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Alt Weekly Goes Quietly After Serving The Inland Empire for 8 Years

By Mark Hanzlik, AWN Executive Director

There was no official press release from Southland Publishing, Inc. confirming the closure of Inland Empire Weekly on January 30.     The 8-year-old alternative weekly quietly published their final issue with a colorful cover story about Pink Martini, the wildly diverse Portland-based band.

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IE Weekly with 30,000 distribution had served a large geographic area (San Bernardino-Riverside-Ontario metro area) with nearly 3.8 million residents.   Publisher Jeremy Zachary commented briefly before the final issue hit the streets,  citing lack of advertising revenue as the main reason for IEW‘s demise.

Zachary and Managing Editor Rich Kane started the alt weekly in 2006, but quickly sold the newspaper to Southland Publishing, Inc. which at the time published four other alt weeklies including LA CityBeat and four monthly magazines.   IEW was based in Corona, California where Zachary continues as publisher of Culture, a monthly magazine covering entertainment and lifestyle in the medical cannabis community.

Southland Publishing, Inc. currently publishes four weekly newspapers; Pasadena Weekly, Ventura County Reporter, The Argonaut and San Diego CityBeat.   They also publish three monthly magazines; Arroyo Monthly, Ventana Monthly and So. California Life After 50.