As media consumption continually evolves, one paper is following the current and changing its format.

The University of Texas at Arlington’s (UTA) student newspaper, The Shorthorn, was a daily newspaper for over 40 years. Now, the newspaper will make the most of technology by publishing daily on the paper’s website and taking advantage of mobile apps for phones and iPads. They’ll still print publications, but they will have more in-depth features in the print issues and will only print weekly.

Although print versions of various publications around the nation have migrated to the Internet, there are still newspapers sticking to the tradition of print while they utilize a website. The UA’s very own Daily Wildcat is still printing daily while featuring some articles on their website and updating the Twitter accounts linking to the website.

UTA’s change in news delivery is innovative and smart considering the habits and preferences of the students, but a sinking feeling in my gut does not go unnoticed when I think maybe print might actually dwindle down to something non-existent.

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The last time we talked to Leslie Ann Epperson, she was screening a preview of her All Souls Procession documentary, Many Bones, One Heart, and asking the community to share their own All Souls Procession-inspired stories.

This month, Epperson kicked off an Indiegogo campaign to help raise $7,000 to complete the project. She's raised $1,820 and the campaign ends Saturday, Aug. 11. When we touched base with her about the campaign, Epperson told us that part of the dollars raised for the project will go to hire shooters. While she will film parts of the documentary, Epperson said she continues to recover from a car accident that's left her unable to do all the videography herself.

"I really believe in this story and its value—it will show the enormous power of people using creativity to heal sorrow, it will depict the range of talent and skill of Tucson's arts community and present the generosity of those artists as they try to keep the ASP healthy," Epperson wrote to us. "It will portray the importance of telling our stories and showing our common humanity (building tolerance) and show the ability of the people to claim their public spaces. It will be a wonderful showcase for life in the Borderlands, and will also portray some material about Day of the Dead. And it will be compelling, because unknown to the general public, every year the challenges facing the organizers threaten to overwhelm the enterprise."

Epperson added that the most important theme is the way the All Souls Procession and the Procession of Little Angels (a procession organized for children as part of the project) helps people heal from loss.

"I have had plenty of loss in my own life and it helped me to make some experimental videos about those people, and about loss. I saw people doing the same kind of thing at the All Souls Procession and it really moved me. I did not plan on making a long documentary about it—but as I began to understand how important the event is, and how hard some people work to make it happen, I realized it deserved to be an hour long or longer," she wrote.

Feel compelled to help Epperson with her documentary? Head to her Indiegogo page here.

It's already been an odd week for KWFM 1330 AM. The station surprised listeners with an apparent format switch from its liberal talk lineup to music, with Alan Michaels at the helm. However, as of Tuesday afternoon it was back to talk, and figures to stay that way for the meantime. Michaels, the station's Operation Manager, says KWFM had satellite issues over the weekend, and the equipment malfunction affected most of the station's syndicated talk programming.

KWFM wasn't able to get the issue fixed until Tuesday, so Michaels in a pinch did what he's done for decades as one of the market's best known music personalities: play music. But now that the satellite equipment is up and running again, so is the station's syndicated lineup of progressive talk fare.

i97.5 has seemed to be a bad idea from its very inception, unless the Tucson radio market was secretly dreaming of another KRQ, minus Johnjay and Rich and somewhat further down the dial. One bright spot was that the station at least focused on playing the hits (hey, it's that Pitbull song!) instead of the mix of the personality-driven shows with occasional bursts of music format that 93.7 is running with, so that was a slight improvement. However, that plan seems to have gone out the window, since i97.5 is broadcasting Perez Nights Live! for three hours each evening now. Perez Hilton, who was once a very big deal, I guess, seemingly lost quite a bit of influence in the pop culture landscape once the novelty of MS Paint altered photos wore off, but if you want "great music, the biggest stars and the kind of celeb juice [ed. note: gross] that can only be delivered by Perez," feel free to tune in weeknights on i97.5.

No word on whether Tucson is getting its Perez juice unadulterated or not, since the show's distributor (and owner of i97.5...coincidence!) offers a "a kinder, gentler version." Either way, anyone who happens to stumble upon his show still loses.

Ignoring for a moment that he used an emoticon in an article for an actual newspaper or that the basic premise of his piece is strange — organizations attempt to minimize bad press about themselves, as if this is surprising somehow? — Josh Brodesky used his column today to a weird end, announcing the names of the women (allegedly/apparently) victimized by Paul Cunningham's boorish behavior:

Convenient timing. The report never outlined what Cunningham said to the three city employees. It didn't even name the three women on the receiving end of Cunningham's comments: [the names, go over the Star if you feel the need to know them].

The names were already out there, considering that most people could piece together who was probably in the bar based on the list of those who went on the trip and since the Star already mentioned the three in a previous article co-written by Brodesky, but what's gained from pointing that out again? Those three happened to be in a bar with a guy who can't handle his booze on a company trip on night, but apparently, the report, which seemed effective in calling Cunningham out for what he did while establishing that there might be a pattern of poor liquor-induced activity, needed to mention three city employees by name to really sell the point.

I haven't really been sexually harassed in the past, but I would assume the experience is humiliating enough without having the daily newspaper in town dragging your name back into the fiasco unnecessarily, but perhaps Josh Brodesky has his reasons.

Full disclosure: I worked for Buzzmedia after they bought Idolator from Gawker. Eventually, they killed the freelance budget ending my time on the site, then later restarted the website, firing my boss, and turning the site into a shitty Justin Bieber obsessed fan blog. I wasn't thrilled by that turn of events, but that's life, right?

