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Roadside Magazine has made another lurch in its evolution. We proudly announce the Roadside Napkin Notes e-Newsletter.
Last January, we began to send out regular monthly email newsletters to members that announced web site changes, bits of news, and other information related to Roadside and America's back roads. Because our membership has grown more than 500% since we launched the Diner Finder Online, our web host would no longer allow the use of their mail servers, so we eventually had to find a new way of delivering it.
Last month, we signed on with Campaign Monitor, an email management service that allows us to actually send out well-designed, content-rich publications worthy of the Roadside Magazine tradition.
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Highway 99, was the main north–south highway of "The West" until 1964. Beginning in Calexico, California at the Baja California, Mexi...Written on 03 February 20120 comment(s) · Read More
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Here in Upstate New York, there are a lot of (potentially) beautiful old Main Streets, lined mostly or completely with handsome old brick buildings fr...
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Here are two views of another of Virginia's "Waysides," which once served motorists the way "rest areas" do now on the interstates. Ho...
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“The Artist” is a charming movie, deserving of all the Golden Globes awards it received, and then some. (Watching that otherwise uninspired awar...
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This is a memorial plaque to Joyce Kilmer, famous for the poem "Trees." The name is a pseudonym, and in fact Joyce Kilmer was a man. He died in action...
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Miss Albany closes -- Diner in danger
02-03-2012
Fans of the now former Miss Albany Diner or of diners in general will not be happy about this news.... Read more
Chagrin Falls shows soft heart for its hardware store
01-29-2012
Who says that the internet hasn't helped the local business? It's all in how you use it. In the Era of... Read more
Hollywood to theaters: Upgrade or die
01-26-2012
As if small, independent and historic theaters have enough to worry about. Soon they won't even have any films to... Read more
Classic downtown theater preserved and repurposed
01-24-2012
When one thinks of Los Angeles, the notion of a traditional downtown isn't the first image to come to mind.... Read more
Pittsfield diner stays in the family
01-17-2012
Good to see this diner stalwart still going strong. 55 years later, Pittsfield diner is still all in the family By Dick... Read more
Libby's goes Greek
01-17-2012
Would it be too much to ask that the new owners simply preserve this rare Worcester diner and keep it... Read more
New hardware for Amtrak
01-13-2012
For all the money that Congress and the President tossed around since 2009, you'd think Amtrak would have all-new-everything by... Read more
Single screens reviving in traditional neighborhoods
01-13-2012
It's worth mentioning that The Cinema on Clinton Avenue sits right across the street from the fantastic Highland Park Diner... Read more
Washington Post ten years late to our Pittsburgh party
01-06-2012
The Washington Post declares Pittsburgh hip. Welcome to the party, Post. We called this one over ten years ago. We've... Read more
Experts discuss Amtrak's prospects for profit
01-06-2012
The folks over at Freakonomics (which has a podcast I listen to almost religiously) have weighed in on the prospects... Read more
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The Diner Finder 2012 edition is now available at Lulu.com. Full color listing of nearly 2000 diners from around the world. Order yours today!
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Another site upgrade
Visitors will notice some subtle changes to the site since Monday night. Because the upgrade and redesign that I implemented last November didn't go as smoothly as I had hoped, I opted to start from scratch instead. Two months later, the site looks pretty solid so far, and had the added bonus of a new, easier-to-use system for our Riding Shotgun bloggers.
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Taking from Teek
Vacation for the Family Roadside inevitably includes a little diner hunting and chats with strangers at local bars. Wurtsboro, New York... Read more
Pittsburgh: Third place victorious
The Paris of Appalachia, Pittsburgh in the Twenty-first Century by Brian O'NeillCarnegie-Mellon University PressPittsburgh, PA. $16.95 Back in 2001, right after... Read more
Sweeter by the Dozens
Paula Huber says she’s “a dying breed,” but don’t call the coroner yet. She’s much too busy -- teasing her customers,... Read more
A Restaurant That Lives Up To Its Name
I am married to Michigan. But I am in love with Pennsylvania. Sure, Michigan and I have had some good... Read more
My Brothers' Place: The New Lord of the Rings
Onion rings. Thanks to some genius, most places now serve those awful, bloated, pillow-like "beer-battered" onion rings. Everywhere from Applebee's... Read more
Atlantic City Gamble: Rolling dice on the rails
I don't gamble. I have too much respect for money and work too hard to earn it to derive any... Read more
In the Temple of Pie
Good pie nourishes not only the body but also the spirit. It requires generous measures of dedication, heaping cupfuls of... Read more
Tonic on the Taconic
Otto Maier greets you with the sincerity of a fervent missionary. If you have the great pleasure to stop for... Read more
Roadside interviews Mr. Ed
We interviewed Mr. Ed from Mr. Ed's Elephant Museum in Orrtanna, Pennsylvania in May 2002. We hoped to put together... Read more
Download Issue 27: Good Diners Good Neighborhoods
Explore the Philadelphia's Mayfair section back in 1997 and how the once-great Mayfair Diner helped to bring about a revival... Read more
The Jersey Shore Uncovered: A Revealing Season on …
By Peter Genovese Rutgers University Press, Rutgers, 2003 $14.95, 225 pages, hardcover Genovese does it again. By combining his true reporter nature... Read more
Daniel Zilka's Unfinished Projects
Compared to what it formerly looked like, the restoration of the Birdseye Diner gets high marks from its owner and... Read more
Come for the burger, leave for some ketchup
Roadside is second to no one in its reverence of the idiosyncratic. I've gone well out of my way to... Read more
Red Arrow Hits Target
Sometimes you don’t know what happened to you until after it’s over. My recent breakfast visit to the Red... Read more
Larry's love letter to diners
No one has a greater love and/or obsession with diners than Larry Cultrera. I can probably count on one hand... Read more
Roadside Approved Link: OnlynDetroit.com
Because of its current state of unfortunate affairs and its rich industrial and cultural history, we are in search of... Read more