Peter Barbey News Today

Heritage Museums & Gardens has received a $3.5 million donation from the Edwin Barbey Charitable Trust for the construction of a new welcome center.

Heritage Museums & Gardens is expected to finish construction on a multimillion-dollar welcome center in April. What does the new facility include?

The literary writer’s organization PEN America has hired a human rights advocate, Liesl Gerntholtz, to expand its support of writers around the world who face imprisonment for their work

The US$10 million gift of the Barbey family has established PEN's new Freedom to Write Center, which Liesl Gerntholtz will helm.

Village Voice, RIP (no more online articles either) NYC independent weekly The Village Voiceceased publication of its print edition in 2017 after 60 years of the paper but continued publish online. Gothamist reports that the digital edition is now dead too: Three years after buying The Village Voice, and a year after the paper shut down its print edition, owner Peter Barbey told the remaining staff today that the publication will no longer be posting any new stories. "Today is kind of a sucky ...

Village Voice newspaper to return to New York City By FOX 5 NY Staff Published  article People pass by a Village Voice newspaper stand in the East Village neighborhood in Manhattan, August 22, 2017. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) NEW YORK - The iconic Village Voice is going to make a comeback in New York City.  A new company has bought the alternative weekly and its archives and plans a return. The paper shut down in 2018 but much of its archives still live online. Brian Calle, who al...

Kristin Thorne reports on the a 3-year-old English bulldog-pit bull mix. The sale comes after a multi-year effort by the former publisher, Peter Barbey, to create a full digital archive of The Village Voice in order to preserve the papers complete historical record. The paper will resume in its digital format in January 2021 and will be published in print quarterly with plans to increase that number over time. Over its 63 years of publication, The Village Voice received countless accolades incl...

Village Voice to Be Revived as Digital Site Next Month by LA Weekly Owner The paper will resume in its digital format in January 2021 with plans for a quarterly print editionLindsey Ellefson | December 23, 2020 @ 11:34 AM A stack of Village Voice newspapers in 2017 (Getty Images) New York City’s iconic Village Voice is being resurrected as a digital website two years after it ceased operations. It was bought by Street Media, which also owns LA Weekly and Irvine Weekly. The digital iterat...

Village Voice newspaper to be resurrected under ownership of Southern California investment group Published: Dec. 22, 2020 at 6:10 p.m. ET By Email icon The Village Voice will be heard again. The iconic New York alternative weekly, which closed in 2018 after more than half a century of chronicling the city’s cultural life, will return early next year with a new owner. Street Media, a California investment group that owns LA Weekly, has acquired the Voice from Peter Barbey, an ...

The Village Voice, New York Alternative Weekly, Is Poised to Return New owner will begin posting content online in January and bring publication back to print as quarterly at end of March For decades, the Village Voice set the pace for arts coverage in New York. Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images By The Village Voice will be heard again. The iconic New York alternative weekly, which closed in 2018 after more than half a century of chronicling the city’s cultur...