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unusual facts about alternative weekly



Alan Webber

From 1978 through 1980 Webber was editor of the Willamette Week, an alternative weekly newspaper based in Portland.

Excepter

The Village Voice alt-weekly has mentioned the subject of the band's attire, with blogger and (former) Voice writer, Nick Sylvester referring to them as having "ousted Animal Collective as the Village People of Brooklyn Noise".

Metro Santa Cruz

Locally based in Santa Cruz, the alternative weekly is owned by Metro Newspapers, a company started by UC Santa Cruz graduate and former Santa Cruz publisher Dan Pulcrano.

Michael Gartner

Gartner is also chairman of Raccoon Baseball, Inc., which has owned the Iowa Cubs baseball team since 1999, and is co-owner of Big Green Umbrella Media, which publishes the Cityview alternative weekly newspaper in Des Moines.

Number One Cup

He was interviewed by the alternative weekly magazine New City in 1993, and told the interviewer that he was planning to see a concert featuring Unrest, Gastr Del Sol, and Stereolab in Chicago; after the story was published, guitarist Pat O'Connell and drummer Michael Lenzi both called Cohen, and the three decided to form a band together.

Santa Cruz Weekly

Locally based in Santa Cruz, the alternative weekly is owned by Metro Newspapers, a company started by former Santa Cruz publisher Dan Pulcrano.


see also

Citybeat

LA CityBeat, an defunct alternative weekly newspaper in Los Angeles, California

Garrett Epps

After graduation from Harvard, he was a cofounder of The Richmond Mercury, a short-lived alternative weekly whose alumni include Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Frank Rich and Glenn Frankel.

JFP

Jackson Free Press, an alternative weekly newspaper in Jackson, Mississippi

Peter Ladner

He later worked at newspapers on Vancouver Island and was editor of the Victoria alternative weekly Monday Magazine from 1981 to 1986.

Richard Speer

Since 2002 Speer has been visual arts critic at Willamette Week, a Portland, Oregon alternative weekly newspaper that won the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting in 2005.