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Hold Fast is the uncompromising story of Backpage.com, the world’s most scandalous website, and the rise and fall of alternative weekly newspapers nationwide. Over four decades, Michael Lacey and his business partner James Larkin built the largest, most influential company in alternative media—a colossal chain of muckraking newspapers that included The Village Voice, LA Weekly, Phoenix New Times, Dallas Observer, Miami New Times, and others. These alternative newspapers published writers who were fierce investigators, stylish storytellers, and astute cultural critics. These papers also publi ..read more

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For the record, we’re fine, and so are the family in Iowa. They had some power loss but that’s been resolved. I was in Omaha when this all started and left to head home at 3 pm. By that point, Mary, in Lincoln, had gone through three rounds of tornado sirens. The trip home was to take me about 65 minutes, heading southwest on I-80. Just a few minutes later, this happened along I-80: Incredible tornado intercept just now north of Lincoln Nebraska!! @ryanhallyall @SevereStudios pic.twitter.com/j8GAtPVObc — Nick Gorman (@NickGormanWX) April 26, 2024 The video is from the POV of someone heading ..read more

A searing, deeply personal account of enduring a brutal attempt on his life, thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him–from internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize-winner Salman Rushdie On the morning of 12 August 2022, Salman Rushdie was standing onstage at the Chautauqua Institution in upstate New York, preparing to give a lecture on the importance of keeping writers safe from harm, when a man in black–black clothes, black mask–rushed down the aisle towards him, wielding a knife. His first thought: So it’s you. Here you are. What followed was a horrific act of viol ..read more

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