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Voice's New Press Clips Columnist Promises She'll 'Keep on Rocking'new
After the Manhattan alt-weekly named Keach Hagey its new media columnist last week, it didn't take long for the NYC blogosphere to find her band, Fur Cups For Teeth, which Philadelphia City Paper has described as "part vacuum-pushing pep squad, part women's studies posse." But Hagey assures Gawker that her new responsibilities at the Voice will not be the demise of Fur Cups. "Nothing's gonna happen to the band," she says. "We're going to keep rocking!"
Gawker |
02-12-2007 1:54 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, The Village Voice
Keach Hagey Appointed Village Voice 'Press Clips' Columnistnew
Poynter Online |
02-06-2007 4:26 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, The Village Voice
Village Voice Film Critic J. Hoberman Joins Harvard Faculty
Village Voice Media Press Release |
02-06-2007 10:58 am |
Press Releases
Village Voice Reporter Named Jack Newfield Visiting Professornew
Tom Robbins is the second distinguished journalist to occupy the post at Hunter College, established to honor Newfield. Robbins, a former colleague of Newfield's at both the Voice and the Daily News, will teach a course entitled "Urban Investigative Reporting" and will also assist students in researching and writing a lengthy article or series of articles focused on an aspect of city life. "Whether tomorrow's journalists are writing online or on paper, we need more of them who understand and share Jack Newfield's passion for justice and the city he lived in," Robbins says in a press release.
Hunter College |
02-02-2007 2:22 pm |
Honors & Achievements
'What Happened to Our (Village) Voice?'new
That's the rhetorical question PopMatters asks in an article lamenting the "sad trajectory" of arts coverage at the paper since it was taken over by New Times. In a somewhat less-than-thorough investigation, the Web site turns to two former Voice music critics for answers. Robert Christgau says Michael Lacey is "a philistine who hates New York City” but admits that Village Voice Media's executive editor cares about writing; it's just not the kind of writing that Christgau does. Meanwhile, Eric Weisbard claims the new owners hate "what the Voice stood for," i.e., "the idea that you should write about pop music with the same depth and the same number of cultural references that you would talk about a novelist in the New York Review of Books."
PopMatters |
01-22-2007 3:10 pm |
Industry News
NY Times Spends 'Night Out' With Voice's Mustonew
Village Voice columnist and VH1 commentator Michael Musto plays the viola, still goes home to Bensonhurst for the holidays, and does a mean Diana Ross, reports the Times in a 'Night Out' profile of what the paper calls "the city’s most punny, raunchy and self-referential gossip columnist." Oh, and they also mention his new book, "La Dolce Musto," a compilation of two decades worth of the columnist's favorite "blind items, outings, hissy fits and scandals concerning everyone from Madonna to Anita Ekberg."
The New York Times |
01-16-2007 12:39 pm |
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Tags: Editorial, The Village Voice
Musto: I've Had Free Reign at The Village Voicenew
In an interview promoting his new book,
a collection from his long-running Voice column, Michael Musto says that in his "billions of years" at the paper, he has been censored only once, for a JonBenet joke that even he agrees was way off-base. "Otherwise, I've been given free reign to overdo, overemote, overstate and be overjoyed," the popular gossip columnist tells the New York Blade. "I’m extremely spoiled to have been coddled, nurtured, liberated and allowed to carry on like a free range chicken."
New York Blade |
01-09-2007 5:25 pm |
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Tags: The Village Voice
Pazz and Jop 'Undermined by Internet' Says NPRnew
The Morning Edition is the latest to weigh in on the battle for music-poll supremacy between The Village Voice's 32-year-old "world series for smarty-pants people," and Gawker Media's upstart Jackin' Pop, which was released Friday. NPR reports that several prominent critics, including former Voice contributor Ann Powers and The New Yorker's Sasha Frere-Jones, won't be voting in this year's Pazz and Jop, which will be released early next month.
