According to an article on AVN (Adult Video News) Online, the San Francisco-based adult tabloid closed largely because of "growing competition for sexual advertising from several local freebie papers such as the Bay Guardian, SF Weekly and the East Bay Express, as well as similar ads on the Internet." Spectator originally formed as an offshoot of the Berkeley Barb, an underground newspaper founded in 1967. Needless to say, this link may be NSFW.
