That storied history will continue now that the 54-year-old publication is being acquired by Noisy Creek — the media company that bought alternative weeklies in Seattle and Portland, Oregon — The Stranger and the Portland Mercury.
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Darcel Rockett,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Aug. 2025
Susan Orlean’s memoir promises insight not only into her start at alt-weeklies, her journalism, and her brilliant narrative nonfiction works, but also provides a blueprint for how to live a creative life.
From pamphlets to periodicals to local newspapers, the printed news created this country.
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Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Jan. 2026
After the lawsuit was filed, the jail changed its mail policy, and softcover books as well as periodicals published by the nonprofit were accepted into the jail.
Metropolitan dailies, in particular, have suffered despite the growing urban population, with the slack taken up somewhat by the increase in suburban newspapers.
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David Wingrave,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
In this safe house, Etminan went through dailies on a 2020 MacBook Air hooked up to a widescreen TV.
At that time young adult novels were the place where there were books about female main characters who were feeling big emotions and experiencing love—romantic love and friend love—and navigating a world that felt familiar.
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Stephanie McNeal,
Glamour,
8 Jan. 2026
Every month was this parcel of books written by some of the most important names in fiction, and then all these new voices.
Conditions such as space adaptation syndrome — an ailment characterized by vomiting and vertigo that is experienced by many astronauts during their first hours in microgravity — only came into focus after years of research and revelations in academic journals.
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Jackie Wattles,
CNN Money,
8 Jan. 2026
Photos, Videos, Journals, and Scrapbooks While old photos, journals, handwritten notes, and other personal archives may not mean much to you at the time, check with family members to see if anyone wants to be the keeper of memories.
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