''Tuesday's Child'' was a short-lived

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''. Ho ...

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published in

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, in 1969–1970. Self-described on its masthead as "An ecumenical, educational newspaper for the Los Angeles occult & underground," it was founded by ''

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'' reporter Jerry Applebaum, Alex Apostolides, and a group of ''Freep'' staffers who left ''en masse'' after disagreements with Art Kunkin to found their own paper. ''Tuesday's Child'' was edited by

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Overview

Along with the usual underground paper staples of drugs,

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, and

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radical politics, ''Tuesday's Child'' devoted a good deal of space to the

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, with a number of issues printing arcane and obscure material by the occultist

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. The paper "is also notable for its decidedly

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stance and heady admixture of sex, politics, and mysticism. Its pages often feature first-hand reportage of happenings in the Greater L.A. queer community ('GAY POWER STUNS HOLLYWOOD', Volume 1, Issue 5) as well as copious inches to kinky classifieds, personals, and erotic horoscopes." Also part of the founding group was "a bunch of angry

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" who published "

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poetry" in the paper.Leib, Rebecca
"The story of how in the wake of the Manson murders, a bunch of local beat poets founded a not-so-family-friendly newspaper with a Satanic inclination,"
Los Angeleno (July 3, 2020). Never achieving the success or circulation of its crosstown rival, the ''Free Press'', ''Tuesday's Child'' quickly attained a degree of notoriety in and out of the underground with its coverage of the

Charles Manson Charles Milles Manson (; November 12, 1934 – November 19, 2017) was an American criminal, cult leader, and musician who led the Manson Family, a cult based in California in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Some cult members committed a Manson ...

case. One issue featured an image of a crucified Charles Manson on the cover, and another issue had a photograph of Manson on the cover proclaiming him, "Man of the Year." Peck, Abe. ''Uncovering the Sixties'' (Pantheon, 1985), p. 227.

Publication history

The first issue of ''Tuesday's Child'' was published on November 11, 1969, and published weekly (later biweekly) from an office in

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in a tabloid format, selling for 25 cents. The paper ceased publication in April 1970, and Jerry Applebaum went north and joined the ''

Berkeley Tribe The ''Berkeley Tribe'' was a counterculture weekly underground newspaper published in Berkeley, California, from 1969 to 1972. It was formed after a staff dispute with publisher Max Scherr and split the nationally known ''Berkeley Barb'' into ...

'' until it closed in 1972.

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"Tuesday's Child" by Micah Nathan.
''The Paris Review'' Daily, October 29, 2015. Retrieved March 22, 2019. * Mitch Anzuoni interviewed by M. Elizabeth Scott
"Cx72 Interview: Inpatient Press on Tuesday's Child,"
''Cixous72'' (December 2, 2020). {{Italic title Alternative weekly newspapers published in the United States Biweekly newspapers published in the United States Defunct newspapers published in California Newspapers published in Greater Los Angeles Publications disestablished in 1970 Newspapers established in 1969 Underground press

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