We’re now into the third month of our highly selective tour through the past two decades of local news and arts in C-VILLE. Already, we’ve touted our early jump on the Obama bandwagon (remember, this is the paper that projected DMB’s rise to the top), and this week, in light of our cover story about local agitators, we highlight our own determination to agitate by reprinting an excerpt from a 1999 piece about what other alternative publications in town at the time thought of us. So stay tuned as we keep looking back at the accumulated pluck and pizzazz that will power this still free and still free-thinking institution into the next 20 years.
Paging through the archives
“The anonymous editor of David Scott is not a big C-VILLE fan. ‘I’ve rarely been more angered by anything than this issue [“Know your neighbors?”—the list of convicted sex offenders published January 12]. It’s the worst kind of shock journalism… Let’s contribute to the paranoia.’
…The other weeklies in town—The Observer and The Declaration—seem less hostile. ‘I certainly don’t hate C-VILLE,’ says Sydney Burtner at The Observer. ‘Part of its purpose is to raise people’s ire. That’s part of the goal.’”
Lisa Provence, February 9, 1999
Getting covered
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At the time this November 9, 2004, cover appeared, the term “going green” gave off a whiff of quaintness rather than a pungent odor of urgency. But C-VILLE, we’re proud to say, was there to push environmental issues to the forefront of our consciousness. And we’re still pushing, especially in our monthly insert ABODE (check out the latest issue this week) with its regular “Green Scene” feature and many other nods to what “going green” actually means and how to do it—it ain’t that hard.
