Man Handled!

If there’s one thing the mainstream media loves more than creating its own celebrities, it’s a good old-
fashioned rags-to-riches story. So much the better if that classic American journey involves flesh peddling at one end and a prominent masthead title at the other. That’s why there’s no hotter commodity in local journalism these days than Donny Highrise, the former meatpacker and male escort who’s parlayed his colorful past into a six-figure book deal with Regnery Press—and an editor’s gig at the house organ of the Twin Cities zeitgeist, “Jeepers” magazine. Look for Donny’s memoir, “Nude Beneath the Chaps: Packing Meat, Throwing Heat, and Grinding Sausage,” early in 2006.