In this issue:
Seriously Funny: Onstage and in his new documentary, Chris Rock says what you can't—and why we're glad he does.
Also: Taylor Swift: Our Q & A With Music's Girl Next Door
Wednesday, December 02, 2009 by Jane Di Leo.
I never envisioned myself traveling to Arkansas and coming away thinking, "Wow, this place is beautiful." You can imagine my surprise, then, when I arrived in Little Rock and saw the surrounding mountains, craggy peaks and a river flowing through it all.
Tuesday, October 06, 2009 by Liz Doyle.
I’ve been to restaurant openings before, but I have never been to a Disney restaurant opening. That is until I was invited to the “Opa”ning of Cat Cora’s new restaurant Kouzzina, and I'm pretty sure that I am ruined for all other lackluster openings. OK, perhaps I am being a bit dramatic. But there is something about the Disney magic that ignites everything it touches, a 27-year-old magazine editor not to be excluded.
Wednesday, September 23, 2009 by Sarah Elbert.
Weeks ago, I wrote about my training for a half-marathon. Well, I did it, and I didn’t collapse in a puddle of sweat and banana peels. I may have slightly embarrassed myself, in fact, by sprinting across the finish line as if any of the spectators were paying the least bit of attention to me and my triumphant two-hour journey through the streets of Montreal.
Friday, September 18, 2009 by Deborah Caulfield Rybak.
The problem: I’m off to Morocco for three weeks, a country where the predominant languages are French and Arabic. I needed somehow to relocate my high school French, which had faded significantly after several decades and about a million trips to Mexico. What to do? I bought a cheapie CD kit at a bookstore, but the course what it offered had nothing to do with travel—it was great if you wanted to recite a recipe for tomato soup. I’m not kidding.
Tuesday, September 15, 2009 by Jane Di Leo.
Our deputy editor, Sarah Elbert, just got back from running her first half marathon (she killed it, by the way), which was in Montreal this past weekend. Her adventure reminded me of what I love to do most when landing in a new city: run.
Tuesday, September 08, 2009 by Deborah Caulfield Rybak.
Season Five of Tyra Banks’ talk show kicked off this week on the CW, and her online magazine, Tyra, also debuted this week, though she was already hard at it when I visited with her in New York in July. If past shows have been any indication, we can expect to see her interview more big-name “gets” this year, although, surprisingly, she confessed to not being particularly fierce when it comes to stalking celebrity interviews.
Tuesday, August 25, 2009 by Deborah Caulfield Rybak.
AMC’s critical smash Mad Men glided smoothly into its third season over a week ago with its suave noir look at the early ‘60s through the smokey lens of a Madison Avenue advertising agency. Last year, the show took the Emmy for best drama, becoming the first basic cable show ever to do so. This year it’s nominated for another 16 Emmys, including best drama and best actress for Elisabeth Moss, who plays the ambitious Peggy Olson, who has bravely scaled the employment wall separating the men from the secretaries.
Thursday, August 13, 2009 by Liz Doyle.
I'll admit it: Professional athletes have always fascinated me. Whether tennis stars, swimmers or marathon runners, they are all finely tuned machines designed for optimum performance. So what goes into getting these athletes to the highest level? Is it all in the training, or is it just part of their DNA?
Wednesday, August 05, 2009 by Sarah Elbert.
Our editor maintains that, in general, a third of a magazine’s readers know less than its editors, a third know just about the same amount and a third know more than they (OK, we) do. Of course, some know more about certain fields than others, and our sources and writers come almost exclusively from the last, smarty-pants category. Occasionally (though not often), we also happen upon readers who also fall into this last category, finding nuggets that escaped even our tenacious fact-checkers.
Monday, August 03, 2009 by Deborah Caulfield Rybak.
Here’s one for our “You never know who might be reading” file. In June’s issue, comedian Robert Klein pleaded guilty to a 30-year-old crime: He’d stolen a towel from the Holiday Inn during one of his tours. It wasn’t just an idle confession either; Klein’s people had actually checked with us beforehand to see if we saw any legal ramifications to him making such a statement. "Sure, go ahead," we said cavalierly. I mean, how long could the statute of limitations be on Grand Theft Towel?
