In the US, there is a powerful contraction under way, with many newspapers reducing or dispensing with their books pages.
Nadine Eckhardt, Molly's assistant and the wife of the late writer Billy Lee Brammer (author of "The Gay Place"), and who later married Congressman Bob Eckhardt, could be found there on most days clipping newspapers, telling stories and dispensing sassy advice.
Fifty years later, their agitprop wears pretty thin — the show includes flags and AK-47s — but there's much to be gleaned from the documentary photographs, as well as from the pages of the Lords' bilingual newspaper, Palante, which dispensed beauty tips alongside demands for free health care and Puerto Rican independence.
While I was there, the daily newspaper TalCual ran an article dispensing kidnap-survival advice to its readers: "Although it may be difficult, try not to get depressed.
Previously author of the "Ask Lady Cannabis" column in a local pot-culture newspaper, Squibb actually first started dispensing marijuana advice during a six-year run selling hemp ice cream sandwiches from an officially licensed stand inside Red Rock's Amphitheater in Golden, Colorado.
Previously author of the "Ask Lady Cannabis" column in a local weed-culture newspaper, Squibb actually first started dispensing marijuana advice during a six-year run selling hemp ice-cream sandwiches from an officially licensed stand inside Red Rock's Amphitheater in Golden, Colorado.
His two older children -- he has five -- sometimes pitch in behind the old-fashioned marble counter, dispensing coffee and newspapers to commuters each morning and candy to the children who come in after school.
But it did bring newspaper reading into the digital age, dispensing with non-linear navigation and other distractions to maintain a coffee-table reading experience.
There's a great scene in Robert Altman's "The Player" in which a producer dreams of dispensing with screenwriters altogether ("The newspaper. Pick any story").
There's a great scene in Robert Altman's "The Player" in which a producer dreams of dispensing with screenwriters altogether ("The newspaper. Pick any story").
