Editing Weekly Alibi

{{Short description|Newspaper in Albuquerque, New Mexico}}
{{Infobox newspaper
| name               = Weekly Alibi
| image              = Weekly Alibi, August 15-21, 2019.jpg
| caption            = Cover of the August 15–21, 2019, issue
| type               = Online Entertainment
| owners             = NuCity Publications
| founder            = Christopher Johnson and Daniel Scott
| publisher          = Constance Moss
| editor             = Devin D. O'Leary
| maneditor          = Dan Pennington
| newseditor         = August March
| foundation         = 1992
| language           = English
| ceased publication = 2020
| headquarters       = [[Albuquerque]], [[New Mexico]]
| circulation        = 37,057
| circulation_date   = June 2015
| circulation_ref    = <ref name="AltWeeklies.com 2014">{{cite web | title=Weekly Alibi | website=AltWeeklies.com | date=October 23, 2014  | url=http://www.altweeklies.com/aan/weekly-alibi/Company?oid=96 | accessdate=February 25, 2015}}</ref>
| ISSN               = 1088-0496
| website            = {{URL|http://alibi.com}}
| free               = Yes
}}

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'''''Weekly Alibi''''', commonly referred to as '''''The Alibi''''', was a free weekly news, arts, culture, and entertainment newspaper and [[website]] in [[Albuquerque, New Mexico]].<ref name="Fodors Travel Publications 2014 p. 331">{{cite book | title=Fodor's In Focus Santa Fe: with Taos and Albuquerque | publisher=Fodor's Travel Publications | series=Full-color Travel Guide | isbn=978-0-8041-4237-3 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KzktAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT331 | accessdate=February 25, 2015 | page=331}}</ref> The main features were the website's award-winning news section, featuring cultural commentary by August March; the calendar listings; reviews and guides to arts; art criticism; entertainment news; music interviews; and film reviews by noted film critic/Managing Editor Devin O'Leary. Its "Chowtown" restaurant guide<ref>{{cite web | title=Chowtown | website=alibi | date=February 25, 2015 | url=http://alibi.com/restaurants/restaurants.html | accessdate=February 25, 2015}}</ref> and its "Best of [[Burque]]" award issues, which covered everything from "Best Community Action Group" and "Best All-You-Can-Eat" to "Best Gay Bar" were popular features of Weekly Alibi.<ref name="Petersen 2015">{{cite web | last=Petersen | first=Carl | title=Best of Burque 2014 | website=alibi | date=February 19, 2015 | url=http://alibi.com/feature/46581/Best-of-Burque-2014.html | accessdate=February 25, 2015}}</ref>

Originally the newspaper was a bi-weekly newspaper called ''NuCity'', but changed its name due to a similar Chicago newspaper entitled ''[[Newcity]]''.

The newspaper and website were members of the [[Association of Alternative Newsmedia]] as well as the [[National Newspaper Association]].

The ''Weekly Alibi'' is closed; its last edition was published in late August, 2020.

==See also==
*[[Local iQ]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*{{Official site|http://www.alibi.com/}}

[[Category:Defunct newspapers published in New Mexico]]
[[Category:Mass media in Albuquerque, New Mexico]]
[[Category:Publications with year of establishment missing]]
[[Category:Weekly newspapers published in the United States]]


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