Figaro (New Orleans)

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Figaro was an American weekly magazine published from 1883 to 1884 in New Orleans, with a focus on theater and politics.[1] C. Vann Woodward notes that the magazine was "hostile to the unions".[2]

There have been two later iterations of a magazine of that name in New Orleans. From 1972 to 1981, there was an alternative magazine under that name published by the Mercury Press, which covered entertainment, politics, and did investigative journalism. It was compared to the later Gambit Weekly.[3] That magazine was slated to return as a quarterly in 1988.[4]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Mott, Frank Luther. A History of American Magazines, 1865-1885. Vol. 3. The Belknap Press. p. 45. ISBN 9780674395527.
  2. ^ Woodward, C. Vann (1981). Origins of the New South, 1877-1913. A History of the South. Vol. 9. LSU Press. p. 499. ISBN 9780807158203.
  3. ^ Street, Julia (December 1, 2010). "Julia Street with Poydras the Parrot". New Orleans Magazine. Retrieved April 7, 2022.
  4. ^ Plume, Janet (March 11, 1988). "Alternative New Orleans weekly to return". United Press International. Retrieved April 7, 2022.