Faced with dramatically falling ad pages and sluggish online advertising, the Red Herring has recently gone beyond its full-time staff reduction and has slashed its freelance budget. Tony Perkins fired his brother. Michael Perkins declined to comment. The book, going through a revised second edition, has brought the Herring a fair amount of favorable press and the magazine's name is all over the book's dust jacket. So it'll be interesting to see what other magazine takes on Michael Perkins and, by extension, gets to share some cover art with the Herring.
Unhappy families are alike, particularly when they split up.
Jennifer Levinson alleges in the suit that Kathy Levinson is violating joint property agreements the two women made as part of the legal arrangements to combine their assets because they could not legally marry. In what sounds like a sadly typical, even stereotypical, domestic arrangement, Kathy worked at one of the Internet's more successful companies while Jennifer stayed home with the kids. She is also alleging that Kathy Levinson has sold stock and other assets without divvying up the proceeds as called for in the couple's partnership agreement. That last allegation may have some basis. Chris Nolan writes for the New York Post.