Vibe Magazine to Become Vintage

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» "I LOVED VIBE MAGAZINE in high school. I always kind of aspired to be a writer there. Well, before I abandoned journalism altogether, and, well, a lot of hip-hop culture as well."
A Jezebel.com commenter was marginally upset to hear about the demise of the once-prominent hip-hop culture magazine after 16 years of circulation.

» "IT WAS PILING ON in the name of symbolism; the non-capital equivalent of executing a guy twice for the same crime."
Andrew Cohen of VanityFair.com thought that though Bernard Madoff deserved a harsh sentence, 150 years turned him into "a symbol of judicial excess, of a man paying the price not just for his own heinous crimes but for the crimes of others who came before him."

» "IF ONE CAN SAY there is a bright side to these violent crimes, it would be that several of the perpetrators have actually been caught and arrested, and are awaiting trial."
DCKaleidoscope.wordpress.com reacts to a Washington Post report that D.C. is on pace for its lowest number of homicides in decades.

» "BOOTING IS AN EXPLICIT admission that parking restrictions in D.C. are purely for the city's financial gain, not an attempt to keep traffic flowing. This is absolutely infuriating."
ComplaintHub.com thinks the city should be towing more cars instead of clogging up traffic with cars that have overdue tickets.

» "I'M STARTING TO FORGET what birthdays were like before Facebook, Twitter, GChat and cell phones. It's pretty incredible how connected everyone is these days."
CollegeGradRealWorld.net finds that the internet might be cheapening the value of birthday wishes, adding, "I find it absolutely fascinating."

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