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The Weekly Week was a short-lived satirical tabloid newspaper

News satire

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published bi-weekly in the Boston

Boston

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area from Fall 1997 to Spring 1999, with a free circulation of 25,000. Billing itself "Boston's Only Redundant News Source for News" and publishing contributions from numerous local stand-up comedians of the time, it parodied a wide range of social, political and cultural topics in much the same manner as the better known publication The Onion

The Onion

The Onion is an American news satire organization. It is an entertainment newspaper and a website featuring satirical articles reporting on international, national, and local news, in addition to a non-satirical entertainment section known as The A.V. Club...

, but with a predominantly local focus. The newspaper was produced by Eugene Mirman

Eugene Mirman

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and edited by Bill Wasik

Bill Wasik

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, and featured contributions from such comedians as Brendon Small

Brendon Small

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. Black "honor box" newsracks printed with its trademark "WW" logo could at one time be found throughout the Boston area.

Format

The Weekly Week's format typically included a Front Page; Letters to the Editor

Letter to the editor

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; Horoscope

Horoscope

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; Police Log; Local, World, and National news sections; an Arts section; and assorted Local Culture sections and Advice or Opinion columns.

Recurring Features

Recurring features in the Weekly Week included the advice column

Advice column

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s "Advice from a Pimp

Pimp

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," "Financial Advice from the Deceased," and the horoscopes of "Max the Psychic

Psychic

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List of Notable Headlines and Article Titles

"Student 'death' blamed on 'meta-amphetamines'"
"Boston starts Eurotrash
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recycling program"
"Q*bert attacks Charles Hotel"
"Good Will Hunting
Good Will Hunting
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thrusts South Boston geniuses into public eye"
"Tensions build as Aztec
Aztec
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presence grows"
"Local mad scientist
Mad scientist
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s want only acceptance, world domination
Hegemony
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"
"'I Can’t Believe It’s Not Birth Control
Birth control
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' debuts"
"Where to make love and be seen"
"Snakes are everywhere!"
"Snakes NOT everywhere" - retraction two weeks later
"Hamburger Helper, Not so helpful."

Format

Recurring Features

List of Notable Headlines and Article Titles

External links

See also