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Newsstand: November 27, 2009
Eye Weekly is fourteen. What does fourteen look like? It doesn't look like a gangly teen in flannels and black Cons, and it no longer wears black and yellow round the clock. It sports all new fonts, in the key of The Royal Tenenenbaums, and it's full of new features. For a fourteen year-old, it's surprisingly sophisticated. 
As far as features, they've kept much of the good stuff (my apartment, a rip off of the Voice's Shelter, that TOist has always loved), done away with old stuff that no one much liked, brought back faded goodies (the fashion spread, Party Pics), and introduced lots of weird little new things (like Liz Clayton's P's and Q's, it looks like a recurring photo on manners). Q&A, a feature that is only excerpted in pull quotes in print, has expanded interviews online. Most of the old stalwarts are still around (Jason Anderson, Sasha, Denise Benson), but a few have left the building. The Eyeblog is nowhere to be seen. Oh, and it's all colour all the time.
The redesign is credited to lady about town Tyler Clarke Burke, who Eye recruited to 'help them dress right for the part.' We think it looks pretty good. The illustration and photos are nice, and the mini-features (a restaurant blurby-thing called The Local, a local personality thing called meet) are welcome additions. The City page is a little hard to read (no lines, no empty spaces) but we'll get used to it. But you, what do you think?
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i always liked their concert updates.
i could see the newly announced shows right away, now its just a chart thats hard to read in the web.
i don't know what the physical copy looks like but they need to work on their internet design.
do they still have best bets?
cheers
i should also ad i like the new cover.
even though it does look a little dose-y.
jon rae's face has never looked better.
cheers
Oh, THAT'S where Tyler Clark Burke has been for like the last month. The cover looks pretty good.
Give us a minute to get the website all sorted out -- the blog is still up and running at www.eye.net/blog. Thanks for your feedback guys.
Having a bit of a problem with viewing your page on Internet Explorer (with Windows NT as the OS). The boxes at the left side of the screen block the text of the main article so that it can't be read. If you get this, I'm lucky, 'cause I'm guessing what goes into each of the Comment field bozes.
All the best,
PW
I agree with 'suckingalemon' on the web version of the concert calendar; it's a little difficult to digest.
Everything else looks very fine indeed on my various Mac browsers (Safari, Camino, Firefox, Omniweb, Opera).
Can't wait to pick-up my hard-copy tonight. :D
The hard copy looks great, but the online version needs work. Avenir & arial narrow = bad.
Still, hooray for change.
change is good, but i dunno, maybe i'm just not seeing it, but to me the web site works alot better than the hard copy. Slimbach is a nice font but set at that size/leading in some of those tight columns, it seems alittle too tight, and when its so tight that the ads and content (what i really want) get mixed up, it really does start to have that dose-y effect....ya know?
i was beginning to worry about eye, but the new changes have done a lot to restore my faith. it's not perfect, but it's definitely getting there.
Who's going to pick up the slack now that John Sewell has left? We need the author who writes the "Murmers" column or AC Wienstein from the Miami Sunpost, scaving reviews of the behavior of elected and wanna-be elected local officials.