Does your city have a free press that tells about concerts, movie reviews, art opening, restaurants, etc. in your city or do you know of any you regularly read?
For Austin there's the AustinChronicle.
For Dallas there's the DallasObserver.
The NYC area has the BrooklynRail.
Southwest Michigan has this: http://revuewm.com/
It is a great publication that comes out once a month. Most bars, music stores, and restaurants carry the print version so it is easy to find.
Is The Village Voice still free in those boxes in NYC? Haven't looked for it in ages.
Or The Onion?
Oh, in Westchester County there's something called More Sugar that's all ads and articles about area concerts.
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Washington City Paper, in the D.C area is a weekly that has a calendar of events and concerts.http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/
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We used to have the Boston Phoenix, but it shut down a few years ago. I get most of my info these days via e-mail and reading PE.
Madison has Isthmus, a weekly free alternative paper and Milwaukee has Shepherd Express.
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Reno, Nevada has the Reno News & Review, a free weekly paper. It is combined with sister papers in Chico, California and Sacramento, California here:
Newsreview.com
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Atlanta has: Creative Loafing.....haven't picked it up in years though.
The Jersey Shore used to have: The Aquarian (not sure if it still exists as I don't live there anymore)
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In Connecticut, we have CTNOW http://www.ctnow.com
Page 2 - 'Concert Calendar'
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Okay, thanks. The more the merrier. You never know when you might visit some of these areas and these type papers are good to know about in catching a concert or museum show.
Portland has Willamette Week and The Mercury.
They're both weeklies, both cover many of the same events, and are both dominated by hipsters so they tend to miss many of the events I might find interesting. The Willamette Week is older, more established, and has become the de facto Portland Democratic paper (The Oregonian is moderate Republican). It generally does more political reporting, and I usually find it better written and more interesting.
The Mercury is worse for annoying hipsterism. Richard Meltzer, a Portland character and an old-time rock critic, Beat poet, and lyricist for Blue Oyster Cult, once described it perfectly. He said, "Ya know what's the problem with The Mercury? They don't know how to tell a joke, that's what the problem with The Mercury is. You know how to tell a joke, right? First you do the set-up, then you do the punchline. That's how you tell a joke. But The Mercury? They just give you the punchline. And then they keep riffin' on it. That's not the way you tell a joke. Am I right?" And he was.
We've got the Scene here in Cleveland, but I felt out of the habit of reading it regularly ages ago.
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