City Limits (London magazine)

City Limits magazine was an alternative weekly event listings and arts magazine for London, founded in 1981 by former staff members of the weekly London listings magazine Time Out, after its owner Tony Elliott abandoned running Time Out on its original equal pay principles.

City Limits

Former editors	John Fordham, Nigel Fountain
Categories	Arts magazine
Frequency	Weekly
Founded	1981
Final issue	1993
Country	United Kingdom
Based in	London, England
Language	English
ISSN	0262-2505
OCLC	317546106

City Limits was edited in its prime by jazz writer John Fordham and former Oz writer Nigel Fountain. The magazine continued to be run as a co-operative for most of its existence, then underwent a chaotic final period of three owners within two years before it finally ceased publication in 1993.^[1][2] Among other journalists, it launched the careers of Melissa Benn, Kim Newman and Suzanne Moore. It was also an early site for the writings of Matt Preston and the art critic Matthew Collings.^[1][3]