Party animals: According to Ashley McGreachy Fox who is covering the Olympics for the Philadelphia Inquirer, the best ticket in Athens is one that gets you into a Sports Illustrated party. “They are off the charts,” she writes.

Quote:

Thursday night’s was No. 2 of four pricey bashes the magazine will throw for its advertisers and selected guests during the Games. Held at the Akrotiri Lounge in the southern part of Greece, the event began at 9 p.m. and ended at 4 a.m.

How magazines get started, continued: Working my way through a couple-hundred non-spam e-mails, I ran across an e-mail about an article in the Nashville City Paper about someone who is launching a vaporzine called BID and it’s not about auctions. It’s a magazine for prison inmates, their friends and their families. Samir says someone else has been there, done that. But as this is a Nashville-based magazine, it gets a pass here on the rexblog.

Quote:

“…he says he spent the last three years of his sentence turning his life around by praying and planning a business venture (to open a) small media firm to publish a…magazine.”

(Explanation: How magazines get started.)

How magazines get started, continued: Some surfers in Hawaii are starting a new magazine called Heavywater.

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“We´ve watched surfing on television since the days of Barton Lynch, when the Gotcha Pro was still at Sandy Beach,” said Alston. “I´ve been looking at surf magazines since I was 6 or 7.”

(Explanation: How magazines get started.)

The Moscower? A new Russian magazine looks strangely familiar. It’s a knock-off of the New Yorker. Lawyers are standing by.