Here's a roundup of what our peeps, old and new, are writing.

Outkasts' Andre 3000 admits to Creative Loafing's Atlanta paper: Idlewild sucks.

Nickel Creek, which recently canceled an upcoming show at Jannus Landing, tells our Charlotte paper they're entering "semi-retirement."

Creative Loafing's recently acquired Chicago Reader profiles "the greatest living flutist in jazz." (I'm just glad they don't call her a flautist.)

And CL's other new purchase, the Washington City Paper, features a regular column by Bob Mould, formerly of Hüsker Dü and Sugar.

Blast from the past: My 2002 interview with Merle Haggard, the first profile I ever did for Creative Loafing, during its days as the Weekly Planet.

More me? Why not. I hate malls.