so long, tablet
Pacific Northwest culture magazine, Tablet has distributed its last issue. After a five year run that included a transition from tablet-style newsprint `zine to a semi-glossy (at least the cover) magazine covering Portland and Seattle music, art, and fashion, the publishers are calling it quits. This month’s “Love, Tablet” letter from the editors bids readers farewell [#] and encourages them to start their own publications.
The theme of this month’s issue is “music” — pick it up while you still can, think happy thoughts about the good old days, and send imaginary or actual well-wishes to the Tablet staff. Although I’ll miss finding free new issues stacked up in cafés or record shops, I hope that the people who take up the editor’s charge don’t share Tablet’s fondness for tiny fonts.
you’re actually going to miss it? i wondered who would be in that cohort.
At the very least, I think I’ll miss the idea of it.
And I probably wouldn’t have bought Clap Your Hands Say Yeah if I hadn’t happened to see Tablet’s “A+” review of it the day before I was browsing Sonic Boom.
Tablet had a lot of the spirit of the staple zines you made in HS — Add me to the ‘miss’ list.
I stopped reading when they made the format change. I think they became unfocused and too much like a little brother to the Stranger.
I hope someone fills the void it leaves.