How “Alt-” Will New Alt-Weekly Chain Be?

“A half-century after New York’s Village Voice launched the genre of alternative weeklies, there’s still plenty of war, injustice and corporate domination around. But the anti-establishment counterculture has moved topside. Rock ‘n’ roll jingles hawk luxury cars, mutual funds come with social consciences and alternative weeklies have become a profitable, parallel universe to the mainstream media. In an unmistakable sign that the counterculture has morphed into corporate culture,” now two “alt-weekly” chains are merging…