To Sharon Jones, It’s Not Retro
Shepherd Express |
May 19, 2010
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During a time when most of the country’s prominent alternative weekly newspapers have been consolidated and streamlined by corporations, the Shepherd Express has beat the odds, remaining locally owned. The paper has emerged from its unlikely beginning as a satirical...
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