AAN News
Former City Pages Editor Looks Back at 1980s Alt-Weekly Scenenew
In a piece for Minneapolis Observer Quarterly, Craig Cox weaves a review of David Carr's The Night of the Gun with personal anecdotes about Carr (a former editor for the now-defunct Twin Cities Reader, City Pages' crosstown rival) and the Twin Cities alt-weekly scene of the 1980s. "Once you were accepted into the club as a freelancer or -- dream of dreams -- a staffer at one of the two local alternative weeklies, you were plugged into the local pop culture scene in a way no one else was," Cox writes. "You didn't have to be high or narcissistic back then to feel good about working six days a week, every week (as we did at City Pages) for three or four hundred bucks. It was kind of an exclusive fraternity."
Minneapolis Observer Quarterly |
09-25-2008 11:25 am |
Industry News
Erstwhile AANies Elected Mayor in Minneapolis and Raleigh
The path between journalism and
politics is well worn, and now two
pols with alt-press connections have
taken over City Halls. R.T. Rybak,
erstwhile publisher of the defunct
Twin Cities Reader, was elected
mayor of Minneapolis, and Charles
Meeker, brother of Willamette
Week publisher Richard Meeker
and
a former Independent Weekly
shareholder, seized the reins in Raleigh,
N.C. Not since former Pacific Sun
reporter Barbara Boxer was
elected to the
U.S. Senate have AANies made such
political hay.
(FULL STORY)
AAN Staff |
11-26-2001 4:30 pm |
Industry News
