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- noun Plural form of
alt-weekly .
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Among urban alt-weeklies, The Stranger has a certain degree of national prominence, owing to the fact that its current editorial director and former editor-in-chief is the well-known "Savage Love" columnist and LGBT activist Dan Savage.
The Stranger Remixes Palin's Gunsight 'Surveyor's Marks' Map Jason Linkins 2011
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• Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder is urging fans to write the editors of Village Voice Media newspapers and other alt-weeklies and ask them to bring back comics like This Modern World. (via The Daily Cartoonist) • The Business Insider has photos of disused newspaper boxes that provide a grim snapshot of the state of the industry.
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Related: I've rambled on about alt-weeklies and incuriosity in the past.
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Yet as daily newspapers and alt-weeklies alike cut many cartoon features -- or it simply becomes less financially viable for some cartoonists to turn to their local paper for a paycheck -- Comic Riffs wonders whether the "favorite son" or "favorite daughter" cartoonist, the fine-line laureate, is becoming an endangered species.
From Pekar to Callahan: Why a town's 'favorite son' cartoonist is good for the civic soul 2010
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For alt-weeklies, it hasn't been enough to just acknowledge that print media is dying and then build a Web site.
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Like indie rock, alt-weeklies always seemed like an unshakable bastion of uncorrupted cool in a world of over-commercialized blandness and a fundamental component of an ill-spent adolescence.
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Finally, in case you thought I was just stuck on alt-weeklies, my friend just showed me this trailer and it kind of made my mind explode.
Links Round-Up 2009
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Predictably, he makes most of those critics, who mostly toil for obscure web sites or alt-weeklies, look like know-nothing wannabes.
Joel Keller: Jamie Kennedy Strikes Back at his Critics in Self-Indulgent Heckler 2008
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Similarly, Robert Wilonsky for alt-weeklies coast to coast: "Absolutely it goes on too long, clocking in at 144 minutes, and absolutely half of the damned thing makes no sense at all, but beneath all the gimmicks and gadgets ... is an actor who brings to Bond all the things he's lacked since Sean Connery fought the Cold War in a toupee."
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As for the alt-weeklies, that sort of makes my point.
What if they didn’t give a party and nobody cared? « BuzzMachine 2008
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