“It’s beautiful,” Ms. Normandeau, 69, said on Thursday, admiring her work on the eve of the auction. “With everyone with a smartphone in their ear, it’s harder to give out papers,” Mr. Normandeau said. “I think it helps point to a problem that people just don’t pay attention to,” Mr. Normandeau said. Showers of gunfire and stabbings.”)The most popular edition, Mr. Normandeau recalled proudly, included the headline “Mother Eats Baby Alive,” about a crack addict who bit her child. Updated every couple of days, the website, crude in appearance by today’s standards — “junky,” was Mr. Normandeau’s word — invites readers to inform the Normandeaus about events: “Art show?

Source: New York Times May 22, 2016 10:18 UTC