Posts Tagged ‘The Alley’
Alley Board – 2021 Year in Review
The coronavirus pandemic continues to challenge our ability to connect in person with our partners, sponsors, and our Phillips community members. The pandemic has limited our ability to strengthen our relationships, and to host in-person fundraisers. In spite of these challenges, we have successfully continued to publish the Alley, and we have increased our capacity to find new writers in the Phillips community, who bring a more diverse array of stories and information to you. For this, credit is due to the Editorial Leadership Committee, a group of Phillips volunteers dedicated to telling the stories of our neighborhood through community-led journalism. The Committee was formed a few years ago, to focus on distributing the work of storytelling and copy-editing our monthly content to more community members, to better support our mission of community led and community informed journalism. While fundraising continues to be a challenge, we are happy to report that we were [...]
Why I Contribute to the Alley
By our wonderful contributors! Dave Moore, cartoonist (with Linnea Hadaway), Dave’s Dumpster, Spirit of Phillips 1. Tradition. I've been in the alley almost monthly since the mid-80s. 2. Wendell Phillips. Our neighborhood is named after this freedom fighter. Linnea Hadaway & I are proud to illustrate quotations from his speeches. 3. I like sharing art with my neighbors. I wish some would say "I can do better than that" and send in their own. Dwight Hobbes, writer, Something I Said Because it is the only community newspaper I've written for that doesn’t serve a publisher's propagandist agenda first and the community as an afterthought. Marti Maltby, writer, Peace House Community I started writing for the alley because they asked me to contribute a column each month from PHC, which seemed like an easy way to contribute to the neighborhood. As I've gotten more used to writing the columns, I've grown more comfortable being a [...]
Support the alley on Give to the Max Day! Thursday November 18th.
The Alley is the community newspaper of the Phillips Community in Minneapolis. We serve more than 20,000 residents, and many businesses, agencies, schools, and visitors to Phillips. Now in our 45th year of publication, we continue to be a forum of ideas, information, and announcements, all directed at the variety of individuals and groups who are part of this neighborhood. The Alley is the only paper to concentrate exclusively on the Phillips Community. This allows us to cover in-depth the issues and stories that matter to the people who live here. The Alley is a non-profit organization; our mission is to provide a place where voices that are often ignored by the mainstream media can be heard. The Alley counters the often negative portrayal of our community with the narrative of its residents that offer a more balanced documentation of the Phillips community. We encourage community involvement in all aspects of creating the paper. We want the voices of Phillips to be heard. If you are [...]
