This blog would be impossible to write without a place I can reliably see all the supermarket rag headlines every week as soon as they are available to the public. For me, that place is DeLauer's newsstand on Broadway between 13th and 14th in downtown Oakland. Today, I noticed that Star was missing, and when I told the owner he got on the line to his distributor and told me I could come back in an hour.
For those of you who don't read this blog regularly, all I do is read the covers of the supermarket rags. If I want to find out more about the story, I also check the websites or the Internet to see if a story has been denied, as many often are. This means I don't actually buy $40 worth of magazines a week, and still DeLauer's gives me great service. I've taken to buying a soda or a snack when I go in just so I don't feel like a parasite.
If you are in the downtown area of Oakland, check out DeLauer's for all your magazine and periodical needs. This is small business at its finest.