Newcity is pleased to announce the return of our biggest literary issue of the year, Lit 50: Who Really Books in Chicago, timed to coincide with the Midwest’s biggest literary event, the Printers Row Lit Fest.

While last year’s edition chronicled Chicago’s leading writers, poets, book designers, and so on, this year we look at those who exert influence over Chicago’s literary culture, including many of the behind-the-scenes individuals who bring Chicago’s literary world  to life in ways big and small.

It will be an issue that lovers of the book cannot miss.

If you have not reserved space, please do so. This edition will reach Chicago’s most avid supporters of the literary arts, not to mention that your investment will help support Newcity’s ongoing increase in literary coverage at a time when everyone else is stepping back.

Please reserve space by this Friday, May 26. Artwork is due Tuesday, May 31 at noon.

And be sure to keep up with our literary coverage at Newcity Lit .

Newcity owns summer in Chicago.

We launched it seventeen years ago, as a promotion for our Summer Guide edition, which we wanted to call “the official users manual for sunshine” and thought it would work better if there were an actual sunny season to help audiences understand what we were getting at. It was very popular and we decided to expand it from a one-time promotional tie-in into one of the perpetual seasons. Where there were only three major seasons, now there are four. (Summer is like the Fox Network of seasons, though less right-wing.) For many of us, this newfangled thing we call summer is now the most popular.

You’re welcome.

Whether you’re selling a swimsuit for the beach, or shorts for the beer garden; whether you’re operating a beer garden or an al fresco restaurant; whether you’re selling beer, wine or picnic baskets to pack for a night at Ravinia; or whether you are Ravinia or Pitchfork, the potential riches of summer abound. And of course we can’t forget theater productions, art shows and street fairs. Read the rest of this entry »

Newcity’s April 28 issue—”Breakout Artists: Chicago’s Next Generation of Image Makers”—will be our eighth annual edition devoted to showcasing Chicago’s top emerging artists. Each new edition of Newcity’s Breakout Artists issue has become the talk of Chicago during the course of the Art Chicago/NEXT/Artropolis art fairs.

So who should advertise in this issue? Well anyone connected to the art world, either as an exhibition venue, a teacher of art or as a seller of art, of course. But beyond that, anyone interested in connecting to culture in its most exuberant form, or reaching the consumers of art—often the most demographically desirable of all—whether to offer them a place to eat, to shop, or to have a cocktail. To inquire about rates and space availability, email advertising@newcity.com.

Space Reservation Deadline: Thursday, April 21

Materials Deadline: Friday, April 22 (preferred), Monday, April 25 (late)

In 2006, Newcity published its Indie Record Store Guide, designed to celebrate the precious resource that these venues are to our lives. We must have been onto something because, about a year later, Record Store Day was born, a national event designed to celebrate, to cherish the glories of old-fashioned off-line independent local retail in a sector of the marketplace devastated by new technologies. RSD brings everyone together in the stores, with bands  performing, special promotions, etc. As a core element of The Record Store Issue, we’re going to publish a new edition of our Indie Record Store Guide, along with a guide to key RSD events in Chicago.

Issue Date: April 14
Advertising Deadline: April 8

Contact: advertising@newcity.com

Note: Newcity does not publish 4-21, but returns 4-28 with Breakout Artists

Newcity is pleased to announce the return of our biggest performing arts issue of the year, The Players: Chicago’s leading performers.

Once again, we’ll be chronicling the many behind-the-scenes individuals who bring Chicago theater, dance, opera, comedy and performance to life. It’s an insight into the inner workings of Chicago’s arts culture that you can’t find anywhere else, any time.

It will be an issue that lovers of the stage cannot miss.

If you have not reserved space, please do so. This edition will reach Chicago’s most avid supporters of the performing arts, not to mention that your investment will help support Newcity’s ongoing increase in coverage at a time when everyone else is stepping back. And it is timed to serve as a winter/spring preview of sorts, hitting as most of the second half of the season is just getting underway.

