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The New York Press
''New York Press'' was a free alternative weekly in New York City, which was published from 1988 to 2011. The ''Press'' strove to create a rivalry with the ''Village Voice''. ''Press'' editors claimed to have tried to hire away writer Nat Hentoff from the ''Voice''. Liz Trotta of ''The Washington Post'' compared the rivalry to a similar sniping between certain publications in the eighteenth-century British press, such as the ''Analytical Review'' and its self-styled nemesis, the '' Anti-Jacobin Review''. The founder, Russ Smith, was a conservative who wrote a long column called "Mugger" in every issue, but did not promote just a right-wing viewpoint in the publication. The paper's weekly circulation in 2006 topped 100,000, compared to about 250,000 for the ''Village Voice'', but this total fell to 20,000 by the end of the paper's run. The ''Press'' touted a Manhattan-focused, controlled distribution system while a good portion of the ''Village Voice''s circulation is outside t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alternative Weekly
An alternative newspaper is a type of newspaper that eschews comprehensive coverage of general news in favor of stylized reporting, opinionated reviews and columns, investigations into edgy topics and magazine-style feature stories highlighting local people and culture. Its news coverage is more locally focused, and their target audiences are younger than those of daily newspapers. Typically, alternative newspapers are published in tabloid format and printed on newsprint. Other names for such publications include alternative weekly, alternative newsweekly, and alt weekly, as the majority circulate on a weekly schedule. Most metropolitan areas of the United States and Canada are home to at least one alternative paper. These papers are generally found in such urban areas, although a few publish in smaller cities, in rural areas or exurban areas where they may be referred to as an alt monthly due to the less frequent publication schedule. Content Alternative papers have usuall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Caldwell (journalist)
Christopher Caldwell (born 1962) is an American journalist, and a former senior editor at '' The Weekly Standard'', as well as a regular contributor to the '' Financial Times'' and '' Slate''. He is a senior fellow at the Claremont Institute and contributing editor to the '' Claremont Review of Books''. His writing also frequently appears in '' The Wall Street Journal'', '' The New York Times'' (where he is a contributing editor to the paper's magazine), and '' The Washington Post''. He was also a regular contributor to '' The Atlantic Monthly'' and the '' New York Press'' and the assistant managing editor of '' The American Spectator. Early life and education Caldwell was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, and is a graduate of Harvard College, where he studied English literature. Career Caldwell's 2009 book '' Reflections on the Revolution in Europe'', which deals with increased Muslim immigration to Europe, received mixed reactions. '' The Economist'' newspaper called it "an impor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Monahan
William J. Monahan (born November 3, 1960) is an American screenwriter and novelist. His second produced screenplay was '' The Departed'', a film that earned him a Writers Guild of America Award and Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Writer and editor Monahan was born in Dorchester, Boston. He attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he studied Elizabethan and Jacobean drama. He moved to New York City and contributed to the alternative weekly newspaper '' New York Press'' and the magazines ''Talk'', ''Maxim'', and ''Spy''. In 1997 Monahan won a Pushcart Prize for his short story "A Relation of Various Accidents Observable in Some Animals Included in Vacuo". Monahan was an editor at ''Spy'' during the magazine's final years, where he would come in at the close of the monthly issue to rewrite articles and improve jokes. In 1999 ''Talk'' magazine debuted, and Monahan contributed a travelogue on Gloucester, Massachusetts, to the first issue. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Radosh
Daniel Radosh (born 23 March 1969) is an American journalist and blogger. Radosh is a senior writer for ''The Daily Show with Trevor Noah''. Previously, he was a staff writer for ''The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and'' a contributing editor at ''The Week.'' He writes occasionally for ''The New Yorker''. His writing has also appeared in ''Entertainment Weekly'', ''Esquire'', '' GQ'', '' Mademoiselle'', '' McSweeney's Quarterly Concern'', '' Might'', ''New York Magazine'', ''The New York Times'', ''Playboy'', ''Radar'', ''Salon'', ''Slate'', and other publications. From 2000 to 2001, he was a senior editor for ''Modern Humorist''. In the 1990s he was a writer and editor at '' Spy''. Radosh began his writing career at Youth Communication in 1985, where as a high school student he published more than a dozen stories in ''New Youth Connections'' (now ''YCteen''), a magazine by and for New York City teenagers. His blog, Radosh.net, was named one of the "top 25 blogs" by Time.com in 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ned Vizzini
Edison Price Vizzini (April 4, 1981 – December 19, 2013) was an American writer. He was the author of four books for young adults including '' It's Kind of a Funny Story'', which NPR named #56 of the "100 Best-Ever Teen Novels" and which is the basis of the film of the same name. Vizzini had depression, spending time in a psychiatric ward in his early 20s, and authoring several works about the illness. He was found dead in his native Brooklyn, New York after an apparent suicide from a fall, aged 32. Early life Vizzini grew up primarily in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City. He attended Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan, graduating in 1999. Vizzini's characters and situations are said to be based upon his time spent at Stuyvesant. Career Vizzini's first published work was an essay he submitted to the ''New York Press'', an alternative newspaper, about winning honorable mention at the 1996 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. As a freelance writer for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Counterculture
