Ambition City

July 6, 2007 · Russ Smith, Blog

AT FIRST BLUSH, Gov. Martin O'Malley's May 9 endorsement of Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination seemed impulsive. After all, the 44-year-old former mayor of Baltimore, who restored Maryland to one-party-state status last November when he ousted Republican incumbent Robert…

THE ALTERNATIVE ALTERNATIVE

October 27, 1997 · Russ Smith, Magazine, Books and Arts

I am the editor and owner of New York Press, a weekly newspaper distributed free in Manhattan. That automatically makes my paper a member of the "alternative" media community in the United States, but NYPress is, in truth, a very stark alternative to the world of the "alternatives." We have a rock…