The Debut Installment of From the Archives
Most people know Matthew Richter, author of an awesome dissection of nonprofits in this week’s paper, as the founding director of ConWorks. But you’d have to have been around a while to know that, before ConWorks, Richter was the theater editor of The Stranger. And he wrote awesome things back then—long before Al Gore invented the internet.
This week, we introduce a new web feature called From the Archives. On a fairly regular basis we’re going to be digging up old, awesome articles you can’t find online—The Stranger was founded in 1991, but our web archives only go back to 1999—and making them available. For now, please enjoy Richter’s “He-Man Jew-Haters Club,” an unbelievable piece of undercover investigative journalism published August 16, 1995, back when this town was even more of a backwater than it is today.
(Props go to Brendan Kiley, who’s done a lot of work on getting this up, and his intern Kris Hambrick, who retyped the thing, and my intern Sam Schick, who found the thing in a box of brittle back issues and thought: Now here’s a great story…).
is that building still there?