![]() ![]() This venerable publication of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has continued to evolve and illuminate since its premier premiere issue in November 1910 (one year after the creation of the NAACP). With its mouth-watering food articles ("Best Places To Boat to Dinner") and other hyper-local editorial, Traverse is beloved by visitors and residents alike. This little-magazine-that-could is as breathtakingly gorgeous as the region it covers: the environs around Traverse City in northern Michigan - a go-to summer spot for Midwesterners. If you want to get lost in a great yarn about celebrity, crime, or the arts, this is the place to go. The smartest city in America gets the magazine it deserves, chock-full of high-end gossip, up-to-the moment cultural coverage and good old-fashioned street reporting. Education, immigration, conservation, and, of course, corruption, are analyzed regularly in lively, well-informed articles on the state of our state. Not just a magazine for policy wonks, Illinois Issues deciphers Springfield legislation for all constituents in the Land of Lincoln. A towering act of stretching next to nothing across 15 years - and 83 issues. Awe-inspiring in its scope and obsessiveness - 100-plus quarterly pages of (unintentionally hilarious) creative writing about radioactive fire-breathing pituitary cases, profiles of D-list actors who barely remember the movies they're being interviewed for, grandiose evaluations of Martian conquerors in Asian cinema. Plus, the poetry of column titles, like such as one on freeing car-crash victims: University of Extrication. ![]() It's for all those who never got over the boyish childish impulse to chase the engines but no longer have the energy to leap up when the sirens wail. But the magazine is still a great forum for the best in sports journalism writing, and the glossy pages offer detailed display for its typically stunning photography. Sure, the loss of veteran scribe Rick Reilly from the back pages is still being felt. Conde Nast announced it will cease publishing Golf for Women after the July/August issue (this sentence has been added to this text). ![]() Thankfully, Golf for Women burst onto the scene, bringing a ponytail-swinging style and sass to its instruction, fashion and travel articles. #Music shelf magazine manualIt has informative reviews on gear and clothing, and engaging stories on the cycling lifestyle.įor years, women golfers had to settle for male-oriented magazines such as Golf Digest - and articles with all the pizzazz of a cell-phone manual ("Trevor Immelman Swing Sequence"). Founder Larry Crane of Portland's Jackpot Studios snags engaging interviews with music's top studio wizards - one of whom might just answer your letter seeking advice on that basement recording rig.Įver wish you could join the spandex Mafia at work? You know, cyclist commuters stuffed into that sausage-casing-like stretch material with extra padding in the rear? Well, Bicycling magazine is a great ways to get you started. ![]() This glossy, classy celebration of recording counts Pete Townshend, Steve Albini and Joe Chiccarelli (the namesake of Frank Zappa's "Joe's Garage") as fans. Music reviews remain less fork-in-the-eye hip than, and few magazines feature interviews as in-depth and strong (see: Barack Obama). It has kept not only its broad format, but its broad appeal: a cover with the aging Eagles one week, then the underwear-clad girls women from "The Hills" the next. In the age of the Ever Shrinking Magazine, Rolling Stone looms large. The house organ of the Metropolitan Opera Guild tends to fawn over divas and sometimes is Manhattan-centric, but, month to month, there is no more informative or comprehensive guide to what's going on in the world of opera. ![]()
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