The Weekly will join The Mountain View Voice and The Almanac in a new three-story building built and owned by parent company Embarcadero Media later this month. "The new building boasts energy-efficient and other environmental features that will make it among the 'greenest' buildings in the area," the Voice reports. READ MORE about the building in a 2008 story in the Weekly.

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"Independents were repeatedly ahead of the curve on covering the mortgage and real estate bubble and in connecting the dots between vital elements of the bigger story," former City Limits editor Alyssa Katz writes on CJR.org. So how did indie magazines and alt-weeklies do it? Katz offers three main reasons: The reporting focused on "the real-world impacts of business practices" and was based "out in the real world," while reporters were "free (and predisposed) to question authority, not to mention the basic business practices of large financial institutions."

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Bay, who is best known for big-budget action flicks like Transformers and Armageddon, is working on Pain & Gain, a feature he is adapting from a series of Miami New Times stories on steroid-abusing bodybuilders who become criminals. According to an update on Bay's official website over the weekend, the film "is looking very possible."

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