How the Village Voice and Other Alt-Weeklies Lost Their Voice in 2013

By: Scott Timberg | Aljazeera America

There was something else there, but you couldn't see it. There were notes coming from somewhere — maybe adding up to a melody — but you couldn't quite hear them. Growing up in and around this sprawling, elusive city in the 1970s and '80s, Lynell George would see things, hear things, that never showed up in the daily press.