The News printed its last edition on Friday, March 27, 1992. Twenty years later, on Saturday, 21, 2012, the complete catastrophe of hacks, flacks, hangers-on, bas-beens, shoulda-beens and sentimentalists is converging on The Strathmore Hotel on North Terrace, Adelaide, to prove that The News may be gone, but is never forgotten - except for those superfluous braincells that we've jettisoned in bars along the way.
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