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With May 6 fast approaching, Better Brunch is finally at the printer. We're touching up our circulation materials, hashing out our final presentation and trying to figure out just how we're going to make our iPad presentation look somewhat unique. 

As soon as I can, I'll be posting the pdfs and the link to the magazine's website (one word. Thanks, @APStyleBook!).  

Above is a mock-cover. We ended up shooting one our department stories and because the photos turned out so well, they'll be on the final cover. Also, the sell-lines have been altered significantly. 

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From Emily Nussbaum's feature on The Wire's David Simon in this week's New York Magazine. Nussbaum asks him twice why he doesn't dabble in documentary film, considering his shows often blend truth with fiction. In an e-mail, this is his final response:

“We know more about what Huey Long represented and the emptiness at the core of American political culture from reading Robert Penn Warren than from contemporary journalistic accounts of Long’s reign. We know more about human pride, purpose, and obsession from Moby-Dick than from any contemporaneous account of the Nantucket whaler that was actually struck and sunk by a whale in the nineteenth-century incident on which Melville based his book. And we know how much of an affront the Spanish Civil War was to the human spirit when we stare at Picasso’s Guernica than when we read a more deliberate, fact-based account. I am not comparing anything I’ve done to any of the above; please, please do not presume that because I cite someone else’s art, I claim anything similar for anything I’ve done. But I cite the above because it makes the answer to your question obvious: Picasso said art is the lie that allows us to see the truth. That is it exactly.”
 
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They both make any outfit look amazing (as Rocha demonstrates with that ridiculous bow), they've been extremely successful while still maintaining a strong sense of self-worth that can be inferred just by reading their interviews and Twitter feeds. Though they're both veterans in their industry, I hope they'll be around for a lot longer.
 
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This week our capstone professor has informed us that we'll get to acquaint ourselves with the magazine department's very own iPads! Hooray! In addition, we're going to try to come up with a way to make a Better Brunch iPad plan to present to Meredith, including advertisers and specialized content.

I share in the NYTimes' David Carr's enthusiasm for utility of the poorly-named tablet, and can't wait to test it out.