Metro Times
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The Metro Times is the largest circulating weekly newspaper in the metro Detroit area. Supported entirely by advertising, it is distributed free of charge every Wednesday in newsstands in businesses and libraries around the city and suburbs. Compared to the two dailies, the Detroit Free Press
and the Detroit News, the Metro Times has a liberal orientation. Average circulation for the Metro Times is 89,496 weekly. Average readership is just over 700,000 weekly.
Its columnists include Larry Gabriel; journalism professor Jack Lessenberry; and authorized Alice Cooper
and The Stooges
biographer Jeffrey Morgan
.
Its personals advertising are more widely read than those of the two dailies.
Every year, the Metro Times has reader fiction and photography contests judged by famous local writers and photographers. Its annual "Best of Detroit" survey bestows local businesses with highly sought honors.
The Metro Times considers itself "alternative media," often featuring news items ignored by the dailies. It also uses profanity not used by the dailies.
Syndicated alternative comics run by the Metro Times have in the past included such greats as Perry Bible Fellowship, This Modern World
, Eric Monster Millikin
and Red Meat
. The Metro Times also prints Dan Savage's Savage Love
sex advice column (which replaced Isadora Duncan's Ask Isadora sex advice column) and Rob Brezsny's
Free Will Astrology. Starting with the January 19–25 issue, the Metro Times had its own exclusive crossword, crafted by Brooklyn-based cruciverbalist Ben Tausig, who appears in the documentary Wordplay
. The crossword was cut in May 2008, to save space.
The Metro Times won 12 awards from the Michigan Press Association in 2006. The paper also won awards in 2005 and 2004.
Every year the Metro Times is an official sponsor of the Detroit Festival of the Arts
and has one of the stages named after it.
Detroit Free Press
The Detroit Free Press is the largest daily newspaper in Detroit, Michigan, USA. The Sunday edition is entitled the Sunday Free Press. It is sometimes informally referred to as the "Freep"...
and the Detroit News, the Metro Times has a liberal orientation. Average circulation for the Metro Times is 89,496 weekly. Average readership is just over 700,000 weekly.
Its columnists include Larry Gabriel; journalism professor Jack Lessenberry; and authorized Alice Cooper
Alice Cooper
Alice Cooper is an American rock singer, songwriter and musician whose career spans more than four decades...
and The Stooges
The Stooges
The Stooges are an American rock band from Ann Arbor, Michigan first active from 1967 to 1974, and later reformed in 2003...
biographer Jeffrey Morgan
Jeffrey Morgan
Jeffrey Morgan is a Canadian writer, musician, photographer, and poet who lives in Toronto, Ontario. Morgan is best known for being the authorized biographer of both Alice Cooper and The Stooges.-CREEM:...
.
Its personals advertising are more widely read than those of the two dailies.
Every year, the Metro Times has reader fiction and photography contests judged by famous local writers and photographers. Its annual "Best of Detroit" survey bestows local businesses with highly sought honors.
The Metro Times considers itself "alternative media," often featuring news items ignored by the dailies. It also uses profanity not used by the dailies.
Syndicated alternative comics run by the Metro Times have in the past included such greats as Perry Bible Fellowship, This Modern World
This Modern World
This Modern World is a weekly satirical comic strip by cartoonist and political commentator Tom Tomorrow that covers current events from a liberal point of view. Tomorrow also runs a weblog that informs readers about stories of interest, often presented as a follow up to his cartoons...
, Eric Monster Millikin
Eric Monster Millikin
Eric Millikin, also known as Eric Monster Millikin, is an award-winning American artist and former human anatomy lab embalmer and dissectionist...
and Red Meat
Red Meat
Max Cannon's Red Meat is an independent comic strip begun in 1989. It appears in over 75 alternative weeklies and college papers in the United States and in other countries. Since 1996, it has been available for reading on the web.- Style :...
. The Metro Times also prints Dan Savage's Savage Love
Savage Love
Savage Love is a syndicated sex-advice column by Dan Savage. The column appears weekly in several dozen newspapers, mainly free newspapers in the US and Canada, but also newspapers in Europe and Asia...
sex advice column (which replaced Isadora Duncan's Ask Isadora sex advice column) and Rob Brezsny's
Rob Brezsny
Rob Brezsny is an American astrologer, writer, poet, and musician. His weekly horoscope column Free Will Astrology , has been published for more than 28 years, runs in 120 periodicals, and can be subscribed to for free via email.- Career :Brezsny is the first well-known horoscope columnist...
Free Will Astrology. Starting with the January 19–25 issue, the Metro Times had its own exclusive crossword, crafted by Brooklyn-based cruciverbalist Ben Tausig, who appears in the documentary Wordplay
Wordplay (film)
Wordplay is a 2006 documentary film directed by Patrick Creadon. It features Will Shortz, the editor of the New York Times crossword puzzle, crossword constructor Merl Reagle, and many other noted crossword solvers and constructors...
. The crossword was cut in May 2008, to save space.
The Metro Times won 12 awards from the Michigan Press Association in 2006. The paper also won awards in 2005 and 2004.
Every year the Metro Times is an official sponsor of the Detroit Festival of the Arts
Detroit Festival of the Arts
The Detroit Festival of the Arts is a three day arts festival in Detroit, Michigan, held on the second weekend of June. First held in 1986, the Festival features free musical performances, art showings, activities for children and expensive food...
and has one of the stages named after it.