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NZ Magazines Expands Portfolio

APN News & Media Limited today announced its New Zealand Magazines division has acquired the licence to publish Pacific Magazines’ three core titles in New Zealand.

Confessions of a Money Manager: Time Magazine’s siren call about homeownership

People who write for national magazines are obviously very talented. But are they wise? Time Magazine’s Sept. 6 cover story by Barbara Kiviat, “The Case Against Homeownership,” is well written and very well researched, but her conclusions that homeownership is somehow passé and that the federal government should “wean America off the idea that homeownership cures all ills” seem presumptuous. In ...

Twee Murders Magazines! (500) Days Stars Curse Paste, Jane, Domino

Just before Jane Magazine folded in 2007, it featured Zooey Deschanel on the cover. "I'm always looking for school uniforms, trying to squeeze into kids' clothing," she said in her interview. "It's sort of a party trick, the way I can get myself into tiny dresses." Just before Domino was closed, Ms. Deschanel once again graced the front of one of its last issues. "Bold happy colors," her cover ...

Jennifer Aniston says she's just like us!

Jennifer Aniston has been reassuring fans that she does not always look as picture perfect as she appears on red carpets and in magazines.

Jay Cronley column: Magazines hardly worthy of subscribers

In reviewing expenses, I have come to magazines, the publications to which I subscribe, and the reasons why, as most are up for renewal.

Region wants cardboard boxes compacted

Niagara Region is asking residents to separate smaller cardboard boxes from their newspapers, magazines and other printed paper in their grey boxes. People are encouraged to flatten and stuff smaller boxes like cereal and cracker packages, tightly into larger ones.[...]

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iPad Magazines: The Pros & Cons

When the iPad was launched earlier this year, one of the big talking points was that the iPad might be the savior of magazines . By now many magazines are available on the iPad, either in their own standalone app or in a virtual magazine store. In this post we look at how magazines are using the iPad, what the user experience is like, and what iPad magazines still need to do to improve. We'll ...

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Greg Sullivan , Grainnet editor, joined the Grain Journal’s group of magazines and online media in March, 2008. Not many people know he is the man behind the scenes for many of Grainnet’s electronic news media.

VISTA volunteer renews teen connection at library

LEWISTON —For years, the Lewiston Public Library had little to occupy its teenage patrons aside from books and magazines. There was no program to encourage reading like in its children's room, no organized events to create a sense of community like it did for adults.