Tim Ericson, a former managing editor, used to point out to me that our ambitions have always been bigger than our budgets. He was right. For 30 years, that’s been the secret of our success.
Read more of L.A. Weekly's 30th Anniversary features below:
"Between the Lines: The Music at the Edges," by Jonathan Gold
"Grace and Calm: Bob LaBrasca, the Writers' Editor," by Michael Ventura
"Ginger Varney's 'Edendale's Day of the Dead,'" by Michael Ventura
"Reading the Signs: Explaining the Inexplicable During the Civil Unrest of 1992," by Lynell George
"How I Became Publisher of the L.A. Weekly," by Michael Sigman
"True Blue: Finding Home in a Material World," by Arion Berger
"Harold's Office: Six Words, and a Memo to Remember," by Tom Christie
"L.A. Weekly Founder Jay Levin on the Vision That Started It All: The Journalist's Dream," by Jay Levin
"Post-Post-Punk and the Rise and Fall of Elliot Smith," by John Payne
"A Letter at 3 PM: On Michael Ventura, L.A. Weekly's Bogart in Cowboy Boots," by John Powers
"It Started With a Kiss: Finding Shelter Among the Stray Cats," by Joe Donnelly
"The Freedom to Write," by Alan Rifkin
"Unconventional Smarts: When the Weekly Went Daily," by Sue Horton
"The Two-minute Interview," by Greg Goldin
"The Mating of Millie: Dogfucker Blues," by Rian Malan
"The Weekly's World News: The Paper Looks to Central America and Comes of Age," by Marc Cooper
"The Verdict: After Rodney King," by R.J. Smith
"The Man in the Mirrored Sunglasses: From El Salvador to D.C.'s Oliver North Hearings, the Weekly Far From Home," by Ginger Varney
"Upon Entering the Scene: Every Drama Critic's Nightmare," by Steven Leigh Morris
"Marking Our Turf: The Piss Christ Moment in America's Culture Wars," by Kit Rachlis
"L.A. Dee Dallapalooza: Birth of a Nightranger," by Lina Lecaro
"What Happened at the Botanica: The Death of a Labor Leader and its Reverberations," by Alan Mittelstaedt
"The Weekly Goes to the Movies," by Scott Foundas
"Between the Frames," by Ella Taylor
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