A counterculture is a culture whose values and norms of behavior differ substantially from those of mainstream society, sometimes diametrically opposed to mainstream cultural mores.Eric Donald Hirsch. ''The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy''. Houghton Mifflin. . (1993) p. 419. "Members of a cultural protest that began in the U.S. In the 1960s and Europe before fading in the 1970s... fundamentally a cultural rather than a political protest." A countercultural movement expresses the ethos and aspirations of a specific population during a well-defined era. When oppositional forces reach critical mass, countercultures can trigger dramatic cultural changes. Prominent examples of countercultures in the Western world include the Levellers (1645–1650), Bohemianism (1850–1910), the more fragmentary counterculture of the Beat Generation (1944–1964), followed by the globalized counterculture of the 1960s (1964–1974). Definition and characteristics John Milton Yinger origin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esotericist
Western esotericism, also known as esotericism, esoterism, and sometimes the Western mystery tradition, is a term scholars use to categorise a wide range of loosely related ideas and movements that developed within Western society. These ideas and currents are united since they are largely distinct both from orthodox Judeo-Christian religion and Enlightenment rationalism. Esotericism has pervaded various forms of Western philosophy, religion, pseudoscience, art, literature, and music—and continues to influence intellectual ideas and popular culture. The idea of grouping a wide range of Western traditions and philosophies together under the term ''esotericism'' developed in Europe during the late seventeenth century. Various academics have debated various definitions of Western esotericism. One view adopts a definition from certain esotericist schools of thought themselves, treating "esotericism" as a perennial hidden inner tradition. A second perspective sees esotericism as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ordo Templi Orientis
Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.; ) is an occult initiatory organization founded at the beginning of the 20th century. The origins of the O.T.O. can be traced back to the German-speaking occultists Carl Kellner, Heinrich Klein, Franz Hartmann and Theodor Reuss. Later, the O.T.O. was significantly shaped by the English author and occultist Aleister Crowley. After Crowley's death in 1947, four main branches of the O.T.O. have claimed exclusive descent from the original organization and primacy over the other ones. The most important and visible of these is the Caliphate O.T.O., incorporated by Crowley's student Grady McMurtry in 1979. Originally it was intended to be modeled after and associated with European Freemasonry,Sabazius X° and AMT IX°History of Ordo Templi Orientis Retrieved June 13, 2006. such as Masonic Templar organizations, but under the leadership of Aleister Crowley, O.T.O. was reorganized around Crowley's Thelema as its central religious principle. Similar to ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weiser Books
Red Wheel Weiser Conari, also known in different periods in its history as RedWheel/Weiser, LLC and Samuel Weiser, Inc., is a book publisher with three imprints: Red Wheel, Weiser Books and Conari Books. It is America's second-largest publisher of occult and New Age books, behind Llewellyn Worldwide, and is also one of the oldest American publishers to concentrate exclusively on that genre. It publishes on average 60-75 new titles per year and maintains a large backlist, partly of books that it originally published, and partly of older public domain rare occult books. Imprints Weiser Books This main imprint is also the oldest. It was founded as ''Samuel Weiser, Inc.'' in 1956, a time when few other publishers were willing to tackle occult subjects, and was originally an offshoot of the New York City retailer, Weiser Antiquarian Books. This imprint publishes the backlist and continues to acquire books on occultism, astrology, esoteric subjects, Eastern religions, Wicca and r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Secret History Of Comic Book Heroes
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with pronouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of pronoun '' thee'') when followed by a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Lukas (journalist)
Paul Lukas (born March 21, 1964) is an American journalist, author, and the founding editor of ''Uni Watch,'' a blog devoted to uniform design. Lukas has been called "sports journalism's foremost uniform reporter,” “a minutiae fetishist,” and a “professional geek." As a journalist he helped legitimize broader news coverage of sports uniform design with his work appearing in '' The New York Times'', '' GQ'', ''Fortune'', ''Gourmet'', ''Saveur'', '' The Wall Street Journal'', '' ESPN The Magazine'','' Sports Illustrated'', ''Spin'', ''Glamour'', '' The New Republic'', ''The Financial Times,'' and '' InsideHook.'' Lukas also authored a book about the intricate design of consumer products and services. Uni Watch The first Uni Watch column ran on May 26, 1999, in the '' Village Voice'' and discussed baseball's evolving uniform combinations. In 2003 the column moved from the ''Village Voice'' to Slate.com. From 2004 to 2019, Uni Watch ran as a regular column on ESPN.com and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dirty Sanchez (sexual Act)
Coprophilia (from Greek κόπρος, ''kópros'' 'excrement' and φιλία, ''philía'' 'liking, fondness'), also called scatophilia or scat ( Greek: σκατά, ''skatá'' ' feces'), is the paraphilia involving sexual arousal and pleasure from feces. Research In the '' Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders'' (DSM), published by the American Psychiatric Association, it is classified under 302.89— Paraphilia NOS (Not Otherwise Specified) and has no diagnostic criteria other than a general statement about paraphilias that says "the diagnosis is made if the behavior, sexual urges, or fantasies cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning". Furthermore, the DSM-IV-TR notes, "Fantasies, behaviors, or objects are paraphilic only when they lead to clinically significant distress or impairment (e.g. are obligatory, result in sexual dysfunction, require participation of nonconsenting indiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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