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Los Angeles Free Press, the city's original alternative weekly, has been resurrected.


Los Angeles Free Press The Los Angeles Free Press (often called “the Freep” and "the LAFP") was among the most widely distributed underground newspapers of the 1960s. It is often cited as the first such newspaper. , the city's original alternative weekly, has been resurrected. Art Kunkin, the editor who started the anti-war paper in 1964, has returned to his roots to produce 12 issues of the new Freep. This time the Iraq war Iraq War: see under Persian Gulf Wars.
Iraq War
 or Second Persian Gulf War

Brief conflict in 2003 between Iraq and a combined force of troops largely from the U.S. and Great Britain; and a subsequent U.S.
 has replaced Vietnam, and display ads sell DVDs instead of vinyl LPs, but the spirit remains. In fact, the DVDs are movies about the psychedelic psychedelic /psy·che·del·ic/ (si?ki-del´ik)
1. pertaining to or characterized by hallucinations, distortions of perception and awareness, and sometimes psychotic-like behavior.

2. a drug that produces such effects.
 '60s. For an update, visit www.losangelesfreepress.com.
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Title Annotation:News & Notes
Author:Russell, Joel
Publication:Los Angeles Business Journal
Article Type:Brief article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Sep 4, 2006
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