The Village Voice owns a network of weekly alt-politics, sex ad newspapers from coast to coast.
They make good money off of ad revenue but their measurable impact on the culture is actually quite small.
In Houston, they couldn’t even get 4,000 ballots to nominate best local bands.
http://www.villagevoicemedia.com/
interesting
The Dallas Observer
I remember them. They ran an article/letter claiming FR was raising a rebel army or something and printed my letter to them about it.
They apparently give away a lot of papers, but there is usually only a few articles in those 100+pages. 99% advertising. The local cops could use their classifieds to find all the local hookers. especially the online ones. shudder.