QUIZ:
MOVIES & MAGAZINES Sure,
we all know that Vanity Fair is a movie, but what other magazines share
their titles with movies?
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COOL THINGS TO DO WITH BLOW-IN CARDS Don't
get mad -- Get creative!
CITY NEWSSTAND'S 25TH ANNIVERSARY PARTY Pictures
from this milestone celebration.
CITY
OF CHICAGO HONORS CITY NEWSSTAND The
Chicago City Council has passed a resolution honoring City Newsstand's
25-year service to the readers of Chicago. Read it here.
CITY
NEWSSTAND CELEBRATES ITS 25TH ANNIVERSARY A
quarter of a century ago Joe Angelastri bought a corner newsstand and over
the years it grew into the two largest newsstands in Chicagoland. Plus:
The Mayor of Six Corners and THINGS WE LEARNED BY SELLING
MAGAZINES.
TOP
TEN TABLOID HEADLINES OF 2002 The
year's ten best, plus a few honorable mentions, once again with critical
analysis by Mike Oelrich.
WHAT'S
YOUR MAGAZINE QUOTIENT?
Are you a Magazine Maven or a
Periodical Poseur? Ten questions to test how well you know your
magazines.
TOP
TEN TABLOID HEADLINES OF 2001 The
year's ten best, with critical analysis by Mike
Oelrich!
HISTORIC
NEWSSTAND REOPENS is the story
of the reopening of the historic Chicago-Main Newsstand.
TRAVELING
BY MAGAZINE explains the
benefits of being an armchair traveler.
MAGAZINES
101 -- A GLOSSARY OF TERMS presents
definitions for several magazine industry terms.
CELEBRITY
MAGAZINES THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN
speculates on how the history of
magazines might have been different, had publishers come up with the idea
of celebrity magazines like O and Mary-Kate and Ashley a
little earlier . . .
STRANGE PHENOMENA is a collection of some of the more interesting oddities from our
occasional feature, the Top 5 Strange Phenomena.
ODE TO A NEWSSTAND In which our editor waxes poetic about his love for this
disappearing institution.
THE TOP TEN REASONS WHY
MAGAZINES ARE BETTER THAN BOOKS is a
facetious look at the differences in two popular mediums.
DEPARTMENTS
THINGS WE LEARNED WHILE READING MAGAZINES
is exactly that. A compendium of
interesting factoids we've acquired while indulging ourselves with our own stock.
TOP TEN TABLOID HEADLINES
is a feature we do every month wherein we
salute the geniuses who pen those attention-getting toppers for America's best newspapers
-- the supermarket tabloids.
[THINGS WE LEARNED] [TOP
TEN TABLOID HEADLINES] [STRANGE
PHENOMENA]
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