What about the new cross bikes? They combine features of mountain and touring bikes.
MARRY A MOUNTAIN bike to a touring bike and the offspring looks like a hybrid "cross" bike like the one shown below. It's the newest segment of the cycling market--some estimate up to 10 percent of national sales. This type of bike is becoming popular because it's...

A new baby is born.
For some time now, our French-speaking readers have been asking when a New African French version would be published by IC Publications, the parent company of New African and its sister-magazines, African Business, The Middle East and African Banker. Now you have it--a brand new baby called New African...

The search for 'rootedness' in comtemporary culture.
"It is not industry that makes men restless, but false impressions of things drive them mad." Seneca, On the shortness of life. "Did you know that the increasingly popular pastime of genealogical research--searching out information about our family roots, our past--has become one of our...

Notes & comments: September 2005.
"Oh, to be in England ..." We know what Robert Browning meant. We have long wished that The New Criterion were more readily available in England. Nor are we alone. Writing recently in The Claremont Review, the historian Paul Johnson observed that "One of the cultural treasures...

Long-time reader, first-time writer.
After many years of looking at T$S on newsstands, I finally subscribed a few months ago. Now I am writing to tell you how much I enjoy the magazine. I especially like reading what Howard Ferstler has to say. No other reviewer (in any publication) focuses on...

The magazine racket.
Andy Giordano, general manager of Yankee News - a magazine wholesaler that supplies newsstands throughout Connecticut - approaches magazine Nirvana. With a grand gesture, he sweeps open the door of Greenwich, Connecticut's Avenue News. "This," he says, "is the cream of the crop." Fifty covers form a bright grid...

New paper comes out of the closet.
What the now defunct Gay News Telegraph (GNT) didn't have was money and marketing. But former GNT editor Jim Thomas has filled those voids and is back at his typewriter--this time as editor of the Vital Voice, a new bi-monthly newspaper serving the St. Louis gay and lesbian community....

Internet commerce raises liability concerns.
Editor's note: Part of the following article first appeared in the St. Louis Business Journal. To early users and enthusiasts, being on the Internet five years ago probably felt like flying with the Wright Brothers - exciting, free, uninhibited, risky and unpredictable. To users today, surfing the Internet may...

America out of doors.
The high desert country of Washington state is bordered on the east by the soaring peaks of the Cascade Range. Artist and illustrator John Clymer grew up in this rugged area of humbling landscapes and inspiring views that later became the source for some of his most memorable Saturday...

Development of Latin music in New York City: lecture at UCLA.
On August 21, 1995,A Professor Stevena of the Department of Ethnomusicology, and author of Barrio Rhythms, Mexican American Music in Los Angeles, was in New York. We met to discuss the information he marshalled for his book about the life and music of Tito Puente. It was at this time...