OT: The Onion coming to Ann Arbor

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ClickOnDetroit.com is reporting that The Onion will now be circulating their newspaper throughout Ann Arbor. Story lives here

The partnership will bring print editions of The Onion to Ann Arbor street corners, coffee shops, bars and bookstores for the first time. Local A.V. Club content featuring the best of Ann Arbor music, comedy, film and arts will also be featured in the newspaper.

Though I love The Onion, as I'm sure many of you do as well, I can't believe this will be a good thing for UM's own Every Three Weekly. I believe Brian wrote for it when he was in school and I loved reading it in the stands before football games on Fall Saturdays.

Bando Calrissian

July 26th, 2011 at 12:09 PM ^

When did free distribution in Ann Arbor stop before?  Mid 90's?  This is great news.  One of the little cultural advantages to living in Chicago was the free Onions everywhere.  Glad it's followed me back to Michigan.

Bando Calrissian

July 26th, 2011 at 12:24 PM ^

It was a moment of celebration in the beginning when you could actually find an E3W.  There weren't any boxes or stacks of copies everywhere, you'd have to pretty much find someone handing them out.  I remember getting more than a few copies in the concourse at Yost.

BlueDragon

July 26th, 2011 at 12:36 PM ^

I love The Onion, and I hope to someday wake up in my future apartment in AA, walk downstairs, and pick up a free copy of The Onion magazine hot off the presses.

strafe

July 26th, 2011 at 2:36 PM ^

We've still got a decent presence on campus - a lot bigger than we used to, at least.

The garg was pretty terrible from like, 2003 - 2009, but we've quadrupled our staff under the last two editors and print way more often (and sometimes stuff that's actually funny).

MMBhorn

July 26th, 2011 at 2:55 PM ^

I pretty much ignored the Gargolye after my freshman year (07) but now that I work the overnight shift at the Fishbowl i started picking up copies when it was an especially slow night. Over the last year or so there has been a noticeable increase in quality, so keep on doing what you're doing; it seems to be working.

CRISPed in the DIAG

July 26th, 2011 at 3:18 PM ^

I read the Gargoyle religiously in the late '80s.  When I left, I didn't read a print edition until my brother arrived on campus in '02 and gave me a copy during one of his breaks.  It seemed very unfunny - in contrast to E3W which sold me with headlines like "North Campus Officially Renamed 'BFE'".  Good to hear that the Gargoyle is getting back on its feet.

Coastal Elite

July 26th, 2011 at 2:32 PM ^

The Onion is great, but all of its satirical pieces are based on national stories. What I got from the OP is that the edition available in Ann Arbor will contain national content from The Onion and local arts/entertainment content from the AV Club (the more serious, cultural side of the operation).

Sooo rather than infringing on the Every Three Weekly's territory, I would expect the Michigan Daily's arts section to be in trouble.

pz

July 26th, 2011 at 8:21 PM ^

As a current resident of Minneapolis, former part-time resident of Madison (both Onion cities), and once student in Ann Arbor longing for satire beyond the Every Three Weekly... this is a great proposition for all involved! Everyone pick up your Onion every week!

Also, as pertains to The Onion, this site is mandatory material: http://literallyunbelievable.org/