August 22, 2016
Feast of Symphorian and Timotheus

BIRTHDAYS
Claude Debussy 1862
Ray Bradbury 1920
Paul Ellering 1953

NEW MAGAZINES
All titles below are new to the store but those with a * are also newly published.

*07/29/16 Your Comic Heroes: Facts! Secrets! Quizzes!
*07/28/16 Photo Club presents Teach Yourself Photography: 228 pages of expert photo advice. UK.
*07/26/16 Illustoria: For creative kids & their grown ups.
07/26/16 Tokewell: Stack paper, catch vapors.
07/25/16 Standart: Standing for the art of coffee.

THINGS WE LEARNED FROM READING MAGAZINES TODAY

About 60% of Americans who have been prescribed painkillers in the past year still have leftovers in their homes.
— September Harper’s

The poison in one puffer fish could kill 30 people.
— September Ranger Rick

City Newsstand’s HEADLINE WORLD
As always, 100% T.R.U.E.! (Trumped-up, Reliably Unreliable & Ersatz)

TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE TO BE VISIBLE AT THE NORTH POLE ON CHRISTMAS EVE AT MIDNIGHT!

PRESIDENT GODZILLA? HE’S NOT A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN BUT WHO’S GOING TO TELL HIM?

GROUP OF CLOUDS SHAPED EXACTLY LIKE A SQUADRON OF RUSSIAN ICBMs

CIA SCIENTISTS HAVE DEVELOPED A PALM TREE THAT DROPS EXPLOSIVE COCONUTS

DRIVERS ON RT. 50 IN NV REPORT CARS SWALLOWED BY SHADOW AND NEVER SEEN AGAIN!

Weekly Words of Wisdom

Words to live by: Megafauna, Subterranean, Vermillion.

Fictitious Customer of the Week

Q. Bickle