Culture
One Alt-Weekly Dies, and Another Emerges
When Baltimore lost its 40-year-old newspaper, former staffers scrambled to start a brand-new one—in print, no less.
On Wednesday morning, citizens of Maryland’s largest city awoke to true novelty: the first issue of brand-new alternative weekly newspaper—in print.
The Baltimore Beat is looking to replace the City Paper, which published its last issue on November 1, after a 40-year run. The hardly-missing-a-beat arrival of the Beat means that Baltimore experienced but two weeks without an alt-weekly of some kind, dating back to when Jimmy Carter was in the White House and the Baltimore Colts were in the playoffs.