Entertain Tucson
The Publishers of "Entertaining Tucson"
Publishing Sources
These local Tucson publications are the sources for the content in "Entertaining Tucson Across the Decades." Volumes 1-3.
The Youth Alternatives
Youth Awareness Press
Tucson Teen
Entertainment Magazine
The first newspaper
published for youth in Tucson was the summer 1979 edition of the "Youth
Alternatives," which became "Youth Awareness Press" the following winter
after public funding for the newspaper ended. The newspapers were
published through the Tucson YWCA from 1978-1980.
The "Tucson Teen"
newspaper continued the concept of a youth newspaper in 1981. The
"Entertainment Magazine" first published in 1985 (it was titled "The
Magazine" until 1985).
The "Entertainment
Magazine" ceased the print edition in January 1995 when it became one of
the first Arizona newspapers to go online as EMOL.org.
The monthly
tabloids were published through the Tucson YWCA until 1981 and then
through Southwest Alternatives Institute, Inc., a non-profit
organization founded in 1977 to support community projects, like the
Foundation for Creative Broadcasting which later became KXCI-FM radio
station, and dozens of other Tucson groups. Robert Zucker served as
director, editor and publisher of all of the newspapers.
The Mountain Newsreal
The Mountain Newsreal
started in 1974 as a monthly alternative culture tabloid by Jonathan L.
(Jon Rosen). It evolved into the popular music magazine, Newsreal.
Jonathan L. His radio career began in Tucson, Arizona in 1982 at KLPX-FM
with a show "Virgin Vinyl" which predates Alternative radio. He left
Tucson in 1986 to start up alternative radio station KEYX-FM. Jonathan L
is an American radio presenter, programmer, and entertainment media
publisher who now lives in Berlin, Germany for the past four years.
Jonathan L organized
his first large music festival for alternative station KUKQ in Phoenix,
Arizona in 1989, years before the launch of festivals like Lollapalooza
and the KROQ Weenie Roasts. For this reason, he is often called the
“father of all radio festivals.” In 2005 he returned form Los Angeles to
create "Lopsided World Of L" which ran on Saturday mornings and Sunday
evenings on KUPD-FM until he moved to Germany in 2010. The "Lopsided
World of L" is produced and presented internationally every week by
Jonathan L from his flat in Berlin, Germany.
Publishers
Robert E. Zucker
Entertainment Magazine
Tucson native Robert E. Zucker,
born in the mid-1950s, has been publishing for nearly four
decades. He launched several Tucson, Arizona tabloid newspapers and
authored dozens of manuscripts that are now being printed and digitized.
While publishing over monthly 200
newspaper editions, between 1978 and 1994, Robert also organized
numerous local entertainment events, concerts, movie screenings and
community projects. Originally hired by the Tucson YWCA in 1977,
Robert developed Youth Alternatives (1978-1979), the first newspaper for Tucson teenagers and continued the publication as Youth Awareness Press (1979-1981). The newspaper was later titled as the Tucson Teen (1981-1990) after the original funding sources ended for the non-profit project. The Magazine (1982-1985) and the Entertainment Magazine (1985-1994) newspapers published for an older audience with a focus on local entertainment and national celebrities.
In January 1995, the Internet version of the Entertainment Magazine On Line (EMOL.org)
was launched as one of the first Arizona publications to have a web
presence. Robert spent a dozen years teaching desktop publishing and web
publishing at the University of Arizona Department of
Journalism (now School of Journalism) and launched the UA
Journalism Department web site (1995). He spent eight years at Pima
Community College as an instructor and adviser for the Aztec Press, the college newspaper. At Pima, he also developed an Internet journalism lab and the online version of the Aztec Press (1998).
Official Websites: http://emol.org/ and http://Robert-Zucker.com
Jonathan L is an
American radio presenter, programmer, and entertainment media publisher
who has lived in Berlin, Germany for the past four years. He published
the Newsreal, an alternative Tucson, Arizona monthly music
publication from the 1970s until October 1985. His radio career began
in Tucson in 1982 at KLPX-FM with a show “Virgin Vinyl“ which predates Alternative radio. He left Tucson in 1986 to start up Alternative radio station KEYX-FM.
Jonathan L organized his
first large music festival for alternative station KUKQ in Phoenix,
Arizona in 1989, years before the launch of festivals like Lollapalooza
and the KROQ Weenie Roasts. For this reason, he is often called the
“father of all radio festivals.” In 2005, he returned form Los Angeles
to create “Lopsided World Of L” which ran on Saturday mornings and
Sunday evenings on KUPD-FM until he moved to Germany in 2010. The
“Lopsided World of L” is produced and presented internationally every
week by Jonathan L from his flat in Berlin, Germany. Now in it’s 9th
year, the “Lopsided World of L” is broadcast across the planet from Los
Angeles, Phoenix, Berlin, Athens, Greece, Gothenburg, Sweden, and
Brasov, Romania.
Jonathan Rosen passed away on September 12, 2024 at age 76.
Official Website: http://www.jlradio.com
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