The Alibi Kicks Even More Ass Than You Thought

Was there ever any doubt about it?

Much obliged.

but super news, certainly. I suspect it's only the beginning.

but you should seriously have a clue about the subject before you write some half-assed, insulting blog about the newspaper whose website you are blogging on. Crosswinds did not exactly disperse their staff to go onto greener pastures. I'm not gonna bash them posthumously, so suffice it to say that anyone who is in the business knows the story, and you don't, so shut up.

I don't think that the amount of awards won is necessarily indicative of anything other than the hard work and dedication of the writers who submitted their stories for consideration. So take your passive-aggressive doomesday bullshit and shove it in the hole where your daily prune juice exits.

... a good little paper, but it's not correct to say that they always won more awards than the Alibi. They merely promoted their victories that way, which is fine--spin makes the world go 'round. They did particularly well, for example, during a year when the Alibi didn't enter ANY press contests.

Over the years, including those years when Crosswinds was still around, the Alibi has won stacks and stacks of regional and national awards. (To my knowledge, Crosswinds never won any national awards.) We haven't always done a good job of letting our readers know this, but it's the case nonetheless.

—Steve

But, it's the Land of Enchantment! Wake up and smell the chorizo.

I am an open-minded person, and I welcome constructive criticism by individuals who are knowledgeable and/or well-meaning. I do, however, abhor rudeness for its own sake. Especially ignorant rudeness.

Letters: why not have more of them in this so-called community newspaper? They don't cost anything, so there's no whining about that, and they involve actual people with other opinions from Albuquerque (natives?) that aren't working at the alibi, (or at least I hope that is the case.)

News: Saddest of all this part of the newspaper can't decide whether to cover local news or national news. The egos behind the section aren't apparently fulfilled with covering local news which alibi admittedly does most of the time better than the Journal, Tribune, business weekly and iQ put together. But at the same time the worst sin of all is committed on a regular basis: a good local news story without any follow-up ever. That is just so lame, the stories don't end because you wrote once about them. Then to top it off you have a news editor who rarely actually writes, try to explain that! At least there is a consistent writer to cover the city council.

Film: When Devin O'Leery goes you people might as well all pack it in. The guy can write about anything and not only covers, nearly single=handedly the film and tv writing but contributes to the best column, though fluffy-fun, in the news section as well provided the occasional larger cover story in news or entertainment.

Art: Editor Allen does a good job with art, no doubt, but so regularly farms out his book reviews that I have actually come to prefer writers like John Freeman or Marisa, who seems to be developing nicely along the lines of o'Leery--she'll provide nice stories in any part of the paper when the editors are too lazy or too full of themselves to put pen to paper, or however you do it these days.

Food; What a waste, Laura M might as well just give her job to Jennifer Wolitz or to Jessica Car, since her contributions are apparently only metaphysical and never could sully her standards with ink and paper.

Music: Hmm, less Laura then ever though you could argue that being editor of two sections is hard work and probably represents cheap-ass, corner-cutting cost measures by owner/managers. But still, to lord over two sections and then to resolve that the best way to handle them both is to do nothing for either, seems so lame there should be a law against it.

Thank god for Marisa and Amy D. who we need to read more of. And, this bout of Constructive Criticism is only about the newspaper itself, where o were are the actual staffers on the blog? At least the people at Duke City Fix [link] are regularly contributing to the point where you can get a feel for their positions on certain things and can begin to follow them as writers.

Come on Jenn, rip me apart! I know I have it coming.

I don't know what you're talking about...

Jenn's mom? Jenn herself?

I love your paper. It totally rocks and your awards just prove even more that you do have quality writing and coverage. Thanks for your hard work and giving ABQ a great alt paper.

I miss the physical touch of the paper. The touch that those pages gives one is an existential feeling (Sartre).

To sit at a window in Frontier and people watch as I read the alternatives is no longer. It is wonderful that the Alibi is online and one may access it from anywhere around this globe. Through the distance one is still able to keep the Albuquerque flame glowing and growing inside.

Kudos to the Alibi.

Yes, Miss Wohletz is a brilliant writer. And humble, too.