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Richard Rodriguez talks about ...

... The Twilight of the American Newspaper . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

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City of Los Angeles is Guest at Guadalajara Book Fair

... Poncho Sanchez and bands Los Lobos and Ozomatli. Literary figures include authors Ray Bradbury, Richard Rodriguez, and David Ulin. Librarians embrace FILFIL, now in its 23rd year, is considered the most important event for the world’s Spanish-language book market, and with more than 600,000 participants, it is the largest book fair in the world after the Frankfurt Book Fair. Librarians...

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'Collapse' (in Arts and Culture)

... they're only going on in my personal zeitgeist. After I staggered away from the screen, I read Richard Rodriguez's article about the death of the American newspaper "Final Edition" in Harper's Magazine. That old saw you may say, but the ending of the essay pierced me like an arrow. As the author climbs his stairs, having collected his news from his front step, he writes "I am so lonely...

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CTA president: Mom's stroller story 'plausible'

Ebere Ozonwu and her daughter Rachel appear before the congregation at the Garden of Life Church in Rogers Park Sunday. (WGN-TV) A woman who says her toddler's stroller was dragged by a CTA train and her daughter flung off the station platform seems to be telling a "plausible story,'' CTA President Richard Rodriguez said today. Rodriguez also said the doors of the car appeared...

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Train Kept A Rollin'

... ever asked me. So as soon as they asked me, I said, ‘Well, why not'’” As for the CTA, President Richard Rodriguez is facing a budget deficit of $178 million . If resources don't come from somewhere, he's faced with the reality of fare hikes and reduced service . Under those circumstances, the decision to let Apple renovate and improve the station is a no-brainer. What about your station?...

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Newspapers and civic pride stand or fall together

By Steven T. Jones In his cover essay for this month’s Harper’s Magazine, “Final Edition: Twilight of the American newspaper ,” writer Richard Rodriguez (an editor at New American Media here in SF) describes the demise of newspapers as a...

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Perhaps Newspapers Are Dying Because Our Sense Of Place Is Too.

... from city. via www.harpers.org From - Final edition: Twilight of the American newspaper—By Richard Rodriguez (Harper's Magazine) which reads like a Walter Benamin-like meditation on place...

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Gang Member to Get Makeover for Trial, Says Attorney

"Clothes make the man, and a mustache couldn't hurt either," will apparently be the trial theme in Richard Rodriguez's case against the city of El Monte, California. Rodriguez sued the city in July, alleging that a police officer used excessive...

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Two More Sweet New Journals You Can (Should) Hold in Your Hands: PEN America #11 and Saltgrass #4

... to fall asleep. Also, as long as we’re talking about new issues of things, the current Harper’s (Richard Rodriguez’s “Twilight of the American Newspaper” cover) has Diane Williams in the READINGS section and Christine Schutt as the fiction feature. Seems to be another piece of Christine’s new novel. Good times!

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On the death of newspapers

... The cost of my cyber-urban experience is disconnection from body, from presence, from city. Richard Rodriguez in this month’s Harper’s Magazine [ subscription required ]

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The Morning Reading: "Final Edition: Twilight of the American newspaper" - Richard Rodriguez

This just in. The November issue of Harper's features an essay by Richard Rodriguez titled, "Final edition: Twilight of the American newspaper." I started reading it, got very sad as you do when reading an obituary, had to put it aside, and then, later, picked it up again to finish it. Only an abstract is available online, so you have to visit a library or buy your own copy...

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Becoming Americans

... weeks after their arrival. (That last selection, a melancholy excerpt from “Hunger of Memory” by Richard Rodriguez, points the way toward the experiences of the second generation.)The selections in “Becoming Americans” are arranged according to the date when the author arrived here. Ilan Stavans, the editor of this volume, appears on page 629. In the short introduction to his essay...

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A city and its newspaper ...

... Richard Rodriguez: The Death of the SF Chronicle. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) Don't forget to click on the podcast at the bottom.

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Time to help CTA get on the cash flow track

The is perennially broke and again warning of a hefty fare increase. So I asked CTA President Richard Rodriguez what he's doing about it, and he pointed to Eva-Dina Delgado's promotion to chief development officer.So far, Delgado has focused on more traditional methods to raise cash such as renegotiating beverage vending and park-and-ride lot contracts. The CTA also is exploring allowing...

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Another Turning Point; A Fork Stuck In The Road

... to run plays from a read option look, much akin to that so beloved (and used effectively) by Richard Rodriguez.In my opinion, this in and of itself is news-ish. Not necessarily big-hitting news, but since errbody and they mama has an opinion either good or bad about Ohio State, it was sure to get some attention. We discussed Pryor’s coach in our morning emails today, and this is Rock’s...