"Bloodbath" Day at Village Voice - Musto, Feingold, Sietsema Out

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 5/17/13 at 12:01pm

Yikes!

[Mildred Plotka]

Posted: 5/17/13 at 12:05pm

Did they finally read 1 of Musto's "articles"?

[egghumor]

Posted: 5/17/13 at 12:09pm

Wow, and wow again.

There's so much to say and speculate about this, but I shall refrain, for now...

[ClydeBarrow]

Posted: 5/17/13 at 12:12pm

Has chanel been reached for comment?

[AC126748]

Posted: 5/17/13 at 12:43pm

Feingold is the only critic in New York worth reading, as far as I'm concerned. The only actual critic, who elevates his evaluations beyond the level of a mere review. I hope he lands in a new situation soon.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 5/17/13 at 12:54pm

Well, that's it for me and the Voice, and I got my first subscription in '77 or so. The current publishers have taken the hatchet to that masthead so many times, it's probably inevitable that two longtime staff writers like Musto and Feingold will go. Small wonder the editors quit last week.

[Ed_Mottershead]

Posted: 5/17/13 at 1:05pm

Maybe Fiengold could replace Brantley? Brantley's way overstayed his welcome and the whole thing about Matilda told me that it's time for him to go -- permanently.

[jv92]

Posted: 5/17/13 at 1:18pm

I hope Feingold finds work again soon. He is a wonderful writer. Sad news.

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 5/17/13 at 1:22pm

I hear Corine is hiring.

[jv92]

Posted: 5/17/13 at 1:25pm

Maybe she can hire Brantley from the Times?

[PalJoey]

Posted: 5/17/13 at 2:14pm

The Village Voice is dead to me.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 5/17/13 at 2:17pm

Me too Peej. Feingold and Musto were the only thing keeping it on life support.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 5/17/13 at 2:19pm

What is the paper the voice of, now?

[RippedMan]

Posted: 5/17/13 at 2:26pm

Wasn't it a free publication anyway? I always grabbed one on the way to the subway.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 5/17/13 at 2:30pm

The Times doesn't mention Feingold.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 5/17/13 at 2:36pm

For some reason, they never have.

People have been telling them for years: Brantley is an embarrassment. Hire Feingold. And they never have.

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 5/17/13 at 2:37pm

"Feingold is the only critic in New York worth reading, as far as I'm concerned. The only actual critic, who elevates his evaluations beyond the level of a mere review. I hope he lands in a new situation soon."

Totally agree!

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 5/17/13 at 2:37pm

I haven't read it since Marlys left.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 5/17/13 at 2:38pm

I said it in a thread last week that I think the space Feingold has carved out for himself precludes ever writing for the Times as a first or second stringer. He is in no way a Broadway booster.

Sueleen, this appeared on Musto's Facebook page:

"My wish is that I win the lottery on Saturday because if I do I could afford to hire you to write for my site. My dream. Love you."

[Unknown User]

Posted: 5/17/13 at 3:55pm

Sad sad sad. I subscribed to the Village Voice when I went of to college in the fall of 1980 and have been a faithful reader ever since Without Sietsema, Feingold and Musto what is left? Some weeks it seems like those three wrote half the website.

With Life in Hell, Lynda Barry and Savage Love gone..well again, what's left?

[Kad]

Posted: 5/17/13 at 3:57pm

How long until the Voice lays off everyone else, now?

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 5/17/13 at 3:59pm

"I haven't read it since Marlys left."

Oh doodle, I have, but I have missed her the whole time. Akbar & Jeff, too.

[Playbilly]

Posted: 5/17/13 at 4:15pm

I bailed when Sarris did.

[newintown]

Posted: 5/17/13 at 4:25pm

The Voice is a sad dinosaur, a bunch of old 50's-style hidebound unthinking liberals. Better, perhaps, than a bunch of 50's-style hidebound unthinking conservatives, but still rather irrelevant and useless. Let it fold.

However, the Times would be awfully smart to take this opportunity to jettison Banal Ben and bring on someone who not only can write, but who actually knows a lot about theatre (aka Feingold). The Times, however, rarely demonstrates that they have that kind of smarts.

[Kad]

Posted: 5/17/13 at 4:28pm

If the Times was smart, they'd dump Isherwood, too, and take on Adam Feldman.