Saturday, January 3, 2009
Coming up in this week's Gambit: New Orleanian(s) of the Year edition
Posted by Kevin Allman on Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 5:33 PM
In newsboxes this Sunday, online on Monday afternoon....
• It's our New Orleanian of the Year edition. In past years, we've honored great civic leaders, philanthropists, soldiers and first responders. With so much activism and accomplishment being carried out at street level in 2008, we decided that this was the Year of the Citizen. Pick up the paper to see who got the laurels. (Hint: It's "New Orleanians of the year" -- plural.)
• In Politics, Clancy DuBos looks at Bobby Jindal's year ahead. If the governor spent most of '08 basking in the Technicolor glow of Oz, Clancy sees '09 as a slog through Kansas without ruby slippers...
• Stephen Colbert has truthiness. Up in wicked, wicked Baton Rouge, lobbyists have "ethickyness." Jeremy Alford explains the concept...
• Tuesday is Twelfth Night and the kickoff of Carnival season (yes, already). On the eve of a major new exhibit celebrating the centennial of Zulu, Noah Bonaparte Pais takes a look at the long and distinguished history of the krewe...
• This week also brings the reopening of the Mahalia Jackson Theater for the Performing Arts. Alison Fensterstock previews the 'do...
• Movies: Reviews of Slumdog Millionaire, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and Tulia Texas...
• Art: Franklin Adams, Melissa Roberts, and The Built Environment at the Preservation Resource Center...
• Stage: A look back at Scrooge in Rouge, and a look ahead to the comedy of The Uprising...
• Making his debut on our puzzle page: crossword constructor extraordinaire Merl Reagle.
• ...and some changes for us at Gambit Weekly The Gambit.
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Well, there aren't many sureties in the newspaper business any more -- but one of them is that no one gets his or her news once a week. We have a paper edition that comes out once a week; we have daily content here; and we're on Twitter and Facebook and YouTube and soon to be elsewhere. So the "Weekly" name no longer made sense. When the paper was founded in 1981, it was just called "Gambit." In 1996, it changed to "Gambit Weekly." And now we're "The Gambit," mostly because that's what our readers call it anyway. And I think the new name carries a certain Yat accent that I like -- "Hey, brah, you seen The Gambit?"
Will we have to compete against the other Gambit? http://www.cinematical.com/2008/11/29/a-glimpse-of-gambit-wolverines-co-star/
Seems like an awful lot of reasoning and forced thoughts just to change the name. Nobody is getting news information from facebook or twitter. The paper still comes out once a week and the best of new orleans site is still updated - once a week. Seems to me that Gambit Weekly still makes perfect sense.
