Do you remember the very first time you laid eyes on Suede magazine? I surely do! At the time I was fresh out of college and the magazine just spoke to me in ways I tried to supplement with other mags before it. Or remember when Honey was still in print? I used to love Continue Reading
After 14 years Trace Magazine is closing its doors, signing off with a Brazil themed issue: Visit Trace212.com for a series of colorful articles, and a tribute to Trace by Editor-in-Chief Claude Grunitzky. The Editor’s Note begins with this quote by Mochodo de Assis, “Everything comes to an end, reader. It is an old truism Continue Reading
In sad news, urban music mainstay Vibe Magazine folded today: Another victim of the recession, the title has definitively closed its doors. An article in Daily Finance says, “Vibe enjoyed significant success in the late ’90s and early part of this decade as hip hop and R&B became the nation’s predominant forms of pop music. Continue Reading
Jezebel reports that newsstand sales for magazines are decreasing: They say, “The decline is generally blamed on the rise of the internet (duh). Most magazines put a portion of their content on the web, and apparently there are some blogs that post all the juicy bits from magazines online. But recent figures suggest it isn’t Continue Reading
Happy Wednesday! So today, instead of looking at trends or talking about fabulous peeps I see on the streets, I decided to do a little tribute to Vibe Vixen Magazine, which recently folded. Just as I poured out a little licquor for Suede… I felt it was only only fitting to mourn the death of Continue Reading
“There is a frustration in what we do…In a sense, there is not a road, not a path, that we go down… We can’t just sell the magazine. We have to sell the audience. We have to explain that our audience buys things, that they are valuable. It’s just plain dollars and sense.”– Michelle Ebanks, Continue Reading
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