EGADS! The intrepid gossip hounds that staff our NEXT LEVEL rumor mill have come up with a juicy one! Sounds like former Houston Press Music Editor Chris Gray will soon become current Houston Press Music Editor Chris Gray! Quite a weird turnabout from just a few months ago when, post SXSW,
Lomax returned to the role he had held for quite some time. In spite of his
hillarious brainfarts regarding Bright Men of Learning and Ben Murphy, Gray, we felt, was doing a good job of noticing things that we like to have noticed. We had a few drinks with the guy and we've seen him at lots of great shows - plus, he's got one of the coolest addresses in town (but we won't tell you what that is). Like Putin, we've looked into his eyes and seen his soul - let's just hope he doesn't start canceling elections. We wish him and Lomax all the best in their new roles and look forward to crashing their awards showcase and drinking lots of delicious sponsorshiped Vitamin Water as a fully credentialed member of O Pioneers!!!
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thank goodness Gray has an amazing writing style!
Just to clarify- Lomax has always been the editor. That has never changed. Chris Gray was the Assistant ME. Currently the Press is operating without an AME.
about time
I'd heard about this for a while now but wasn't aware this was more than just talk of this happening someday. Crazy!
@daniel: Sure, but wasn't Chris' hiring concurrent with Lomax's promotion to Big Boss ME of Village Voice Media or whatever? I kind of had the impression (maybe wrongly) that Chris' duties were more in line with a local ME's while Lomax did national work. Am I wrong?
Matt-
Most of the management and editing of the section is the AME's responsibility. That's been the way things work at the Press for quite a while and it did not originate with his hiring. So while Chris's role was in line with what seems like a chief editor, his actual title was Assistant ME. That was what I meant.
And all of this should have an "as far as I know" attached to it, as I am just a lowly freelancer who has never actually been further into the HP offices than the lobby.
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