Enough of my work history, right? I don't know exactly the beginning or end of the age bracket, but if you're a music fan under 50 and older than 25, you probably had a subscription to Spin at some point. As people stopped buying both music and magazines, the publication hit a rough spot, but has actually done a solid job of reinventing itself recently, going to a quarterly publication schedule and focusing on its digital presence. That might be all out the window now, as the company that runs Kim Kardashian's website (and other actually music-related sites, to be fair) is Spin's new owner:

Spin Media, the company behind the alternative-music magazine Spin, has been sold to Buzzmedia, a portfolio of music and celebrity Web sites, in a deal that could expand Spin’s reach online but also calls into question its future as a print publication.

Buzzmedia, which owns or sells advertising for music blogs like Stereogum, Hype Machine and Idolator, and also runs sites for Kim Kardashian and other celebrities, will get Spin’s 27-year-old print magazine as well as its Web site, iPad app and live event business, the two companies announced on Tuesday.

Financial terms were not disclosed. The last time Spin was sold, to the publisher McEvoy Group in 2006, the price was reportedly less than $5 million.

Tyler Goldman, Buzzmedia’s chief executive, said the company would expand Spin’s digital staff.

“Spin to us is more than a print magazine,” Mr. Goldman said. “It’s a great media company for storytelling around music and music culture. People are using multiple platforms to consume more content and context from the brands they believe in, and we see the ability for Spin to bring more storytelling to digital platforms.”

When CEOs start talking about "storytelling," my head starts hurting, but maybe it'll work out for everyone.

The press release from Arizona Public Media announcing the changes coming to the weekend programming on 89.1 contained a sentence that, while grammatically problematic, brightened my entire existence:

Whad'Ya Know will no long be carried.

I suppose there must be Whad'Ya Know fans in town, considering the show has been on Tucson's airwaves for years, but the quiz/talk/annoyance show always seemed wildly unfunny to me and stale format-wise from the first time I heard it, so I'm certainly happy that two hours of room has been cleared on Saturdays.

Also, in the process, Tucson gets new shows, including Snap Judgment, which should appeal to This American Life fans interested in something slightly more energetic, and the acclaimed science/storytelling program, Radiolab.

The new weekend schedule, from the press release, is below the cut:

Thanks to Tucson Citizen editor Mark Evans for mentioning a blog post on the Freakonomics site, which referenced a Leo Banks piece from 1997 about the curse of stealing from the Petrified Forest:

Bras are a favorite hiding place for Petrified thieves. A woman told of jamming three samples into her brassiere, only to have her husband discover them. It not only killed the mood, but possibly their marriage as well. The woman said her husband, "a true Christian," was profoundly disappointed by his shocking discovery.

In the summer of 1991, five girls smuggled out three pieces of wood, also hidden in a bra. Strange things began happening almost immediately.

"One person had stomach cramps and diarrhea all night," the letter said. "That same night we were the only ones to be attacked by flying ants in the camp ground. The following morning the second person became very ill, vomiting and weak. She was also unable to see the Grand Canyon as planned. The third person has knocked over and spilled everything she touched.

"The other two people, being guilty only of transporting, have yet to suffer bad luck, except having to put up with us. So just in case this legend is true, we decided to end our bad luck and return the rocks."

Thanks to Media Matters for keeping this clip handy. I don't suspect Bill O'Reilly will actually apologize for his mistaken punditry, but one can hope he's actually a man of his word, right?

• The mugshot slideshow at azstarnet.com

Nearly every news website looking for easy clicks seems to throw up a bunch of local mugshots, the Arizona Daily Star included, but why do we care about seeing our fellow Tucsonans at their worst moment, innocent or guilty? The New Yorker has an interesting article about the sociology of the mug shot online today:

The most ambitious mug-shot blogs present themselves as hybrids of newspaper and fetish sites, with photos organized under section titles that range from “Local News” and “Sports” to “Transgender” and “Beat-Up.” (Some news sites have themselves appropriated the form. The CBS-affiliated, WTSP Channel 10 news, “Tampa Bay’s news leader,” runs a slide show called “Notorious Women” on its Web site, which features dozens of mug shots of attractive women. The entertainment potential of mug shots has crept back to the source: a sheriff’s department in Arizona invites users to its Web site to vote on the “mug shot of the day.”) These sites are full of pathos and picturesque weirdness: little old ladies, suspects whose uncooperative heads are propped up by anonymous gloved hands, characters whose masklike expressiveness seems more appropriate to commedia dell’arte, people done up in elaborate Halloween costumes of animals or devils (or, fatefully, of prison inmates), a mild-mannered looking man with a “FUCK YOU” tattoo covering his entire forehead.

Mug-shot sites brand themselves as a public service, and offer the requisite disclaimers that everyone pictured on them is innocent until proven guilty. But, of course, mug shots are the very image of guilt, and seem almost proof of it, which is why some states caution judges and prosecutors against submitting them to juries. And it’s for this precise reason—instant lurid appeal—that mug-shot blogs can be profitable. Some, like arrests.org and mugshots.com, run ads from major brands: Southwest Airlines, Zipcar, Adobe, Lysol, Nokia. Mugshots.com partners with ten separate vendors with names like mugshotbusters.com that provide a service for people desperate to have their mug shot removed from the site. This semi-extortion scheme is apparently legal.

In case there’s any doubt about the relationship between these sites and online social networks, mug-shot profiles are furnished with a Twitter button. Users can click directly through a particular mug shot to find the person on Facebook. This gets at these sites’ unspoken service as a cultural corrective to the endless self-presentation that happens on social-network sites: here we are allowed to see, or to imagine, what our friends and neighbors look like when they aren’t reclining on the beach or looking good at parties. Mug shots are the gargoyles crouching at the ledges of the cathedral of Facebook.