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IMAGE Chicago Magazine is proud to announce Janet Jackson as the cover model of the October Issue. Jackson is a legendary singer, dancer, producer and actress who usually only graces the covers of national publications. IMAGE Chicago Magazine is privileged to include a full feature article spanning six pages total along with candid photos. The October issue also has Brit-based platinum rock band, the Editors, and Grammy award winning Johnta Austin showcased.

The YouTube Moviemaking Handbook was just released, the first-ever full-length-book about making movies for the revolutionary video sharing service. Bill Dyszel, author of 18 titles in the popular For Dummies series including Microsoft Outlook for Dummies, created the book out of a belief that the YouTube phenomenon represents a watershed in the history of communications and entertainment. “The people who used to watch Saturday Night Live religiously now check out YouTube just as faithfully,” he says. “SNL spawned numerous multimillion-dollar entertainment brands such as Austin Powers, The Blues Brothers, Wayne’s World and others. It’s every bit as likely that some of the cultural icons of the future are getting their start on YouTube today.”

Beau, author of God’s Day in Court, approaches questions many have pondered in his first boundary-pushing novel.

The Herald-Tribune Media Group, SNN6, Comcast and CAP Creative are lead corporate sponsors of the 2006 Sarasota Reading Festival, to be held Saturday, Nov. 4 at Five Points Park in downtown Sarasota. Together, these companies have donated $300,000 in cash and in-kind services to help produce the 9th annual festival, a free daylong celebration of literacy that will feature more than 30 nationally renowned authors.

Any pet owner knows that animals have rich emotional lives and that they love to be talked to. And, just as with humans, there is a right way and a wrong way to initiate communication.

If you ever wanted to know what goes on behind-the-scenes in the directory publishing business, a new book will tell you the good, the bad, and the ugly. It’s called “Inside the Yellow Pages,” and is narrated by a former Yellow Page salesman. Jeffrey Hauser was hired by the Mountain Bell Yellow Pages in 1980 and worked for nearly 25 years as a premise salesman in the Phoenix, Arizona market area. The first half of the book covers his years from his early beginnings all the way until retirement, sparing no details about various Yellow Page publisher’s practices, pricing policies, and union and personnel issues that occurred in a little-known, nor understood, media industry.

The wildly popular fashion and nightlife publication, Cashak Magazine, now offers its viewers direct online shopping through the site’s new fashion bazaar. Cashak Magazine’s fashion editor sorted through over 20,000 fashion items from top designers and companies. The best products for the Fall of 2006 were hand picked by the editor for feature in the bazaar. The fashion bazaar includes apparel like tops, jeans, dresses, sunglasses, shoes and handbags. Beauty products are also found in the bazaar. Cashak Magazine’s bazaar includes top designers like Christian Dior, Apple Bottoms, Ed Hardy, GUESS, Dolce & Gabbana, Juicy Couture among many others. The bazaar exclusively carries fashion for women. Cashak Magazine’s Bazaar is integrated with the publications revered fashion content on its website.

An updated version of this free eBook has been released.