the street and $16 in bookstores. With articles by Stephen King, Michael Chabon and Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Robert Porterfield, the Panorama was an homage to the increasingly threatened - some would say obsolete - institution of print journalism. The paper's entire print run sold out in less than 90 minutes. (Read about the future of newspapers...
...produce. Only seven of them were full-time staff members. Reporters didn't have word limits. The Bay Bridge investigation was funded by outside sources (San Francisco Public Press and Spot.us). None of the sports section's 16 pages contain game scores; eight of them are filled by a Stephen King essay on the World Series. Most of the paper went to press weeks before it came out, making it a poor source for breaking news. (The front section is the one exception; its news briefs cover events only a couple of days...
...committee six months before my uncle died. There were people on the corner with a huge 'Coakley for Senate' sign two days after his funeral." - Stephen E. Smith Jr., a son of Ted Kennedy's sister Jean (Boston Herald, Sept...