I plan on hitting the phone tomorrow and asking my town's local paper and two of the Boston weeklies for contact information for their arts sections. I think I might have a shot at the local paper, since they're always advertising for reporters, and seem pretty willing to let citizens of the town send in material. The weeklies, I'm not sure of. I have a friend who used to edit the bi-weekly gay section of one of them, but he's always kind of vague when I ask him for advice. Maybe I'll try again, though.
Persistence sometimes wins out in the end.
I figure if I try to make one small step every day, without any expectations attached to it, or the expectation that it's most likely going to lead nowhere, I'll actually make some progress. Tobias , a short story writer, set himself the goal of getting 100 rejections last year. I think that's an excellent idea. Know that you're probably going to make no progress on most of your attempts, but stay focused. Sending out one query per day shouldn't be too hard.