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Emmis Communications, owner of Los Angeles magazine, is no longer a player in the bidding to buy New York, Keith J. Kelly reports in the NY Post. But Village Voice Media, owner of the LA Weekly, is. Harvey Weinstein of Miramax is said to be hanging around the edges of the sale.
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