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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

Tags: Editorial, Management, City Pages (Twin Cities), Twin Cities Reader, David Carr

David Carr: City Pages is 'A Great Paper'new

That's his take after picking up a copy this week, though he says he has "hurt feelings" about City Pages "running the Twin Cities Reader [a now-defunct AAN paper he used to edit] out of business." Carr, who also served as editor of Washington City Paper and is now a reporter for the New York Times, tells the Minnesota Monitor: "I share newspaper approaches with [Village Voice Media]. I've always been equal opportunity in terms of choosing opponents and choosing targets." He adds that VVM papers "in general are far superior to most weeklies, and they fund great journalism, pay a living wage, pay healthcare."

Minnesota Monitor | 05-17-2007 1:02 pm | Industry News

Tags: Editorial, Management, City Pages (Twin Cities), Village Voice Media Holdings, LLC, David Carr