To nobody's surprise, this week's announcement of the New Times-Village Voice Media merger has generated a boatload of coverage from every corner of the Internet. You could keep track of it all with a Google News search, but Google News isn't very good yet at separating wheat from chaff. At aan.org we're reading it all, from prosaic news reports to the looniest blog ravings, so we can point you to some of the more interesting coverage while sparing you endless repeats of the AP feed. We will continue to update this page throughout the week.
Talk of the Nation, October 27, 2005 · Guests: Mike Lacey, executive editor for New Times; Bill Wyman, assistant managing editor for NPR's Arts Desk; Patty Calhoun, editor, Westword in Denver, Colo.; Tim Redmond, executive editor, San Francisco Bay Guardian weekly.
The two papers swept the Newspaper Feature Story category in this year's contest, which is administered by the Association for Women in Communications. The Loaf's Mara Shalhoup won in the circulation above 100,000 category, for Learning to Hit a Lick, which also won the Feature Story category in this year's AltWeekly Awards. And the Express' Kara Platoni won in the under 100,000 category, for The Ten Million Dollar Woman. The awards were presented this weekend in Lubbock, Texas.
We don't know enough about art or classified advertising to answer that question definitively, but the School of the Art Institute of Chicago's upcoming "I Saw You" exhibition certainly qualifies as rare and unusual. The exhibition, which opens Nov. 4, features work by SAIC students "inspired by the Chicago Reader's I Saw You classifieds," according to the school's Web site.
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.
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