FrontPage is closing.

That's right. Yeah. You heard me. FrontPage Newsstand on Jasper Ave will close on the 18th of July due to rent costs. Sad, isn't it? Don't we (and I mean the royal, collective society "we") read magazines anymore? Newspapers? Anything? Are we all THAT glued to our computers and our TVs and iPhones? You know, there shouldn't be two newsstands in this city, there should be some on each corner. Especially because downtown Edmonton seems to have this strong "community" - it seems big enough to attract a Sobeys and a flipping Farmer's Market but somehow there's no room for one of the biggest Saturday-afternoon-walk attractions in the downtown core.

Great. Just watch, as Hub Cigar will randomly close next and all of a sudden I'm going to have to buy my mags at Chapters. And we all know how much Heather Reisman loves her censorship. Cripes. Mom and Pop shops, beware. It seems Edmonton is not the place for you, to the detriment of any shreds of independent culture we have left.