New Dog!

By on January 24, 2013 in Shameless Self-Promotion

And is it EVER new! This issue, Prairie Dog has a new printer–helloooo, Estevan Web Printing! What else? Well, we switched to a smaller format (even MORE portable!) and tweaked the design (four columns instead of five, new ad sizes, couple other nifty changes here and there).

As for the printing itself? It’s just fucking gorgeous — the best, without question, Prairie Dog has ever had.

But there’s more to our paper than a new look. So very much more. There’s this little thing we like to call “content”. And there’s some good content in this one. Here’s a rundown:

JIAN GHOMESHI!!! The mellifluously voiced host of CBC’s excellent morning show Q is coming to Regina next week to read from his new book 1982. It will be an excellent evening. Vanda Schmockel has the excellent interview.

SHINY EXPENSIVE THINGS!!! Well, it looks like Regina’s steaming ahead on an expensive new stadium. That damn cantankerous Dechene looked at the numbers and he doesn’t like it, no sir. But Mayor Fougere is undeterred: Regina deserves a stadium, by gum, and it’s gonna get one. Read about it here.

AW NHL NAW!!! Dan MacRae’s surprise Dog Blog column becomes an even surprisier column in the actual paper! On the cover I wrote that Dan “molests the noble craft of sportswriting”. I stand by my description.

DIGESTING A WHOLE YEAR!!! Prairie Dog’s King Of Dining has a pile of reflections on the food he ate and the things he wrote last year. Sample: “In a year teeming with godawful ideas, I made my contribution to the dumbosphere by eating at five food courts in one day. I could have spaced it out over the course of a year if I’d wanted, but deadlines and determination will launch a person into an odyssey of lonely indigestion.” Ha ha haaa! Aidan! So funny!

WHAT ELSE? Well, there’s more news, and CD reviews, and a bunch of Top 6 columns, and Typo Wiener and Queen City Confidential, and NO LETTERS TO THE EDITOR (because you guys were slackers!), and a pretty, um, penisey comic by Dakota (with bonus Puty!) and more! It’s a good issue! And it’s the only thing like it in Saskatchewan so you should pick up a copy.

About Stephen Whitworth

Stephen Whitworth is a life-long fan of newspapers and alternative media who got his start in the student press a hundred years ago. He moved to Regina in the fall of 1998 and Prairie Dog recklessly hired him nine months later. It was a terrible mistake and the publication deeply regrets its inability to get rid of him. When Whitworth’s not adding typos to the hard work of Prairie Dog’s many terrific writers, writing hilarious (to him) headlines and finding inventive new ways to make the paper late for its bi-weekly press deadline, he enjoys reading magazines, newspapers and alternative comics, listening to music, playing board games, and drinking and eating. He has a cat and seven pet snakes.
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6 Responses to New Dog!

  1. Ron January 25, 2013 at 1:26 am #

    No Barking Dogs either WT BARKFUCK?

  2. Stephen Whitworth January 25, 2013 at 8:50 am #

    Yup, we’ve cancelled it FOREVER. Because you ruined the column Ron. RUINED!

  3. Brad January 26, 2013 at 6:43 pm #

    Boo! What’s the point in writing long, well thought out (though admittedly poorly written) comments when there’s no chance they’ll appear in print? That’s it, nothing but memes and profanity for me.

  4. Gregory Beatty January 27, 2013 at 5:39 pm #

    I think Steve was messing with Ron’s head. We downsized last issue at the tail end of the production run and some stuff got cut. I believe the plan is to have Barking Dogs as a regular feature moving forward.

  5. Stephen Whitworth January 28, 2013 at 8:36 am #

    Actually, we’re going to replace it with a new column called Barkin’ Brad. Hope you’re up for it, Brad.

  6. Barb Saylor January 28, 2013 at 3:59 pm #

    Go, Brad, go!

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