Next issue of Lenawee out soon
The Summer 2009 issue of Lenawee
The next issue of Lenawee, the Telegram’s quarterly lifestyle magazine, will be out in a little over a week.
Stories include a look at higher education in Lenawee County, a profile of Siena Heights University’s Doug Miller, and a Q&A with the founder of American Dream Furniture. And as always, our photographers have done beautiful work.
EdibleWOW
The spring 2009 issue of EdibleWOW
This week, The Magazine Rack reviews EdibleWOW, a magazine all about local food in southeast Michigan.
Erika Aylward at the Boulevard Market in Tecumseh introduced me to this magazine about a year ago. It’s part of a string of magazines founded by a company called Edible Communities, but appropriately, it’s run on a franchise model, meaning all of the titles are locally owned.
The people who run EdibleWOW do a great job: interesting content and a clean design, printed on a nice matte stock that fits well with its purpose and theme.
Edible Communities now has about 50 titles, and I notice that with the addition of Edible Cape Cod and Edible Iowa River Valley, every area I’ve ever lived in has a franchise of its own.
The Magazine Rack
One of my favorite features on MediaPost is The Magazine Rack, a weekly (or so) blog in which three alternating authors critique a wide range of magazines, from the biggest national general-interest periodicals to the narrowest niche publications.
It’s a great way to discover (and rediscover) interesting titles: This post, for instance, led me to two local newsstands to pick up not one, but two recent issues of the featured magazine — partly because I wanted to read one of the articles the review mentioned, and partly because Psychology Today is so consistently interesting that it seemed like a worthwhile buy. Another recent post features Saveur, one of the best food magazines out there.
If you love magazines, browsing through the Magazine Rack’s archives is well worth the time.