After we had so much fun putting together our Christmas newspaper, we thought we’d make another little publication to preach the gospel of all our favourite mags of the moment.

Made with the help of Thomas Williams at Hunt Studio it’s a small booklet called Magazines We Love Right Now and it highlights magazines from Coverjunkie to Offscreen to Lucky Peach and Kinfolk as well as a fair few others you might not be familiar with.

It’s 30 pages long and comes with a tear-off $5 voucher for redemption in-store before the 1st June. We’ll have these available at agIdeas in Melbourne this week or you can ask at the counter for a copy at any of our stores in Melbourne and Sydney.

Otherwise, we’ll happily send you one in the post (within Australia and New Zealand) if you send your address to info@magnation.com with the subject line “Booklet please”.

The voucher expires soon, so get in quick!

In an old episode of Frasier doing the rounds on the re-run circuit up at the higher end of the digital TV spectrum—somewhere between the first season of Mad About You and what seems to be the one episode of Everyone Loves Raymond on an apparently endless loop—there’s a moment where Frasier describes his experience speed dating as “basically all the stress and humiliation of a blind date… times twelve.”

Our friends at Time Out Melbourne are doing their darndest to mitigate these horrors by combining them with the wonder of printed media in a little thing that they call Magazine Speed Dating.

Actually they’re calling it an “indoor-magazine-picnic-date thingo” but it’s basically the same thing.

Due to be held at our Elizabeth Street store on Wednesday 16th May, take a look at Time Out’s site for more details on how to get involved. (They’ve had plenty of applications from the fairer sex, but there’s still room for plenty of men, so get involved fellas!)