{"podcast":{"title":"RacketCast","slug":"racketcast-7015734","podcast_index_feed_id":7015734,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/66e37617547e9546dfc561ed","website_url":"https://racketmn.com","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/cover/1726182892345-5e16c0b2-7e89-4f4a-a132-2e8c4cacc4f7.jpeg","author":"Racket","episode_count":57,"summary":"Bi-weekly podcast from Racket, the Twin Cities news/arts/culture publication. Featuring hyper-local recaps, reviews, interviews, debates, hot takes, and more from the crew behind your favorite reader-funded, worker-owned media org. Want to advertise on RacketCast ? Email us at advertise@racketmn.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-25T18:19:17.550217+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/racketcast-7015734"},"episode":{"title":"The Surprising Afterlife of Alt-Weeklies Feat. Journalists Tricia Romano & Emma Silvers","slug":"the-surprising-afterlife-of-alt-weeklies-feat-journalists-tricia-romano-emma-silvers","published_at":"2025-09-19T20:01:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/racketcast-7015734/the-surprising-afterlife-of-alt-weeklies-feat-journalists-tricia-romano-emma-silvers","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/racketcast-7015734","url":"https://racketmn.com","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/66e37617547e9546dfc561ed/e/68cdb67b146cfd1a65449c68/media.mp3","summary":"Alt-weeklies: The four Racket founders/editors used to work at one, City Pages, before Star Tribune Media Co. flushed it and its 40-plus-year legacy down the tubes five years ago. And that fate more or less mirrors what's happening nationally with those spirited, smart, and sharp-elbowed publications that once covered news, arts, and culture all across this increasingly stupid land. So last year when Tricia Romero, former editor-in-chief of The Stranger, released The Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture , we were intrigued. And this week when Emma Silvers, an ex editor at SF Weekly, released this deep dive into alt-weeklies for her exciting new worker-owned publication, Coyote, we were doubly intrigued. Here's hoping all that intrigues you, because we—Racket's Jay, Jessica, and Keith—got Romero and Silvers on the line to talk for over an hour about the history, death, and possible new life of the scrappy little style of journalism we all love. But first! Here are the stories we gabbed about during What I Learned In Racket... Fall Arts Guide 2025 At the Palace, Rilo Kiley Reminds Adults What They’ve Lived Through This episode of  RacketCast  is brought to you by Minneapolis Cultural Districts . Subscribe to  RacketCast  wherever you get your podcasts—Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Pocket Casts, etc.  •  Wanna  advertise  on  RacketCast ? Email us at  advertise@racketmn.com .  •  Have a food/drink, event, or show recommendation? How about a civic hot take? General or specific question? Call 619-RACKTIP (619-722-5847) with your first name + city + 3-min.-maximum voicemail, and we might play it on a future episode.  •&n…","meta_description":"Alt-weeklies: The four Racket founders/editors used to work at one, City Pages, before Star Tribune Media Co. flushed it and its 40-plus-year legacy down…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4226,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/racketcast-7015734/episodes/the-surprising-afterlife-of-alt-weeklies-feat-journalists-tricia-romano-emma-silvers/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/racketcast-7015734/the-surprising-afterlife-of-alt-weeklies-feat-journalists-tricia-romano-emma-silvers.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}