City Pages

sigh

This is pretty fucken sad lemme tell ya.

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What else is there to say? We’re sad as fuck. CP, born Sweet Potato, has employed hundreds of people over the last four decades; below you’ll find a farewell from the edit staffers who rearranged those Titanic deck chairs right up until the very end.

City Pages is dead. We had a good run..

I found my first apartment on its classifieds pages. My first job too as a barista in a Dunn Brothers location that no longer exists.

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With the closing, 30 people will lose their jobs. It adds Minneapolis-St. Paul to the growing list of U.S. cities with no more so-called “alternative” newspapers, which rose out of the 1960s counterculture scene and flourished through the 1990s, throwing sharp elbows in political coverage and spotting the edgiest ideas in arts.

Source: City Pages is closing, ending era of Twin Cities alternative weeklies – StarTribune.com

This fucken sucks

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