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Tag Archives: city squeeze
“Alternatively Yours”: City Paper founder Russ Smith profiled in Johns Hopkins Magazine
While reading Rafael Alvarez’s Crabtown, USA, I came across the chapter on his early days at City Squeeze, the self-published tabloid founded in 1977 by Johns Hopkins grads Russ Smith and Alan Hirsch, which became the City Paper in 1978. As Alvarez observed, the … Continue reading
Posted in 1970s, 1980s, Baltimorons, Media, Uncategorized
Tagged baltimore sun, city paper, city squeeze, johns hopkins university, rafael alvarez, russ smith
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What is an Alt-Weekly?
“…these covers not only provide a survey of the history of City Paper, they also scan as a thumbnail history of Baltimore, at least through the alt-weekly lens. ” Continue reading
Posted in 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, Decades, Entertainment, Media, Music
Tagged alt weeklies, baltimore city paper, city squeeze, covers, lee gardner
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