The Weekly Newspaper & Punk Rock Flea Market: Old New Castle's Creative Scene

This week on That Delaware Podcast, we're still on location at The Sycamore Wine Bar in Old New Castle, sitting down with Amanda, editor of The Weekly newspaper, to talk local journalism, community, and the underground arts scene taking root in this historic town.

Amanda shares how The Weekly remains one of the few independently owned, print-first community newspapers left in the state after Delaware lost its last independent newspaper printer earlier this year. We get into why print still matters, from the permanence of local archives to keeping older generations and former residents connected to home, and how younger readers are gravitating back toward slower, more intentional media. Amanda also opens up about her winding path from photography school to marketing to landing at the paper, and how the New Castle community rallied around her family during a job loss and a home sale all at once.

We also dig into the Underground Arts Alliance, a new nonprofit Amanda co-founded to support local artists and musicians, and the Punk Rock Flea Market she helped bring to Old Town Hall, which drew nearly a thousand Instagram followers within 48 hours of launching. We talk about why Delaware's creative infrastructure, from DCAD to local music venues, has been disappearing, and why spaces like this matter more than ever for young artists.

If you love local journalism, supporting the arts, or hearing how a small town builds community from the ground up, this episode is for you.

In This Episode

• Meet Amanda, editor of The Weekly newspaper
• Why print journalism still matters in a digital world
• Delaware losing its last independent newspaper printer
• The permanence and value of physical newspaper archives
• Amanda's path from photography to marketing to journalism
• How the New Castle community rallied around her family
• What it means to be a "villager" in a small town
• The Underground Arts Alliance and its mission
• The Punk Rock Flea Market at Old Town Hall
• The decline of Delaware's art schools and music venues
• Balancing social media with real, in-person community
• Carrying multitudes: being professional and being yourself

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Website
undergroundartsalliance.org

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Thanks for tuning in to another episode of That Delaware Podcast. We'll see you next time.