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NYC Indies Partner With Pop-Up Shop

The Newsstand, a pop-up shop at the Metropolitan Avenue subway station in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighborhood, is selling independently published magazines, books, comics, and zines in what the New York Times called “a small haven for printed media.”

Open until July 20, The Newsstand offers a kind of “staff picks” selection of titles chosen by local area independents: magazines and journals from McNally-Jackson in SoHo; zines and photography books from Dashwood Books on the Lower East Side of Manhattan; comics from the Desert Island bookstore in Williamsburg; and art books from Ohwow in Greenwich Village.

“I was trying to find a way of supporting that scene without stepping on their toes,” Lele Saveri, The Newsstand’s manager, told the Times.

Boswell Launches Find Waldo Local on FOX TV

Media reports on Find Waldo Local celebrations are popping up all over the place, and one notable one was the appearance on Monday of Halley Pucker of Boswell Book Company in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Waldo, on FOX6 WakeUp.

Halley discussed the store’s plans for this year’s Find Waldo Local scavenger hunt and a kickoff event on Monday evening with crafts and games for children.