Shafer: A Eulogy for the Alt-Weekly

Posted Thursday, December 21, 2017 7:49 am

Jack Shafer | Politico

The obituarists issued last rites for Baltimore’s alternative weekly, City Paper, last month not long after they penned the same for the 62-year-old Village Voice. In 2015, they gave the Philadelphia City Paper its death notices, and before that the San Francisco Bay Guardian (2014) and the Boston Phoenix (2013).

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Shafer: A Eulogy for the Alt-Weekly

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