RIP Village Voice 1955-2017


"Without it, if you are a New Yorker of a certain age, chances are you would have never found your first apartment. Never discovered your favorite punk band, spouted your first post-Structuralist literary jargon, bought that unfortunate futon sofa, discovered Sam Shepard or charted the perfidies of New York’s elected officials. Never made your own hummus or known exactly what the performance artist Karen Finley did with yams that caused such an uproar over at the National Endowment for the Arts. The Village Voice, the left-leaning independent weekly New York City newspaper, announced on Tuesday that it will end print publication. The exact date of the last print edition has not yet been finalized, according to a spokeswoman. ..."
NY Times: After 62 Years and Many Battles, Village Voice Will End Print Publication
Esquire: Generations of Village Voice Writers Reflect on the Paper Leaving the Honor Boxes
NPR: New Yorkers Mourn End Of An Era As 'Village Voice' Ceases Print Edition
NPR: Former Village Voice Editors And Writers Remember Its Outsized Impact On Music
It Takes a Village: A ‘Village Voice’ Reading List
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Village Voice: The Shaggs, Music Downtown - Kyle Gann, The Voice Lays Off J Hoberman, John Wilcock: New York Years, 1954-1971 (Ethan Persoff and Scott Marshall), Love Goes to Buildings On Fire: Five Years in New York City That Changed Music Forever, The Essential Ellen Willis, Ocean of Sound - David Toop (1995), Tom Johnson - The Voice of New Music: New York City 1972–1982, 50 Years After Dylan Played Forest Hills, Al Kooper Recalls 1965's Electric Summer, St. Mark’s Place: It’s Party Time in the East Village!, Mark Alan Stamaty, Gem Spa, Village Voice NYC Albums , Jonas Mekas, J. Hoberman, The Quad Cinema's Facelift Caps Off a New Golden Age of NYC Cinema, Damn. - Kendrick Lamar (2017), Jeremiah Moss Was Here

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