Newcity (sometimes style NewCity) is a media company based in Chicago. Formerly publishers of a free, weekly alternative newspaper, the company now publishes a glossy monthly free magazine using the same Newcity name.[5] Newcity also owns and manages the Chicago Film Project, a production company dedicated to telling artistic stories centered in Chicago.
Newcity's first publication was a neighborhood newspaper.[6] In 1988, the Hieggelke's began publishing Newcity as a free, weekly alternative newspaper.[8]
Between 2000 and 2010, Newcity reported its newspaper circulation within Chicago to be about 70,000 per week.[3][4]
From 2003 to 2013, Newcity helped finance the relaunch of the University of Chicago student newspaper the Chicago Weekly (formerly called the Chicago Weekly News). Under the partnership, a copy of Newcity came inserted in the middle of each Chicago Weekly issue.[7] In 2013, the Chicago Weekly changed its name to the South Side Weekly and began publishing independently of Newcity.[9]
In March 2017, the Hieggelkes transformed the newspaper into a glossy monthly free magazine, using the same Newcity name.[5]
In March 2018, Newcity branched out as a website developer and creator of custom publications.[8]
Content
Newcity specializes in coverage of Chicago's music, stage, film, and art scenes, and is notable for launching the careers of numerous cartoonists, writers, and art critics.[citation needed] A popular issue is its Best of Chicago feature, in which writers assign the best and worst of Chicago culture and politics.
The publication was described by the Chicago Tribune in 1995 as "sophisticated"[10] and as an "alternative weekly" which was a niche publication in the digital space in 2005.[11]
Newcity covered issues such as traffic congestion; for example, a 2010 editorial called for the city to value walkers as much as drivers.[12]
Newcity's senior editors included Tom Lynch[13] as well as writer Nate Lee.[14][15]Newcity also publishes writers including Michael Nagrant who also writes for The Huffington Post.[16] It also had movie reviews by critic and photographer Ray Pride.[17]
Relative (2022), written and directed by Michael Glover Smith[22]
References
↑"About Newcity". Newcity. October 31, 2010. Retrieved October 31, 2010. Newcity.com is a Web site about Chicago. We start with the core coverage found each week in Newcity magazine, Chicago's only locally owned and operated cultural weekly, where we've been covering the turf for more than 22 years, and extend it with your input on this site.
↑Chauncey Hollingsworth (May 10, 1995). "Shakey Ground: Arts Magazines Find Chicago's Landscape Still Hostile To New Ventures". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved October 31, 2010. A vast expanse of the local cultural landscape lay unexplored between the realm of free arts weeklies like NewCity and the Reader and commercial ventures like Chicago magazine.... NewCity wasn't quite as sophisticated two years ago as it is now.
↑Ella Christoph (September 29, 2010). "A Pedestrian Idea: Why it's time for the city to value walkers as much as drivers". Newcity. Retrieved October 31, 2010. Taxis honk and confused minivans hover midintersection. Bikes slide through the streets dodging doors and inflexible drivers. The crowd at the corner builds as commuters come to a halt—"Don't Walk"—purses and briefcases still swinging.
↑"List of Books by Nate Lee". PaperBackSwap. October 31, 2010. Retrieved October 31, 2010. 2010 - Words From the Cross and 5 Other Dramas for Tweens (Paperback) 2007 - What a Story!
↑"Performance Advertising: Theater, Dance, Comedy, Opera". Newcity. October 2009. Retrieved October 31, 2010. Newcity and the performing arts—theater, dance, comedy, opera—have a long and deep history dating back to our origins in the late eighties, when our first senior editor, Nate Lee, made sure everyone on the staff knew about the Great State of Chicago Theater.
↑Michael Nagrant (December 22, 2008). "Chris Ware, Grim Gastronomic Griper". HuffPost. Retrieved October 31, 2010. That being said, even when Ware's stuff was more accessible, or available for free, it was in places like the Chicago Reader or Newcity (which I write for), niche publications also catering to a certain audience and not quite widely distributed or widely read in certain parts of Chicago.
↑"Printers Row Lit Fest Authors & Speakers". Chicago Tribune. March 15, 2010. Archived from the original on June 19, 2010. Retrieved October 31, 2010. Ray Pride. In conversation with Daniel Clowes, Sunday 11 a.m., Center Stage presented by TheMash. Ray Pride is a writer and photographer reviewing movies for Newcity. He is also the headlines editor of MovieCityNews.
↑Raeburn, Daniel (2004). Chris Ware. New Haven: Yale University Press.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link)
↑Itzkoff, Dave (July 22, 2010). "Some Last Bits of Splendor With Harvey Pekar". The New York Times. Retrieved October 31, 2010. Though Mr. Pekar is often portrayed, even in his own comics, as an endearingly cantankerous and occasionally neurotic person, Ms. Seibel described him in a telephone interview as being cheerful in his final days. 'He just seemed so happy and so upbeat,' said Ms. Seibel, who worked with Mr. Pekar on comics that appeared in Chicago Newcity.
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