Pacific Northwest culture magazine, Tablet ^[1] 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 [# ^[2]] 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.