Now the lodestar is both nowhere and everywhere.įollow The New York Times Opinion section on Facebook and Twitter. The Voice was once a lodestar to freaks and geeks everywhere. The internet flattened “alternative culture” - first Napster, and now Spotify, allowed obscure music to bypass the critics Netflix and Amazon made experimental film accessible without your needing to read about it in a Hoberman review. Saline justices convene in Village JPs meet at Ouachita Activities Building. Board to receive final ad-hoc report Friday Committee reaches agreements for land deeds, access and other needs. Hearing from the past planning for future: GAC Several new members introduced. The Voice - and New York - was a beacon for misfits, and I was one of them. Home - Hot Springs Village Voice - Hot Springs Village, AR. Doug Simmons would get it at the newsstand in Omaha, when he was in high school, long before becoming its music editor and rising to be its managing editor, then, briefly, its acting executive editor. Truscott IV would get it at West Point, where he was a cadet, before becoming one of the paper’s staff writers. Your source for Philadelphia and South Jersey’s breaking news, sports, entertainment, business, things to do, events, culture, and more from. There are now pockets of creativity in parts of the city, mainly in Brooklyn, but even that borough has become more and more gentrified.īefore the internet, and before the commercialization of New York, many of The Voice’s writers and editors would talk about how they subscribed to the paper in their faraway towns: Lucian K. The night life I had come there to partake in became sanitized by bottle service and Wall Street money. The city had ceased to be affordable - and more important, interesting. It was a dream job - I had an amount of creative freedom and a filing schedule (weekly) that now seems extravagant and luxurious.īut with every passing year, the New York I knew and loved was changing, and eventually, like many others, I left. After I interned, I started as a fact checker and became a columnist, writing “Fly Life” and “Club Crawl,” two weekly columns about New York night life.
The place was filled with characters, and I loved every one of them, even as I was terrified of them.
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