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Alt-Weekly Vet Cathy Seipp Dies at 49

By AAN Staff
march 22, 2007  08:39 am
Alt-Weekly Vet Cathy Seipp Dies at 49
The former columnist for Los Angeles CityBeat and the New York Press passed away yesterday afternoon, the Los Angeles Times reports. Despite being a non-smoker, Seipp was diagnosed five years ago with the lung cancer that ultimately killed her. Although she's probably best known for her National Review column and her Wall Street Journal op-eds, Seipp was a longtime writer for alt-weeklies on both coasts. She wrote the "Letter from L.A." column for the New York Press in the 1990s, and in 2003 she started writing the "Media Circus" column for Los Angeles CityBeat. The Advice Goddess Amy Alkon, a close friend of Seipp's, reports that a public funeral will be held at 10 am Friday, at L.A.'s Mt. Sinai Hollywood Hills (map). On Seipp's blog, her daughter notes that instead of flowers, she had requested that people make donations to the Humane Society or the Lung Cancer Alliance.
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