The original ownership group sold the Reader in 2007 to Creative Loafing, a small chain of alternative weeklies based in Atlanta.
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Robert Channick,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Jan. 2026
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.
Within two days, the Moy-Chin nuptials became national news, the sort of story that editors of small-town papers liked to pluck out of the big-city dailies and run alongside items about the oldest living person or the length of the Nile River.
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Charlotte Brooks,
Big Think,
13 Mar. 2026
The actors watched each others’ dailies and McEwen would sometimes sneak on set to watch Kidman in action.
With annuals like snapdragons, removing flower stalks delays the formation of seed production and the plants send out more shoots.
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Tom MacCubbin,
The Orlando Sentinel,
21 Mar. 2026
Newhall/Santa Clarita Towsley Canyon in Newhall, nestled in the Santa Susana Mountains just off the Golden State Freeway, and Placerita Canyon State Park, situated between the San Gabriel Mountains and Mojave Desert, are reliable spots to see California poppies and other common annuals.
Netflix’s new documentary about the early days of the Red Hot Chili Peppers and the influence of their founding guitarist, Hillel Slovak, uses an AI voiceover of the late musician reading through his personal journals.
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Cheyenne Roundtree,
Rolling Stone,
24 Mar. 2026
There’s hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of poems in my journals that come right after a sad story or a happy story or whatever.
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