CITY MAGAZINE Page One April 2007 Vol. 3, Issue 18 BIG NEWS  CITY WINS NATIONAL MAGAZINE AWARD! When filmmaker John Waters hands you an award, you know you're doing something right. CITY magazine won the National Magazine Award for Best Photo Portfolio last night, taking home the Ellie for Horacio Salinas' stunning fashion story, 'White Heat,' published in CITY's April 2006 issue. CITY was nominated twice in the new category, with photographer Kenji Toma's 'Penitentiary,' published in the 2006 Spring Fashion issue, joining 'White Heat' as one of five finalists. CITY beat out Vogue (Annie Leibowitz), W (Bruce Weber), and Details (Michael Thompson) to win its second-ever National Magazine Award. In 2004, CITY captured the Best Photography award. “When it comes to creative photography, CITY magazine competes on another level,' Waters, a presenter, told an audience of 1,000 editors, publishers, and magazine insiders at the American Society of Magazine Editors' annual awards gala, held at New York's Jazz at Lincoln Center Tuesday night. 'In 'White Heat,’ Horacio Salinas plays with the very idea of what a fashion shoot can be,' Waters said. 'A series of clever contrasts—black and white, industrial and delicate, iconic and ethereal—turn a few items of clothing into a simple, graceful, and fully realized artistic vision.' Creative Director Fabrice Frere accepted the award for CITY. 'It's great to see that ASME still champions independent publishers and publications like CITY along with the big boys and girls of publishing,' Frere said. To see the winning and nominated stories, go to www.city-magazine.com/asme07 ALSO OF NOTE 826 National, the educational offshoot of McSweeney's—a fellow 2007 National Magazine Award winner—has some exciting kids workshops happening on both coasts in the next week. Sunday, May 5, sees 826 Valencia in San Francisco host Tween/Teen Autobiographies—Write About Your Life for 11 to 14 year olds, while 826 NYC assembles futuristic minds for Booktron: Pop-Up Robots, where kids from 8 to 11 can expand their imaginations by writing and illustrating their dream robots, each to be featured in an original pop-up book. Go to www.826valencia.org and www.826nyc.org Beirut, AKA Zach Condon, is a ukelele-strumming and accordion-squeezing sensation currently commanding the attention of the NYC music biz following his bedroom-recorded album Gulag Orkestar. To satisfy demand, he's playing three nights at the Bowery Ballroom with fellow one-man-band—and Arcade Fire moonlighter—Final Fantasy. Appearing May 6, 7, and 8, each night is hosted by MTV as part of their URGE Nights series. Tickets for each night are $16. Go to www.ticketweb.com The 8-lens LOMO Oktomat is one of many cool toys available at Colorado-based shop Composition. Shooting 8 frames at 2.5 second intervals the end result creates unique vingettes. We can't promise you a photograpy award, but if you enter our competition, below, well, you never know... Go to www.shopcomposition.com Want to see your photo on the cover of a National Magazine Award–winning magazine? Our ONE CITY, MANY DESTINATIONS™ travel photography competition boasts the ultimate grand prize: CITY Magazine's cover shot. Amateur and professional photographers from around the world are invited to submit images for juried competition and a chance at landing on the cover of CITY's Fall '07 Travel issue, on sale September 25, 2007. Photographers are asked to submit images that best capture the essence of a city or other travel destination. Along with the cover shot for the grand-prize winner, there are fantastic prizes for selected runners-ups, as well as a special Photographers' Choice Award. To find out more, and to enter, go to www.city-magazine.com/photocontest Longtime CITY contributor Greg Lindsay is spending the next six months on the road reporting for his forthcoming book, Aerotropolis (John D. Kasarda and Greg Lindsay; Farrar, Straus and Giroux). In his new exclusive CITY Magazine blog, IN TRANSIT, he's filing dispatches along the way, covering the best hotels, restaurants, gear, and airlines the world's 'airport cities' have to offer. Check out his latest entries at www.city-magazine.com/intransit
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April 2007 Vol. 3, Issue 18
BIG NEWS  CITY WINS NATIONAL MAGAZINE AWARD!
