I wrote about the lost world of alt-weeklies, papers that loved cities *as* cities, for my splendid local alt-daily, Daybreak. “The first time I saw a stranger’s corpse was one summer night, 1992…” news.daybreak.news/p/enthusiasm...

The plot of every '80s family movie is some asshole with an expensive haircut is going to tear down the community center where cool stuff happens and everybody bands together to run him out of town, and I wish we had done a better job of internalizing that