The Good Fight

is measured in how many malefactors they pissed off, Jim Ridgeway’s time on earth was successful beyond words. In a career—really, a commitment—that spanned six decades of what we used to call the alternative press, Jim was a fierce, cantankerous, unstoppable embodiment of the reporter’s mandate to afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted. We were fortunate to call him a colleague for five years here at , and when he died in February, it felt like yet another weight on the pile of loss accumulated this past