When filmmaker John Waters hands you an award, you know you're doing something right. CITY magazine won the National Magazine Award for Best Photo Portfolio last night, taking home the Ellie for Horacio Salinas' stunning fashion story, "White Heat," published in CITY's April 2006 issue. CITY was nominated twice in the new category, with photographer Kenji Toma's "Penitentiary," published in the 2006 Spring Fashion issue, joining "White Heat" as one of five finalists. CITY beat out Vogue (Annie Leibovitz), W (Bruce Weber), and Details (Michael Thompson) to win its second-ever National Magazine Award. In 2004, CITY captured the Best Photography award.

“When it comes to creative photography, CITY magazine competes on another level," Waters, a presenter, told an audience of 1,000 editors, publishers, and magazine insiders at the American Society of Magazine Editors' annual awards gala, held at New York's Jazz at Lincoln Center Tuesday night. "In 'White Heat,’ Horacio Salinas plays with the very idea of what a fashion shoot can be," Waters said. "A series of clever contrasts—black and white, industrial and delicate, iconic and ethereal—turn a few items of clothing into a simple, graceful, and fully realized artistic vision." Creative Director Fabrice Frere accepted the award for CITY. "It's great to see that ASME still champions independent publishers and publications like CITY along with the big boys and girls of publishing," Frere said. To see the winning and nominated stories, go to www.city-magazine.com/asme07
ALSO OF NOTE
826 National, the educational offshoot of McSweeney's—a fellow 2007 National Magazine Award winner—has some exciting kids workshops happening on both coasts in the next week. Sunday, May 5, sees 826 Valencia in San Francisco host Tween/Teen Autobiographies—Write About Your Life for 11 to 14 year olds, while 826 NYC assembles futuristic minds for Booktron: Pop-Up Robots, where kids from 8 to 11 can expand their imaginations by writing and illustrating their dream robots, each to be featured in an original pop-up book.
Go to www.826valencia.org and www.826nyc.org

Beirut, AKA Zach Condon, is a ukelele-strumming and accordion-squeezing sensation currently commanding the attention of the NYC music biz following his bedroom-recorded album Gulag Orkestar. To satisfy demand, he's playing three nights at the Bowery Ballroom with fellow one-man-band—and Arcade Fire moonlighter—Final Fantasy. Appearing May 6, 7, and 8, each night is hosted by MTV as part of their URGE Nights series. Tickets for each night are $16. Go to www.ticketweb.com
The 8-lens LOMO Oktomat is one of many cool toys available at Colorado-based shop Composition. Shooting 8 frames at 2.5 second intervals the end result creates unique vingettes. We can't promise you a photograpy award, but if you enter our competition, below, well, you never know...
Go to www.shopcomposition.com
Want to see your photo on the cover of a National Magazine Award–winning magazine? Our ONE CITY, MANY DESTINATIONS™ travel photography competition boasts the ultimate grand prize: CITY Magazine's cover shot. Amateur and professional photographers from around the world are invited to submit images for juried competition and a chance at landing on the cover of CITY's Fall '07 Travel issue, on sale September 25, 2007. Photographers are asked to submit images that best capture the essence of a city or other travel destination. Along with the cover shot for the grand-prize winner, there are fantastic prizes for selected runners-ups, as well as a special Photographers' Choice Award. To find out more, and to enter, go to www.city-magazine.com/photocontest
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Longtime CITY contributor Greg Lindsay is spending the next six months on the road reporting for his forthcoming book, Aerotropolis (John D. Kasarda and Greg Lindsay; Farrar, Straus and Giroux). In his new exclusive CITY Magazine blog, IN TRANSIT, he's filing dispatches along the way, covering the best hotels, restaurants, gear, and airlines the world's "airport cities" have to offer. Check out his latest entries at www.city-magazine.com/intransit
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