Los Angeles Reader

Los Angeles Reader
Type Alternative weekly
Format Tabloid
Owner(s) Burnside Group
Founded 1978
Ceased publication August 16, 1996
Headquarters 5550 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90036
 United States
Circulation 60,000
ISSN 1046-2392

Los Angeles Reader was a weekly paper established in 1978 and distributed in Los Angeles, USA. It followed the format of the (still active) Chicago Reader. The paper was known for having lengthy, thoughtful reviews of movies, plays and concerts in the LA area. James Vowell was its founding editor. Among its writers were Keith Fitzgerald, Nigey Lennon, Lionel Rolfe, Lawrence Wechsler, Mick Farren, Richard Meltzer, Chris Morris, Jerry Stahl, Steven Kane, Andy Klein, Allen Levy, Jim Goad, Kirk Silsbee, Henry Sheehan, Samantha Dunn, Natalie Nichols, Steve Appleford, Eric Mankin (also editor), Paul Birchall, Eddie Rivera (who wrote the paper's first cover story), Amy Steinberg, Harry Sheehan, Dan Sallit, Myron Meisel, David Ehrenstein. Tom Davis, Bruce Bebb, Stuart Goldman, Ernest Hardy, Kevin Uhrich, Erik Himmelsbach and David L. Ulin. It is famous for being the first newspaper to publish Matt Groening's cartoon strip, Life in Hell on April 25, 1980. James Vowell hired Matt Groening as his assistant editor in 1979. Groening was also originally a Reader music critic. It also ran a cartoon strip by David Lynch (director of Blue Velvet) called The Angriest Dog in the World, a strip notable for having exactly the same drawing panels for its entire run. James Vowell and his wife Codette Wallace bought the Reader from the Chicago Reader in February 1989. They sold "The Reader" to New Times Media in 1996, which merged it with the Los Angeles View to form New Times LA.

An archived article from the L.A. Reader


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