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15. Started reading The VV in 1967, and used to wait at the newsstand every week for delivery.

Fri Aug 31, 2018, 03:45 PM

Aug 2018

Carried a copy around with my books just about every day from Jr. High School until graduation. I don't think I ever missed a week until I reported for USAF Basic Training in August of 1972. Started buying it again when I got to tech school in Denver.

Saw many (sometimes massive) changes through the years...some good, some bad, but rarely wavered from my weekly fix. I got to enjoy around 40 years of Jules Feiffer, articles by Jean Shepherd, and used it as my main source of information about concerts, plays, and other cultural events in the area.

After they were taken over and made into a free weekly it seemed like everything really started falling apart, and it seemed that they lost a lot of the edginess that they had though the years.

They retained some excellent staff writers, but over the past several years I found myself checking their online version less and less.

Nonetheless, the Voice will be missed, and will always hold a special place in my own personal history.

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The Village Voice Is Shutting Down [View all] DonViejo Aug 2018 OP

CRAP DonCoquixote Aug 2018 #1

Damn...After losing Wayne Barrett, I thought, well, at least the Village Voice would go on hlthe2b Aug 2018 #2

Isn't it the same company that owns Westword? Emoji Guy Aug 2018 #3

Yeah... They've announced cutbacks, but to my knowledge, are not folding. hlthe2b Aug 2018 #4

Hope not. Emoji Guy Aug 2018 #7

The Village itself zentrum Aug 2018 #5

As an Urban Planner, let me say this: Cities are dynamic brooklynite Aug 2018 #8

This doesn't feel dynamic. zentrum Sep 2018 #31

Yet sometimes the change is organic, while others times the change is manufactured. LanternWaste Sep 2018 #35

What "mechanism of change" are you complaining about? brooklynite Sep 2018 #36

I was at the Bobst Library Thursday to see the Wojnarowicz exhibit lapucelle Sep 2018 #28

Yes. It's a loss of history itself. zentrum Sep 2018 #32

Damn LudwigPastorius Aug 2018 #6

yeah, that and the Lion's Head closing back in '96 NJCher Aug 2018 #12

Thanks for the read. LudwigPastorius Sep 2018 #22

I owe a lifetime debt to the Village Voice BamaRefugee Aug 2018 #9

Is that you..... SergeStorms Aug 2018 #11

hahaha not Mungo Jerry but i did move there in the summertime, when the weather is hot ;-) BamaRefugee Aug 2018 #13

I'm intensely curious. Duppers Sep 2018 #21

It's probably in here somewhere... lapucelle Sep 2018 #29

Wow...amazing story! Thanks for sharing NT Docreed2003 Sep 2018 #26

I have a guess.... YouKnowFred Sep 2018 #33

welcome to DU gopiscrap Sep 2018 #38

It was inevitable. SergeStorms Aug 2018 #10

Atlanta had the Great Speckled Bird, and it WAS NOT EASY being progressive Down South... BamaRefugee Aug 2018 #14

I certainly agree. SergeStorms Aug 2018 #17

I lived that, going to college in Alabama. BamaRefugee Aug 2018 #18

You were living on the edge. SergeStorms Sep 2018 #23

My favorite place to eat was Ollie's Bar B Q BamaRefugee Sep 2018 #24

Ollie's Barbecue is very famous, if I recall correctly, for a landmark civil rights case DonaldsRump Sep 2018 #25

Started reading The VV in 1967, and used to wait at the newsstand every week for delivery. SeattleVet Aug 2018 #15

I hate to hear this. nt Honeycombe8 Aug 2018 #16

Is this the same group that owns Phoenix New Times? JonLP24 Aug 2018 #19

That sucks! BigmanPigman Aug 2018 #20

Sob! bronxiteforever Sep 2018 #27

This is a tragedy - what a great paper. klook Sep 2018 #30

Kick! nt Guy Whitey Corngood Sep 2018 #34

Please forgive my ignorance, but Seeking Serenity Sep 2018 #37

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My older sis had a subscription tonekat Sep 2018 #39