

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.
