LA Weekly - Citizendia

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Type	Alternative weekly
Format	Tabloid

Owner	Village Voice Media
Publisher	Beth Sestanovich
Editor	Laurie Ochoa
Founded	1978
Headquarters	6715 Sunset Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90028 United States
Circulation	208,548 ^[1]

Website: laweekly.com

LA Weekly is a free weekly tabloid-sized newspaper (a so-called "alternative weekly") in Los Angeles, California. An alternative newspaper is a type of Newspaper that eschews comprehensive coverage of general news in favor of opinionated Reviews and columns A tabloid is a Newspaper industry term which refers to a smaller newspaper format per spread to a weekly or semi-weekly alternative newspaper that focuses on local-interest Year 1978 ( MCMLXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1978 Gregorian calendar) Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the This is a list of the daily Newspapers in the World by average circulation A weekly newspaper is a publication that is published on a non-daily schedule - usually once a week although twice-a-week papers are also common A tabloid is a Newspaper industry term which refers to a smaller newspaper format per spread to a weekly or semi-weekly alternative newspaper that focuses on local-interest A newspaper is a written Publication containing News, information and Advertising, usually printed on low-cost paper called Newsprint. An alternative newspaper is a type of Newspaper that eschews comprehensive coverage of general news in favor of opinionated Reviews and columns Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West It was founded in 1978 by Jay Levin. Year 1978 ( MCMLXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1978 Gregorian calendar) It is owned by Village Voice Media (formerly New Times Media), the parent company of other major weeklies such as the New York City's Village Voice, San Francisco's SF Weekly, and the OC Weekly of Orange County, California. The New Times Media corporation was a national publisher of Alternative weekly newspapers The City of New York This article is about a New York newspaper For the Ottawa Hills Ohio magazine see The Village Voice of Ottawa Hills. The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city The SF Weekly is a free Alternative weekly Newspaper in San Francisco California. OC Weekly, a sister publication of both LA Weekly and The Village Voice, is a free weekly paper (an Alternative weekly Orange County is a county in Southern California, United States. It is distributed every Thursday.

According to http://www.laweekly.com/ "LA Weekly has been the premier source for award-winning coverage of Los Angeles music, arts, film, theater, culture, concerts, events, . . . " The LA Weekly also recognizes outstanding small theatre productions (99 seats or less) in Los Angeles, with their annual LA Weekly Theater Awards, established in 1979. ^[2]

A major source of financial support for the LA Weekly, as for many alternative weeklies, is advertising by "adult" services, such as phone sex providers, escort services and other sex workers, and strip clubs. Phone sex is a type of Virtual sex that refers to sexually explicit conversation between two or more persons via telephone especially when at least one of the participants A call girl or escort is a Sex worker who (unlike a street walker) is not visible to the general public A sex worker is a person who works in the Sex industry. Sex workers may be employed as prostitutes strippers go-go dancers burlesque performers escorts dominatrices A strip club is a Nightclub or bar that offers Striptease (the erotic removal of a performer's clothing and possibly other related services such as

Some of its most famous writers are Pulitzer Prize winning food writer Jonathan Gold, classical music writer Alan Rich, and Nikki Finke, who covers the entertainment industry. The Pulitzer Prize, ˈpʊlɨtsɚ PULL-it-sər is an American award regarded as the highest national honor in Newspaper journalism, Jonathan Gold is a food critic who currently writes for LA Weekly and Gourmet magazine. Alan Rich (born 1924 in Brookline, Massachusetts) is an American Music critic who currently writes for Bloomberg News. Nikki Jean Finke (born 1953 is a American Journalist and Blogger who writes a Hollywood and media business column for LA Weekly and It is also known for well-written film criticism: The New York Times' Manohla Dargis was the film editor at the Weekly before she moved first to the The Los Angeles Times and then The New York Times; while the Weekly retains articulate critics such as Ella Taylor. Manohla Dargis (born April 1961 is one of the chief Film critics for The New York Times. The Los Angeles Times (also known as the LA Times) is a daily Newspaper published in Los Angeles California and distributed Ella Taylor is a Film critic for the LA Weekly, an alternative newspaper based in Los Angeles.

References

^ LA Weekly. Association of Alternative Newsweeklies. The Association of Alternative Newsweeklies (AAN is the trade association of Alternative weekly newspapers in North America. Retrieved on 2007-02-23. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1455 - Traditional date for the publication of the Gutenberg Bible, the first Western Book printed from Movable
^ Awards listing at TCG online

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