The Village Voice prints its final edition – with Bob Dylan on the cover

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: Kimi Wei <kimi () thewei com>
> Date: September 22, 2017 at 1:20:54 PM EDT
> To: David Farber <dave () farber net>
> Subject: The Village Voice prints its final edition – with Bob Dylan on the cover
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> https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/sep/21/village-voice-final-edition-new-york-bob-dylan?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+USA+-+Collections+2017&utm_term=244766&subid=11404366&CMP=GT_US_collection
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> The Village Voice prints its final edition – with Bob Dylan on the cover
>
> By mid-morning on Thursday many of the Voice’s famous red distribution boxes were empty, as New York’s beloved weekly 
> paper makes switch to online-only
>
> In the way that some things come back stronger once before they go away for good, that sentinel of downtown New York 
> bohemian life, the Village Voice, has published its last printed edition, with a heyday cover shot of Bob Dylan.
>
> Photographed in a salute, the image of Dylan was taken in January 1965, near the old offices of the Voice.
>
> The 176-page issue features a 50-page portfolio of journalistic luminaries who helped define the publication, 
> including Voice co-founder Ed Fancher, theater critic Michael Feingold and film critics J Hoberman and Amy Taubin.
>
> Michael Musto, the longtime nightlife columnist, marked the occasion with a return of his “La Dulce Musto” column.
>
> By mid-morning on Thursday, many of the publication’s distinctive red distribution boxes were empty, copies collected 
> up by souvenir hunters. In severing the Voice from its physical existence, owner and publisher Peter Barbey said the 
> 62-year old print publication had been “a public forum for ideas and a cultural touchstone for the progressive 
> thought and envelope-pushing aesthetics that defined New York”.
>
> In the final edition, a photo section celebrated the photographers and writers who “looked out at the rest of the 
> world from south of 14th Street”.
>
> The images include the infamous denizens of the downtown realm – William Burroughs (with sword), the Beastie Boys, 
> Madonna, Jack Kerouac – while cartoonist Steve Brodner reminisced: “This is journalism – authentic, fearless, 
> two-fisted, pure.”
>
> While many mourn the Voice’s physical passing, others have been less charitable. 
>
> Contrarian New York Post columnist Maureen Callahan wrote that the changes at the Voice and the sale of Rolling Stone 
> meant post-war baby boomers were finally releasing their “chokehold on American culture”.
>
> “So enough with the eulogies for Rolling Stone and the Village Voice, two relics demolished not by the internet but 
> their own narcissistic, congenital nostalgia,” Callahan crowed.
>
> What happens next for the Village Voice could represent a bellwether for the rest of the publishing industry looking 
> toward an all-digital future. Editor Stephen Mooallem said the roughly 500,000 pages of Voice archives would remain 
> for the time-being “a state-of-the-art analog experience.
>
> “The Voice may be bigger than print and ink or any owner, editor, medium, or era, but this paper belonged to New 
> York, and the people who have worked for it have served both the Voice and the city in exemplary fashion.”
>
>
>
> Kimi Wei
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