Our performing arts rates are quite reasonable, even for color ads. Please reserve space by next Friday, January 14. Artwork is due Monday, January 17.

Click here to read the last three editions of The Players

If you’d like more details about who else advertises with us, our demographics and our online opportunities, please visit: http://newcitynetwork.com/advertising-marketing/performance-advertising-theater-dance-comedy-opera/

For the last several years, we’ve published Life 101, an issue dedicated to education in January, based on the theme “Change Your Life.”  The mandate ranges from the casual—a cooking or dance class, a topical forum—to continuing ed and degree programs, especially advanced degrees. Our University of Chicago publication returns that week from break, so you’ll also connect very well with that community.

If education is part, or all, of your mission, we hope you’ll engage with us as we endeavor to create a truly special issue. You won’t connect with a finer audience of voracious knowledge seekers anywhere, we guarantee that.

Please let us know right away if you’d like to reserve space or see rates.

Ad  space deadline: Thursday, December  30
Artwork deadline: Monday, January 3

PS: Last year’s editorial content can be found here:
http://newcity.com/2010/01/05/life-101-the-2010-education-issue/

We are pleased to announce that we will be combining our most popular year-end features into a special double issue to be published December 23. With a Holiday Movie Guide and a New Year’s Eve Party Guide, we’ll be ready to help our audience fill in all of their downtime from Christmas through New Year’s. And our super-popular Top 5 of Everything will be there to help folks ensure they haven’t missed anything.

If you want to end your year on the highest note a business can hit, make sure you advertise in this one. We need your space reserved by Thursday, December 16 and your artwork by that weekend. Email advertising@newcity.com or call 312.243.8786 x17.

Newcity will not publish an issue in print on December 30, but will return on January 6, 2011.

Newcity’s Best of Chicago is the publishing event of the year in the Windy City and this year, for our eighteenth edition, we’re taking it up a notch by publishing it on a brighter, heavier paper stock, and in a stitch-and-trim format that encourages audiences to keep this thing around for a full year.

With 200 or so categories, most of which are not repeated for five years, Newcity’s Best of Chicago has no competition as a chronicle of the finest our city has to offer. And with our signature takes on the city’s zeitgeist provided in a comprehensive audience poll (example: Best Campaign Slogan for Rahm Emanuel), you can be confident that your marketing message will reside at the very center of Chicago’s conversation.

So give your operation the adrenaline shot of the year by booking space in the Best of Chicago.

Issue Date: December 9
Space Reservation Deadline: December 2
Preferred Materials Deadline: December 3

Advertising@Newcity.com or 312.243.8786 x17

See the archives from the past couple of years here: best.newcity.com

Hits the streets the day before Black Wednesday!

With a “shop-local” gift focus + a selective guide to seasonal events

Who should advertise?

Retailers,  including museum gift shops, who rely on the holiday season to make or break your year and have a great story to tell our large, city-based and affluent audience;

Nightclubs who want to tell us where to go on Black Wednesday (this issue comes out the day before);

Theaters, dance companies and cultural institutions who produce special shows for the season;

Restaurants, who would like to feed our audience,  as they look for sustenance after shopping, or meet friends to exchange holiday cheer, or on their way to a holiday dance or theater production;

Artists and gallerists who organize or participate in art- or artisan-driven local gift fairs;

Fashion retailers, who want to sell holiday party outfits to our audience members to wear to the theater, to the club, or to holiday parties. (Not to mention salons to make them pretty.)

In other words, anyone who wants to make things happen in this holiday season.

Issue Date: November 25 (Streets Tuesday, November 23)

Ad Deadline: Thursday, November 18 (space); Friday, November 19 (materials)

Newcity’s been treating Chicagoans to an adult take on Halloween ever since it was just a kids holiday. Make sure you book ad space now if you’re banking on a big Halloween weekend.