Last Sunday, a day of NFL games on TV, the greatest magazine store in the Midwest, if not the entire country, was open for business, and a man and a small girl came in from the cold.

“Look, honey, they have the Nikkei Weekly and Le Monde,” said the man.

“Un-huh,” said the little girl, heading straight for some comic books. read more →

Mike Oelrich is strolling through the aisles of City Newsstand, cleaning up the racks and putting stray magazines back in their places when something catches his eye. “Oh, look at that!” he says, reaching into the shelves to run his fingers over five thick holographic “The Hobbit”-themed issues of Empire, a monthly British film magazine that City Newsstand imports. “This is what we need more of.” – See more at: http://lit.newcity.com/2013/03/07/magazine-junkies-print-thrives-at-city-newsstand/#sthash.jkUsQPdy.dpuf read more →