Groundbreaking alternative paper Village Voice shuts down

New York • The Village Voice, the Pulitzer Prize-winning alternative weekly known for its muckraking investigations, brash political reporting, exhaustive arts criticism and anxiety-laden cartoons, is going out of business after 63 years.The paper's publisher, Peter Barbey, announced Friday that the pioneering paper is ceasing publication entirely because of financial problems, a year after it stopped circulating in print."This is a sad day for The Village Voice and for millions of readers,