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Embry Exits. All the Rage editor and general manager Pat Embry has departed his post at the weekly entertainment rag; his last day was Friday. The aging hipster is taking a break from journalism and, in fact, is set to go golfing in another week or two with a group that includes the city's other unemployed weekly editor, Bruce Dobie. Embry wouldn't talk about his departure, except to say that what makes him most proud in his journalistic career is having been a talent scout and mentor to some of the city's best writers, such as Michael McCall and Kay West, both of whom are now Scene contributors. While some found Embry's clubbing and music coverage shockingly incongruent for a guy swiftly approaching 50, he's otherwise had a pretty distinguished career over the last quarter-century working for underdog publications—most notably, the Banner, where he ably covered Vanderbilt sports in the '80s, ran a kick-ass lifestyles section and, finally, ran the newsroom until the place was sold and shuttered in 1998. Embry then went to work for Gannett, reporting to Tennessean publisher Leslie Giallombardo. There are hints, though, that ATR's interim editor, Libby Callaway, who's listed on the Tennessean website under "fashion," will report instead to Tennessean editor E.J. Mitchell. Pat, All the Rage probably needed somebody a little less long in the tooth, given that it's trying to attract the immediately post-pubescent crowd; cheers to you for recognizing that. Beers on us soon (at an over-30 club).
The Trotter Files. Off Limits is saddened to report that WSMV-Channel 4's Darian Trotter has disabled his unintentionally hilarious yahoo website. Last week, Late Edition, the Scene's online supplement, reported the comic highlights of Trotter's website, which included shirtless photos of himself and brain-dead viewer e-mails. Trotter also engaged a woman who posted pornographic photos of various women on his website. "Hey Thanks for the link, I will check it out, and check you out. Lol!" he wrote in response to the woman's message. But now Trotter's site has disappeared, lost to viewers eager to check out his ample pecs.
State of Schools = S.O.S. On Tuesday, schools director Pedro Garcia was scheduled to appraise Metro schools in a long-winded defense of progress the schools have made in the last few years coupled with an altar call to support them with time and money. At its most transparent, the cheerleady speech was a preemptory pitch for a tax increase to fund schools. Cynics might see it as Garcia's attempt to keep his job in the face of lower-than-promised test scores; in the address he pointed to lots of promising developments he said wouldn't matter when he came to Nashville preaching the simplistic gospel of improved test scores. Meanwhile, assistant superintendent LaVoneia Steele submitted her long-overdue resignation Monday, effective June 30; she was viewed by many schools officials as overpaid and ineffectual, a burden on the top-heavy system.
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