![]() The sale includes all the Voice’s assets, except for the Obie Awards for off-Broadway theater productions, which will be taken over by its co-producer, the American Theater Wing. Calle said he plans to begin with a handful of staffers and would add more as the publication re-establishes itself. ![]() “This is something that is so important historically, and I believe it is something that is going to be needed when New York begins to fully reopen next year,” Mr. Its print frequency might increase over time, he said. The price wasn’t disclosed.īrian Calle, the chief executive of Street Media and publisher of LA Weekly and its sister paper, Irvine Weekly, said he intends to begin publishing new content on the Village Voice website in January and will bring it back to print as a quarterly starting at the end of March. Street Media, a California investment group that owns LA Weekly, has acquired the Voice from Peter Barbey, an heir to the fortune behind fashion brands North Face and Timberland who bought the publication in 2015 but closed it just three years later. New York is back, The Voice is back, I’m back. It all makes sense, said the longtime Voice columnist Michael Musto, who has a byline in the return issue. ![]() The iconic New York alternative weekly, which closed in 2018 after more than half a century of chronicling the city’s cultural life, will return early next year with a new owner. New Yorkers may have noticed something strange in the last few days: copies of The Village Voice, fresh off the press and still free, on newsstands and in street boxes. ![]()
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