February 24, 2000
UTNE MAGAZINE ONLINE ANNOUNCES MARCH FEATURED DISCUSSIONS
MINNEAPOLIS, MN -- Café Utne, Utne Magazine Online's web discussion community, will host the following featured discussions during the month of March.
* HIGH ON HEMP: Ditchweed Digs In. Hemp-ster Ted Williams, editor-at-large for Audubon and conservation editor for Fly Rod & Reel, will be in Café Utne February 29 - March 14 talking about how hemp could save the family farm.
* SOFT NEWS, HARD SELL -- WHY REAL STORIES ABOUT REGULAR FOLKS NEVER GET TOLD: Suzanne Braun Levine muses this dilemma in her New Planet story about why real-folk stories don't make "news". Join her in the Café March 7 - 21.
* SEE SPOT RUN: Organizing for neighborhood off-leash dog parks is Claudia Kawczynska's passion; she'll be in the Café Utne Pets conference March 14 - March 28. She gathers her insights serving as editor-in-chief of The Bark, a magazine for the "dogerati" that started out as a newsletter advocating off-leash use of Berkeley's Cesar Chavez Park.
* BEYOND PRIVACY: Who Are You? And who has a right to know? Utne Magazine's own Jeremiah Creedon and Karen Olson bare themselves in the Café March 14 - April 4, discussing the March/April 2000 Utne Magazine cover section.
Utne Magazine Online (www.utne.com) has been published independently in Minneapolis since 1995, delivering a rich archive of Utne Magazine magazine material from "The Best of the Alternative Media", plus hundreds of book, magazine, music, web site and product reviews. Café Utne is one of the nation's oldest and most active discussion communities online (Source: Forum One, January 2000). Utne Magazine is the nation's leading digest of alternative ideas. Launched in 1984, the bimonthly magazine has a paid circulation of 225,000 and has been nominated three times for the National Magazine Award for General Excellence. As a "media filter", it offers a diverse and eclectic menu of reporting on business and economics, the arts, the environment, politics, popular culture, world affairs and personal growth.