Still Pushing The Edge After All These Years

SXSW The Austin Chronicle’s prominent new-music festival has featured performances by Everclear (right) and Hanson

‘Life in Hell’ ‘Simpsons’ creator Matt Groening broke through in 1987 with his cartoon in the L.A. Reader

‘Tales of the City’ Armistead Maupin’s series in Marin County’s Pacific Sun became a sensation as a PBS show

Launch pad Establishment types like Clinton aide Sidney Blumenthal rose from papers that folded into Boston’s Phoenix

Granddaddy Cofounded in 1955 by Norman Mailer, The Village Voice is where it all began

Savage Love Dan Savage’s column in Seattle’s Stranger spawned sex-in-the-city imitators

Free Known for its literary style, Chicago’s was the first major weekly with no cover price. Others have followed.

Tuned In No politics are too local for insider columns like Washington City Paper’s ‘Loose Lips’

Scoops Weeklies break stories dailies won’t: Phoenix New Times’ digging helped do in ex-governor Fife Symington