Crime Watch on the Campaign Trail
Tuesday, down behind the brick-and-glass College Street facade of the state’s largest newspaper, a very important meeting was on the schedule, according to Mickey Hirten, executive editor of The Burlington Free Press. The purpose? To deal with the conundrum the paper’s facing in determining a “policy” for handling political candidates with criminal records. Hirten told…
‘Zine Warriors: A Burlington Chapbook Comes Out With Lesbian Lit
When Madonna sang “Express Yourself” some years ago, in The Time Before Baby Lourdes, she probably didn’t have any literary endeavors in mind. But the brassy intention of the song could make, nonetheless, an apt anthem for the writers of ‘zines. Brash, idiosyncratic and irrepressible, ‘zines could be thought of as diaries without the lock…
