City Pages

City Pages is an alternative weekly newspaper serving the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area. It features news, film and theatre reviews, and is heavily loaded with classifieds and other advertisements. It is printed in a tabloid format, and is available for free.

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The paper frequently runs articles covering the happenings in area radio and television. The paper first went online in 1995, and most articles from the mid-1990s onward are available on City Pages website. "Best of the Twin Cities" awards are listed each year, covening a wide range of topics such as the best meal under $5, best sex shop, and the best radio and television personalities. The 2004 award for "Best TV Weatherperson" went to the computerized voice reading aviation weather on KTCI channel 17.

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Circulation for City Pages is reported to be around 26.7% of the Twin Cities market.

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City Pages was purchased by New York's Village Voice in the late 1990s. The Voice also purchased the Twin Cities Reader around the same time, but shut that paper down.

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