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CONTENTS
Things We Learned
Top Ten Tabloid Headlines
Historic Newsstand Reopens
Traveling by Magazine
Magazines 101 -- a Glossary of Terms
Celebrity Magazines That Might Have Been

Strange Phenomena

Ode to a Newsstand
Why Magazines Are Better Than Books

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Chicagoland's Source for Magazine News

FEATURES

QUIZ: MOVIES & MAGAZINES Sure, we all know that Vanity Fair is a movie, but what other magazines share their titles with movies? 

11 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.


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