Village Voice Media being acquired by New Times very soon

Maybe we started ILM as one of many performance benchmark tools/guttersnipe filters we ultimately plan on licensing on a B2B basis for a host of workplace functions. Coming soon: I love TacosTM,I love editing videoTM, I love scalping ticketsTM.

cc:Everyone who's fired and gonna be fired

don't search for the momus medical advice column then, either.

ARTS EDITOR. THE
posted 06/23/2006
Arts Editor. The Washington City Paper needs an arts editor to help us rethink our award-winning arts section from the ground up. We’re looking for someone who’s addled by pop culture, who’s equally comfortable with brows high and low, who can effortlessly absorb our editorial sensibility (hint: Start working on your puns now). You’ll develop and nurture a stable of freelancers and channel the efforts of our own staffers. Your ability to direct and edit coverage across boundaries must be unsurpassed­-we need someone who’s conversant about Francis Picabia and Park Chan-wook and can glimpse the eternal in freak folk and Mamet. The ideal candidate will astonish us every week. Send a cover letter and resume to: Arts Editor, Washington City Paper, 2390 Champlain St. NW, Washington, DC 20009; artseditor@washingtoncitypaper.

"interminable," i think they meant

Your name ain't Tom Ewing.

http://www.mikedoughty.com/blog/

"I've snarked at him plenty, but ultimately much respect.

Funny that my old alma mater, the NYPress, has been able to maintain
its pose--that of the drunken self-destructor--longer than the Voice's progressive-avenger pose. Not that the Press is vital in the least anymore. Both papers lost the people that justified/created those personas years ago.

New York is the city of Time Out. I never would've thought so when it debuted. It seemed so laughably gee-whiz, I thought they'd fold in a month. But New York is like that now. (I really, really don't want to be the "I miss the rats on Rivington Street" guy, OK?) The children move here for fantasies of Sex and the City, expensive shoes and bottle-service clubs, not squats and art and rock and roll.

And I, and I think everybody else, goes looking for their drunken self-destructors and progressive avengers out in the blogosphere. I pass the street corner boxes that distribute the Voice and the Press, and man, they look sad. Moribund."

How nice that his fantasies are more valid, apparently.

Is there anything genuinely good on the rise in Brooklyn? The Rail?

They're more egalitarian, at least.

Not that I like the Soul Coughing guy much, but I don't see much ugliness in that bit. Mostly just resignation to the fact that the city's changed.

Hee hee hee.

I feel like the point of Goldmine was less about the particular genre of music and more about aging. Maybe that's too optimistic though.

i need to see VG again, i liked it at the time but felt it was only 75% successful (that citizen kane rip thing was not so good). SAFE pwns pretty much everything else he ever did, except maybe the Karen Carpenter-as-doll opus.

2006-09-05: Reports of My Dismissal Have Been Reasonably Accurate

On August 31, I was terminated by the new owners of The Village Voice along with four other senior editors, two gifted designers, and half of the two-person photo department. The mass layoff was characterized as a "restructuring," but I was fired "for taste." Because our union long ago anticipated the possibility of this kind of drastic overhaul, a contractually mandated severance arrangement will give me some time to get my economic future in order. But the specifics of that future probably won't be clear for a while.

The Voice changed a lot over the 37 years I wrote there and 32 years I was employed there. I haven't approved of all those changes, especially over the past decade. But for most of that time, with our unionization when Rupert Murdoch purchased the paper in 1977 a turning point, the Voice paid me to write well. My old bosses always understood that constructing a well-informed essay takes time, and that sorting, grading, and saying something honest and original about an incomprehensible plethora of records takes forever. I am grateful for the support my editors gave me, although I certainly believe I gave them surplus value back. But how my worklife is to proceed remains to be seen. I'll be letting you know in this space when I know myself.

Let me take this opportunity to say how very grateful I am, first simply for the interest all the visitors to this site have taken in my work, but especially for the labor volunteered by a few. Tom Hull's contribution is of course inestimable. The condolence notes Tom has forwarded to me have been much appreciated. I'll be OK. Like they say, it's too late to stop now. Or was that can't stop won't stop? Either way, both ways, I'll be in touch, and I'll be listening.