Fun at The East Bay Express

For what it’s worth, I miss Stephen. We had daily contact and his drive is contagious.

Metro Pulse – I wish we had the time, energy, and photogenic qualities to do stuff like this:

The East Bay Express in Oakland is one of my favorite alt-weeklies; it’s really well written and they do stuff like run Sarah Palin songwriting contests. A few years ago, editor Stephen Buel managed to actually buy back his paper from former corporate overlord Village Voice Media. (Plus, back when I was living there, he let me write up some winners in their “Best of the East Bay” poll, though I was by no means an expert on local culture.)

The video is great fun, and the answer to the newspaper industry’s woes is not surprising.