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Uprooting
the Onion
Maybe it was this recent headline — "Tenth
Circle Added to Rapidly Growing Hell" — that
prompted the editors of the Onion
to contemplate their own ever-more-bulbous enterprise.
The satiric newspaper, which has been a Madison institution
for more than a decade, has done what many feared it
would eventually do: outgrown its home turf and left
its Madison offices for new digs in New York City.
Started
by two students in 1988, the Onion has grown
from a campus cult hit to a national humor enterprise,
sprouting books, merchandise, radio spots, and Hollywood
film deals. But fans of the newspaper's Midwestern flavor
shouldn't fear — at least not yet. "We have
not sold out," editor Robert Siegel told the New
York Times. "That's scheduled for November
2002."
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