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Stan Mack is an American cartoonist, illustrator and author best known for his observational comic strip Stan Mack's Real Life Funnies, which ran in The Village Voice for more than 20 years. He was an early pioneer of documentary cartooning and is the author of numerous graphic nonfiction books addressing a wide range of social and historical ...
The Westbrook Oil Field was discovered on March 5, 1921, when the Texas and Pacific Abrams No. 1 well was completed to a depth of 2498 feet. L.W. Sandusky and P.C. Coleman convinced the Underwriters Producing and Refining Company to drill a test well, which was spudded on February 8, 1920.
Wolf founded the Village Voice on October 26, 1955 with the novelist Norman Mailer and Edwin Fancher, a former truck driver who trained as a psychologist. [7] They started the newspaper with $10,000 and no journalism experience, with Fancher as the publisher, Wolf as the editor-in-chief, and Mailer as a silent partner who supplied most of the capital, following the success of The Naked and the ...
Wayne Barrett (July 11, 1945 – January 19, 2017) was an American journalist.He worked as an investigative reporter and senior editor for The Village Voice for 37 years, and was known as a leading investigative journalist focused on power and politics in the United States.
James Lewis Hoberman (born March 14, 1949) [1] [2] is an American film critic, journalist, [3] author and academic. He began working at The Village Voice in the 1970s, became a full-time staff writer in 1983, and was the newspaper's senior film critic from 1988 to 2012. [4]
Giddins speaking at an American Library Association conference in Chicago, 2009.. Gary Giddins (born 1948) is an American jazz critic and author. [1] He wrote for The Village Voice from 1973; [1] his "Weather Bird" column ended in 2003. [2]
[4] [5] Smith was hired by Village Voice co-founder Dan Wolf and continued to write for them until 1989. [6] During the Village Voice's early and formative years, his column, "Scenes", with its reporting on the emerging counterculture, became a part of the paper's groundbreaking new journalism. The column ran weekly for twenty years and became ...
In January 2009, The Village Voice, which had published his commentary and criticism for fifty years, announced that he had been laid off. [3] [28] He then went on to write for United Features, Jewish World Review, and The Wall Street Journal. [3] He joined the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank, as a senior fellow in February 2009. [29] [30]