CityView Magazine

Publisher’s Note ONE CITY, MANY VIEWS I t’s a wonderful problem to have: CityView has such faithful readers you typically deplete our racks two weeks before the next edition even arrives. That is both a blessing and a curse. Allow me to explain. While we typically don’t take the time to delve into the inside baseball of publishing, we are excited to share a few changes here at Fayetteville’s only glossy lifestyle publication. The answer to our “problem” is to print more issues, of course, but in order to keep our advertisers happy we need to keep rates at their current level. Please take the time to thank them for making this magazine possible. It is because of them that CityView is growing and growth means more advertisers and more pages. It’s a game of numbers. That’s where the Internet comes in. On the Web, space is unlimited. We continue to expand our Web site where you can find an electronic version of the magazine and an expanded selection of our Seen at the Scene photographs. If photographer Steve Aldridge snapped your picture at a recent event but it did not appear in the print edition you can still see the photos online. You can even purchase photos to keep and share. We also invite you to check out our two blogs. If you haven’t already seen her posts, be sure to keep tabs on Amelia Forman-Stiles as she tracks Fayetteville’s nightlife. She recently took on the challenge of a city-wide cocktail contest. A two-week taste test led to her top 10 14 | Food & Wine • 2010 picks, read about them right here in the pages of this issue. The Rev. Dan Alger is our newest blogger though he is a familiar face to CityView readers. They say it’s impolite to discuss politics or religion but Dan challenges that notion by expanding his popular column into a thoughtful exchange of ideas online. The title of his blog, like his column, is Engaging Christian Spirituality, and that’s exactly what he sets out to do: engage readers in a discussion about all points of Christianity, good, bad or ugly. Anyone who knows me is aware that I’ve never been afraid of a friendly debate. I tackled the controversial issue of abortion on our blog after some people I know approached me about a recent letter I wrote to the newspaper. I invited them to sit down for a chat and a cup of coffee, but they declined, which I found interesting. How could someone have strong feelings about a subject yet not sit down for a friendly discussion? That is the essence of my essay. Read it, debate it, email me, call me, send me a tweet. Or in this age of ever- expanding communication, strike up an old-fashioned conversation the next time you see me. See you around the ‘ville!CV Marshall Waren, Publisher

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