An intuitive editor, editor in chief Jayne Haugen Olson directs the editorial vision of Sky and leads a team of top-notch editors and international writers to create a distinctive new approach to inflights—an onboard lifestyle magazine. The first half of Jayne's publishing career was on the business side in key marketing positions at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, as well as with Seattle Magazine, where she served as associate publisher. Jayne traded in her media kit for a tape recorder and crossed the great divide to join the editorial team at Mpls.St.Paul as the senior lifestyle editor in 2000. In addition to managing a team of five editors covering lifestyle, retail, home, fashion, trend and design Jayne was instrumental in the development of content for mspmag.com, an Emmy award winning lifestyle web site. Jayne has appeared as a regular contributor to several radio and television shows in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. Jayne also served as content strategist and editor in chief for Macy's breakout magazine concept, "M", a 750,000 circulation quarterly magazine distributed throughout the central United States.
As a slightly workaholic mother of twin four-year-olds, most of Jayne's world travels are done by reading. Her hope is that the day-to-day temptations in her new editorial position will change all of that.
As deputy editor of Delta Sky, Sarah Elbert lassos the best writers she can find to cover the world—as well as contributing some prose of her own. Before coming to Sky, Sarah was editorial director of magazines including Northwest WorldTraveler and Carlson Wagonlit Travel's Postcards. She has been a newspaper editor, a freelance writer and an Associated Press reporter, riding with the White House travel pool (back in the Clinton days) and covering everything from natural disasters to a cat kidney transplant. Sarah has written for The New York Times, the New York Post, the New York Sun—but not the NY Daily News. She now lives in Minneapolis, which she finds lovely and underrated, but does occasionally miss Manhattan and the Staten Island Ferry. Sarah would like to think she could again go backpacking across Europe, and she still loves to travel, but she knows that train has left the station. It's just so much quicker to fly.
Senior editor Deborah Caulfield Rybak covers the arts and entertainment beat at Sky and for good reason. During her years at as an entertainment industry reporter at the Los Angeles Times, she interviewed a Who's Who of Hollywood and still prefers writing about the arts compared to almost any topic.
Deborah has numerous journalism awards and three books under her career belt. But that's just her journalistic cred. She has also worked as an FM deejay in Aspen, Colorado, a speechwriter in Washington and an environmental film festival director in Colorado. She considers herself happiest when she's out of town and out of cell phone range. Deborah hitchhiked across Kenya, spent the night atop a pyramid in Central America, hovered face-to-mandible with giant manta rays during a night dive in Hawaii and traversed mountain passes in California's High Sierras. She is looking forward to a trip to Morocco in September to hike the Atlas Mountains and ride a camel or two. Still left on her to-do list? Bhutan, marlin fishing and riding elephants in Thailand.
When she is not training for a marathon or traveling around the globe, you'll find Jane Di Leo at her desk, delving into the latest health research and headlines. Jane hails from Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she currently works as online editor for deltaskymag.com and as associate online editor for mspmag.com, the online vehicle for Mpls.St.Paul Magazine. After attending the University of Missouri School of Journalism, where she received her bachelor's and master's degrees in magazine journalism, Jane moved to New York to work for Women's Health. Today, she continues to freelance for Women's Health but enjoys the daily challenges online editing presents—even if it means being on the ball 24/7. Good thing many of the Delta planes now have Wi-Fi.
After a few years navigating the trenches of New York's fashion scene as a stylist assistant at Harpers Bazaar, Liz is excited to be back in her childhood hometown of Minneapolis. When she isn't scouting the latest trends in fashion and travel, she moonlights at a local Parisian brasserie where she says "welcome" and "enjoy" a lot and occasionally tries to improve her French. Though her foray to the editorial side of the magazine industry is a new one, she welcomes the challenge and can't wait to see what this new adventure holds.
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