Metroland (newspaper)

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Metroland
The August 3, 2006 (vol 29 number 31) cover of Metroland featuring The Luxury Flats
Type	Alternative weekly
Format	Tabloid

Owner	Independent
Publisher	Stephen Leon
Editor	Stephen Leon
Founded	1978
Language	English
Price	Free
Headquarters	419 Madison Ave. Albany, NY 12210 United States
Circulation	40,000^[1]

Website: metroland.net

Metroland is an alternative newspaper that is published weekly in Albany, New York and mainly serves the Capital District area. Distributed free of charge, the paper offers local arts and music scene coverage, news and feature articles, and political columns with a mostly liberal bent. It bills itself as "The Capital Region's Alternative Newsweekly".

Every week, Metroland includes an opinion column, several local news stories, a cover story, and a comprehensive calendar of events (with a movie clock). In addition, it publishes reviews of movies, restaurants, concerts, recordings, art exhibitions, dance performances, and plays. Metroland columnists include Paul Rapp, Miriam Axel-Lute, and Jo Page. Regular syndicated features include This Modern World, Savage Love, Partially Clips, Slowpoke, Free Will Astrology, and the Advice Goddess. The paper also publishes special features such as "Best of the Capital Region", Readers Poll, fashion issues, dining guides, and "Inside Saratoga".

Metroland is edited and published by Stephen Leon and was founded in 1978 by Peter Iselin. It is in its thirtieth year of publication (as of April 2007). The newspaper is published by Lou Communications, Inc. and is a member of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies.