Friday, July 23, 2010

New look, name for 'The Villager'



Per the paper's editorial this week:

You might have noticed something different about the newspaper you are holding in your hands. For starters, it has a different name on the front page — and that name is in “eco green,” not blue.

Starting this week, East Villagers and Lower East Siders who have enjoyed reading The Villager over the years now have a paper they can call their own. It’s called the East Villager and Lower East Sider, and it will offer the best of what The Villager brings — but with an increased focus on Downtown’s vibrant East Side
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In addition, each week, the paper will feature a page of Clayton Patterson's vast LES archives.

If you don't pick up a hard copy around the neighbor, then you can check out their new website.... and new digital flipbook.

Congrats to Lincoln Anderson and his crew... as always, I look forward to reading the paper each week...

8 comments:

  1. I love love love The Villager. (OK, The EAST Villager.) Even when the writing is so-so or the reporting is a little half-finished, the paper always seems to have passion and interest and quirk, so yay. Community newspapers are such a treasure in general (when I lived in SF when dinosaurs roamed the earth, I loved the Noe Valley voice) -- they help make a big city feel like a small town.

    The Clayton Patterson page sounds like a great addition.

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  2. Thanks, Marjorie. I've always liked The Villager. Glad to see them retrenching in the face on new hyperlocal news competition ...(the NYU Local, for instance)...

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  3. Excellent. A more appropriate and accurate name. I always enjoy picking up a copy and reading the local stories. Sure, the quality varies, but hard to find that kind of local coverage elsewhere.

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  4. I noticed when I picked up my copy yesterday.

    Truly, our very own paper! We've arrived, neighborhood!

    Note: The Villager has a new publication date.

    http://eastvillage.neighborhoodr.com/post/846380901/fyi-the-villager-has-a-new-publication-date

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  5. I bet they changed the name to go along with getting free intern/help from the NYU/NY Times project..just sayin..

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  6. Actually, there used to be a local paper called the East Villager, published from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. It was run by a defrocke Jesuit priest named Jack Scully, who also had a thrift store called Everything for Everybody, first on Avenue B near 11th Street, then on 3rd and B. I hope someone at the new East Villager will do an article about their predecessor, and have the grace to acknowledge that they were not the first.

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