The Village Voice Is Shutting Down

[NJCher]

12. yeah, that and the Lion's Head closing back in '96

I used to go there and talk to the writers from the Village Voice, Nat Hentoff being one of them. Of course, Nat is now dead having passed a year or so ago at 92, I think.

Here's a quote from a NY Times article about The Lion's Head:

The bar was an especially powerful magnet for writers and for those who toiled at newspapers like The Village Voice, mere yards away in the Head’s early years. Writing is “the loneliest profession,” Mr. McEvoy said. “You have this built-up thing where you start working early in the morning. By about 3 o’clock, you want to scream. That’s when people used to descend on the Lion’s Head in the afternoon.”
“We had too much fun,” he said. “Every day, you would laugh in that place.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/05/nyregion/05nyc.html

I used to get all my boyfriends there. I can think of three just off the top of my head. When one relationship was over, I'd just stop back and pick up a new one. Pretty good quality of men there, or so I thought at the time.

At least there will be archives to console us.