My grandmother’s from New York, God rest her soul. It’s just one of those things where I was like, wow, mind blown. So that is a place that I’ve gone to a few times when I was in New York. I don’t think a trip goes by that I don’t go to La Esquina.Īnd then also, for entertainment there’s this kind of alternative show, a cabaret theater kind of situation, but very, very alternative, called the Box, which is super crazy and off the wall and just really different. It’s like this hole-in-the-wall taco stand and Mexican restaurant, literally on a corner, but then there’s also a downstairs speakeasy situation that’s also a restaurant that serves Mexican food and has a really cool bar. I can tell you one of my favorite places, which I don’t even know if I should tell you because it’s kind of embarrassing, but one of my favorite restaurants is called La Esquina, which in Spanish means the - you know, I speak Spanish - it means the corner. There was always something funny and sassy, like Michael Musto’s column - my favorite - and then good information about what to do, where to go, what was hip.ĭo you have any favorite parts of New York City? Places to go? Restaurants? And you know, on trips to New York, I would always pick up the Village Voice. So I just called Peter Barbey.ĭid you have a personal connection to the Voice before buying it? The Voice is probably more important than ever. Besides its reputation for hard-hitting investigative journalism - which is going to be needed in the aftermath of COVID - people are going to want to go out, whether it’s to concerts or festivals or nightlife or food or art or the theater. But I thought, the Village Voice is going to be super important when things start to go back online. Not taking anything away from L.A., which I think is the purveyor of culture in the country. I kept going back in my head to New York, because in many ways New York is America’s city. The following interview has been edited for clarity and brevity. Times at length about the deal, though he declined to comment on the financial details of the purchase or the settled suit. An investor filed a lawsuit accusing Calle and the rest of the ownership group of having “pillaged” the company, only to settle for undisclosed terms in 2019.Ĭalle offered to speak with the L.A. Former staffers and contributors started a boycott movement against the paper. There were sweeping layoffs, followed by accusations of a conservative takeover of the historically left-leaning publication, due in part to Calle’s connection to the far-right Claremont Institute and other right-wing organizations. Weekly publisher has not been without controversy. In an unrelated deal, Calle also acquired the San Francisco neighborhood paper the Marina Times.Ĭalle’s stint as L.A. Calle has hired a former Voice editor to oversee its revival and plans to relaunch the website this spring, eventually publishing a print quarterly as well as podcasts and videos. Through his company Street Media, Calle bought the Voice, which ceased publishing in 2018, for an undisclosed sum from its former owner, Peter Barbey. He surprised the media world again in December by purchasing the nation’s most storied alt-weekly, the Village Voice. The editor of the Orange County Register’s opinion section, backed by a group of investors initially kept secret for weeks, seemed like an unlikely buyer for the irreverent, muckraking alt-weekly.
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