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, June 17, 2009 by Jane Di Leo.
Owning a vacation home, for most people, is a dream that doesn’t often turn into a reality. There are those pesky little details—maintenance, affordability, location—that hold us back. Instead, we often venture to hotels or rental property for a quick trip to our destination of choice. There is, however, a new kid on the block, so to speak—a new way to get your dream and vacation there, too.
Friday, April 10, 2009 by Jayne Haugen Olson.
Yes, I’m a Northern girl, but I do love Atlanta. Now, don’t think I only say that because of my new Delta connection. I’ve been to Hotlanta a handful of times in my adult years. Atlanta provided my first taste of a Krispy Kreme nearly ten years ago. I’ve roamed such neighborhoods as Virginia Heights and Little Five Points. I’ve walked the public spaces created for the Olympics. And I was awestruck when I took a tour of the legendary Fox Theater, which was built in the 1920s as the Yaarab Temple Shrine Mosque.
Tuesday, April 07, 2009 by Jayne Haugen Olson.
While getting ready to launch Sky, our publisher set up two weeks of launch events in five cities. I hit four. As we know, it’s important to court businesses that do business with us—and those we hope will do business with us. Don’t get me wrong, these were not short-straw cities; the events I made it to were in New York, Atlanta, Chicago, and LA. The trips were in and out, a day or two per city, so there was no time for museums or shopping.
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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