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Village Voice to Merge with New Times

The company that owns the venerable and iconic Village Voice — now in its 50th year — will merge with the nation’s largest alternative weekly chain, New Times Media, to form an alternative media company with 17 papers and a combined weekly circulation of 1.8 million, about 25% of the …

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Britney Baby Pics Nixed

If you stumble upon pics of Sean Preston Federline, infant son of Britney Spears and Kevin Federline, as, say, this site did, it’s probably best if you don’t post them. Friday, Spears’ record company Jive issued this stern statement: “A number of photographs of Britney Spears, her husband Kevin Federline …

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Sex Sells … To Men … If They Remember the Brand

A first-of-its-kind online study combining a questionnaire with an eye-tracking method has revealed that sex in print advertisements improves the ad for men — including their “like” for the ad, the product, and all-important “purchase intent” — but it decreases ad effectiveness for women. Interestingly, with their brains presumably aswim …

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John Peel Day

They treat their legendary radio DJs pretty well over there in the old UK: over 300 concerts took place — including a Joy Division-only set by New Order — Wednesday and Thursday to mark John Peel Day in honor of the BBC’s late, great radio man. Anyone who has ever …

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