![]() ![]() “So enough with the eulogies for Rolling Stone and the Village Voice, two relics demolished not by the internet but their own narcissistic, congenital nostalgia,” Callahan crowed. While many mourn the Voice’s physical passing, others have been less charitable.Ĭontrarian New York Post columnist Maureen Callahan wrote that the changes at the Voice and the sale of Rolling Stone meant post-war baby boomers were finally releasing their “chokehold on American culture”. The images include the infamous denizens of the downtown realm – William Burroughs (with sword), the Beastie Boys, Madonna, Jack Kerouac – while cartoonist Steve Brodner reminisced: “This is journalism – authentic, fearless, two-fisted, pure.” In the final edition, a photo section celebrated the photographers and writers who “looked out at the rest of the world from south of 14th Street”. In severing the Voice from its physical existence, owner and publisher Peter Barbey said the 62-year old print publication had been “a public forum for ideas and a cultural touchstone for the progressive thought and envelope-pushing aesthetics that defined New York”. Michael Musto, the longtime nightlife columnist, marked the occasion with a return of his “La Dulce Musto” column.īy mid-morning on Thursday, many of the publication’s distinctive red distribution boxes were empty, copies collected up by souvenir hunters. The 176-page issue features a 50-page portfolio of journalistic luminaries who helped define the publication, including Voice co-founder Ed Fancher, theater critic Michael Feingold and film critics J Hoberman and Amy Taubin. Photographed in a salute, the image of Dylan was taken in January 1965, near the old offices of the Voice. ![]()
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