Newspaper Article

THERE'S MUCH TO EXPLORE, ESPECIALLY NEW IDEAS

Duryea, Bill

2014

Overview

The magazine in your hand begins in a casual morning meeting held many days, even weeks ago. In a room that looks west over a crumbling YMCA and south toward a rising apartment complex, writers, photographers and editors share what's on their minds. It's an idea factory, but it's more like the place where hurricanes are born off the African coast than a Detroit assembly line. One writer's observation rises on the updraft of a colleague's encouragement, begins to spin harder when it encounters some cooling skepticism, and soon a story is born. Or sometimes the conversation just spins intensely, briefly, like a water spout, vivid only for those close enough to catch a glimpse. Someone wondered if Twitch was any more dispiriting to contemplate than golf on TV, or the Food Network. One man's feed is another man's aversion, I suppose. I've stomped my foot plenty of times at my sons' zombie-eyed video game fixation, and plenty of times I've put my feet up to catch the last holes of a golf major. For slack-jawed passivity, I can't see much difference between the two.

• Publisher: Times Publishing Company