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Photograph by Caroline C. Kilgore
Photograph by Caroline C. Kilgore

Over four decades, upstarts have tried—and failed—to take down “Creative Loafing.” Two of our favorite would-be alternatives to the alternative had short-lived blazes of glory in the 1990s: literary “HighPoint” and out-there “Poets, Artists & Madmen.”

Back to the 90s

This article originally appeared in our March 2015 issue.

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