Media: Who dares buy Bare?: With the future of Bare, John Brown's alternative lifestyle magazine, increasingly uncertain, Jessica Hodgson asks whether there is a market for its unique brand of life-affirming psychobabble
As women traded in the chardonnay and Marlboro Lights for grapefruit and yoga, John Brown Publishing launched Bare, a "wellbeing" magazine, last summer. Edited by former Elle Decoration editor Ilse Crawford, Bare wraps up articles about nutrition, lifestyle and alternative therapies in a gorgeous art-book design. Bare speaks the earnest psychobabble of the Hampstead eco-hypochondriac: "This is a horizontal magazine, connecting different areas - just...
Alternative Lifestyle Magazine: Remembering AIDS victims different ways
No words were needed. The astonished look said it all. The retiree approached the community information booth at Gulfview Square mall and picked up a small square of paper with a safety pin and red ribbon attached.The slip of paper asked people to wear the ribbon over their heart and explained why.The woman examined it momentarily."You can wear the ribbon," urged Barbara Cushman. "It's for AIDS awareness."...
Alternative Lifestyle Magazine: Western Morning News: Meeting was 'foretold'
Just weeks before she was killed by her husband, Linda Hien wrote about how she fell in love with him after travelling to his native country of Burkina Faso to learn more about African tribal beliefs.Writing for an alternative lifestyle magazine, Linda described meeting Hien, a shaman, known as a witch doctor in the West, in Dano, his home village. She was evidently transfixed by his healing talents and his avowal that he had foreseen that he would one day meet a woman from the West. She...