RE:RE:Overstory Media acquires The Georgia StraightCurious to know how much Overstory paid the receiver for rights to the
Straight. This is the same outfit that bought the Halifax alt-weekly,
The Coast, a little while back. It wouldn't cost much for Overstory to lump the sorry remnants of
Now Toronto into this pile of soggy refuse. So, Brain Knish's dream of consolidating alt-weeklies seems to have come true for someone else... and probably for a lot less dough than Brain Knish was qualified to pay.
The remaining questions, of course, are:
(1) Why on earth would anyone bother to buy these things?
(2) Has that undesirable alien Uncle Kirk MacDonald been deported from Canada yet?