New York Magazine's lengthy feature asks: Can the "potty-mouthed new owner" make the legendary downtown paper "relevant again?" In a colorful interview, New Times' executive editor reveals his hopes "that the Voice employees would realize a union wasn’t necessary" and says that he likes "the arts coverage. But we’ve got to work on the front of the book." In response to charges of conservatism, Lacey argues that his "papers have butt-violated every goddamn politician who ever came down the pike" before concluding, "Of course, you want people who love the place, but this is a business that is based on performance. It isn’t a legacy." VVM CEO David Schneiderman and several present and former Voice staffers also offer their thoughts on changes at the paper.
The short history of alternative newspapers began fifty years ago today, when Norman Mailer, Dan Wolf and Ed Fancher published the first issue of the Village Voice. To celebrate its golden anniversary, the world's best-known alt-weekly published a special issue that provides a taste of "the notorious fractiousness, the intensely personal journalism, and all the other quirks that make the Voice the Voice." Among other things, the issue includes a mix of original essays, including Nat Hentoff on the history and spirit of the Voice, Jarrett Murphy on the history of Voice ownership, and Robert Christgau on how the Voice invented rock criticism.
The editor of The Stranger publicizes his latest book, "The Commitment," in a new interview with Boulder, Colorado's Dirt. Among other topics, Savage also discusses the process behind his weekly sex column, the kind of people he likes to hire at the Stranger, and why he thinks "newspapers are a graveyard for people who have lost their ambitions and passions."
"The Stranger is the Seattle weekly that sits in the back of the city in its black Chuck Taylors, snickering and swearing," according to Seattle Times columnist Nicole Brodeur. (Ed. note: And Seattle Weekly is the Seattle weekly whose managing editor is actually named Chuck Taylor.) Brodeur accepted an invitation to meet with The Stranger's arts editor, Christopher Frizzelle, even though she felt it was akin "to being invited into the bathroom by the Mean Girls ... You know you could come out with half your hair sheared off or your purse dumped, but you're intrigued." Turns out Frizzelle was merely flogging The Stranger's Genius Awards, in which the paper hands out $5,000 grants to four Seattle artists and an arts organization. The third-annual Genius Awards party will be held this weekend.
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