LA Weekly

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Type	Alternative weekly
Format	Tabloid

Owner	Village Voice Media
Publisher	Beth Sestanovich
Editor	Laurie Ochoa
Founded	1978
Headquarters	6715 Sunset Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90028 United States
Circulation	208,548 ^[1]

Website: laweekly.com

LA Weekly is a free weekly tabloid-sized newspaper (a so-called "alternative weekly") in Los Angeles, California. It was founded in 1978 by Jay Levin. It is owned by Village Voice Media (formerly New Times Media), the parent company of other major weeklies such as the New York City's Village Voice, San Francisco's SF Weekly, and the OC Weekly of Orange County, California. It is distributed every Thursday.

According to http://www.laweekly.com/ "LA Weekly has been the premier source for award-winning coverage of Los Angeles music, arts, film, theater, culture, concerts, events, ..." The LA Weekly also recognizes outstanding small theatre productions (99 seats or less) in Los Angeles, with their annual LA Weekly Theater Awards, established in 1979.^[2]

A major source of financial support for the LA Weekly, as for many alternative weeklies, is advertising by "adult" services, such as phone sex providers, escort services and other sex workers, and strip clubs.

Some of its most famous writers are Pulitzer Prize winning food writer Jonathan Gold, classical music writer Alan Rich, and Nikki Finke, who covers the entertainment industry. It is also known for well-written film criticism: The New York Times' Manohla Dargis was the film editor at the Weekly before she moved first to the The Los Angeles Times and then The New York Times; while the Weekly retains articulate critics such as Ella Taylor.