National Public Radio |
01-08-2007 3:17 pm |
Industry News
Save Sparky: Tom Tomorrow Petitions Village Voicenew
The popular cartoonist, aka Dan Perkins, is asking his fans to sign a petition in support of returning his widely syndicated strip, "This Modern World," to the print edition of the Manhattan alt-weekly. Although the cartoon still appears online at villagevoice.com, Perkins reports via his blog that it was dropped from the paper "sometime in the last two or three months."
This Modern World |
01-05-2007 10:40 am |
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Tags: Editorial, The Village Voice
Village Voice Photographer's Work Featured in Private Gallery Shownew
Veteran photographer and frequent Voice contributor Fred McDarrah is currently displaying highlights from his life's work at the Steven Kasher Gallery, reports the Villager. The exhibit features 120 of McDarrah's iconic prints from the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, including portraits of downtown legends such as Allen Ginsberg (pictured), Andy Warhol, and Susan Sontag. "I remember every photograph, every single picture, I took in my entire life," says McDarrah, whose first job at the Voice was selling ads.
The Villager |
01-02-2007 2:02 pm |
Honors & Achievements
Tags: Editorial, The Village Voice
Koyen: David Blum's First 100 Days a Disappointmentnew
Jeff Koyen accuses the Village Voice's new editor of failing to reinvent the alt-weekly format in his first three months on the job. "I'm ashamed to admit that I was optimistic when Blum was hired to run the Village Voice," Koyen writes in the British daily Guardian. "Unfortunately, Blum is playing by the book." Koyen, who approves of the "cleaned house" that followed the Voice's acquisition by the New Times chain, formerly competed with the Manhattan alt-weekly when he worked for a number years at the New York Press, where he was editor from 2003 to 2005.
Guardian Unlimited |
12-22-2006 3:53 pm |
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Boston Phoenix's Camille Dodero to Join Village Voicenew
The Phoenix staff writer is leaving Beantown to become yet another fresh face at the Village Voice, reports the Boston Herald. "Anyone who knows Camille realizes that going to NYC has been a long-time goal. Her exit reminds us of what it means to be bittersweet: glad for her, sad for us," writes Peter Kadzis in an internal Phoenix email, republished by the Herald. Dodero is the second employee to jump from the Boston alt-weekly to Village Voice Media. Former managing editor Bill Jensen recently departed to oversee Web operations for VVM.
Boston Herald |
12-18-2006 11:52 am |
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Village Voice Releases Film-Crit Compendiumnew
Just in time for the gift-guide season, the venerable alt-weekly has released "The Village Voice Film Guide: 50 Years of Movies From Classics to Cult Hits," edited by former Voice film critic Dennis Lim. The anthology includes reviews from every era of the paper's storied history, and includes contributions by Jonas Mekas, Oliver Stone and J. Hoberman.
The Village Voice |
12-18-2006 11:04 am |
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AIDS Org Critiques Pfizer in Alt-Weekly Adsnew
The AIDS Healthcare Foundation has purchased full-page ads in this week's editions of The Village Voice and LA Weekly, alleging that Pfizer's marketing of Viagra encourages unsafe sex. The ads, which highlight the dangers of mixing the erectile-dysfunction treatment with methamphetamine, will also eventually be placed in publications in South Florida and San Francisco, according to the Associated Press.
AP via Houston Chronicle |
12-12-2006 12:01 pm |
Industry News
The Village Voice Grabs Three Golds in NYC Critics Round-Upnew
Voice art critic Jerry Saltz (pictured), dance critic Deborah Jowitt, and film critic J. Hoberman each took top honors in a poll of artists and industry insiders commissioned by Time Out New York and conducted by Samir Husni, chairman of the department of journalism at the University of Mississippi. Critics were rated in eight different categories; the Voice was the only New York publication to win three first-place awards.
Time Out New York |
12-11-2006 4:06 pm |
Honors & Achievements
