Philadelphia Weekly

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The 2007-02-21 front page of Philadelphia Weekly
Type	Alternative weekly
Format	Tabloid

Owner	Review Publishing
Editor	Tim Whitaker
Founded	1971
Headquarters	1500 Sansom St., 3rd Floor Philadelphia, PA 19102 United States
Circulation	100,893^[1]

Website: philadelphiaweekly.com

Philadelphia Weekly (PW), is a free alternative newspaper in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, published every Wednesday.

The paper was founded as the Welcomat in 1971 as a sister publication to the South Philadelphia Press. In 1995, the name was changed to Philadelphia Weekly.

The paper features local and national politics, as well extensive coverage of the Arts - film, theater, visual arts, and music.

Its main competitor is Philadelphia City Paper, a similarly-themed free weekly publication.

1 Weekly Columns
2 Art of Darkness
3 On The Radar
4 The Angry Grammarian
- 4.1 The Trouble With Spikol
- 4.2 Savage Love
5 See also
6 References
7 External links

[edit] Weekly Columns

[edit] Art of Darkness

Written by Mexican wrestler and art professor El Gatito (pictured wearing a wrestling mask, stroking his chin and smoking a pipe), this column combines serious art critiicism with wrestling jargon.

[edit] On The Radar

Written since 2005 by English immigrant Steven Wells (who formerly wrote for NME and currently writes for Guardian Unlimited, Bizarre, 90 and FourFourTwo), OtR seldom keeps to its "what's coming up" brief and instead wanders off into explosive tirades about evolution, atheism, aristocracy, rugby league and other entirely unrelated topics.

[edit] The Angry Grammarian

A language column written by PW's copy editor, Jeff Barg.

[edit] The Trouble With Spikol

This column is written by Liz Spikol, PW's former Managing Editor. She reports on issues relating to mental illness, and chronicles her own health struggles. In 2005 she started an online blog of the same name.