27587 Magazine

12/06/2025

We pause for a moment of silence for Charlotte Magazine, which has put out its last edition after six decades. Story quote: "It wasn't just a publication — it was an incubator for some of the best writing in the city, a place where long-form reporting and deeply human features were the standard, not the exception."

Charlotte magazine is a lifestyle publication, but it's also a well-known voice of the city

12/04/2025

Throwback Thursday. Did you know our editor and publisher is not only a transplant -- arriving in North Carolina and starting 27587 a dozen years ago -- but also a native, born at Duke Hospital and living his very young years in Durham. His mom was a freelancer for the N&O and The Durham Herald and his dad a water-purification chemist at the Durham Water Department. Both are Duke alum. And since we're a metro, we regularly have Durham-related stories on our pages. Photo: the license plate of the publisher's dad.

12/02/2025

It's Giving Tuesday. Please consider a donation to this region's only widely circulated award-winning metro, brought to you by professional journalists with vast experience in story-telling, photography, design, and illustration. Real stories. Real people. Only in 27587 Magazine --"A North Carolina Original."

Real stories. Read people. All in an award-winning magazine!

11/28/2025

Direct mailers? Into recycling fast. Vanity pay-to-play advertorial publications, good bye. Coupons, not worth the time for those with the disposable income to be attractive to advertisers. That leaves the award-winning metro 27587 Magazine -- "A North Carolina Original," which, as you can see, keeps on displaying your brand and messaging at hundreds of Triangle locations. AND, it includes a substantial direct-mail component. Last days to reserve your ad space. Contact [email protected] today!

11/28/2025

A 27587 EXCLUSIVE! Looking for that special stocking stuffer? Look no further than this keepsake of some of our most beloved features from the pages of the region's most honored publication!

Here's the teaser:

You might remember the pie-throwing antics of comedian Soupy Sales, or Shirley Owens of The Shirelles and their top-of-the-charts hit "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow," or maybe Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paul Eliot Green and his enduring "Lost Colony," or perhaps pioneering director Cecil B. DeMille and his 1957 cinema epic "The Ten Commandments." They are but a few of the luminaries whose names can be mentioned in the same breath's as North Carolina's. They all have roots here and in the past few years wound up on the pages of "27587 Magazine - "A North Carolina Original," an award-winning quarterly that takes its name from a zip code in one of the state's fastest-growing towns, namely the old college town of Wake Forest. "Who needs 90210, when we have 27587," wrote one of the magazine's admirers while invoking, tongue-in-cheek, a 1990s television show aligned with Beverly Hills, Calif. Well, they've said we're "entertaining as well as informative," so much so that we decided to bring you a selection of some two-dozen of our most beloved stories. Of course, North Carolina's being a place that since 1993 has been among the Top 10 destination states, there's no shortage of stories about transplants, captured in such features as "Native New Yorkers. Not quite in that N.Y. state of mind anymore," "From California, here they come," "Brits in our midst," and "Jersey girls in the Piedmont." Sprinkle in some stories of a perhaps peculiar nature -- "Tales of the Tags" and "Giddy up, cowboy" - and there are plenty of openings to engage our current and future North Carolina neighbors! So, we hope you enjoy your journey through the pages of "North Carolina Originals."

11/26/2025

Good morning, 27587 Magazine Land! Every so often it's fun to peek at the stats showing visitors to our website. Here's a sampling from just the past few days: WF, of course Raleigh, Durham, Cary, Louisburg, Wilmington, Fayetteville, and Forest City. And from Atlanta; North Charleston; Phoenix; Fort Worth; Ashburn Va.; San Francisco; San Jose, Calif.; Chicago; Deerfield Beach, Fla.; Wabash, Ind.. And the world: Leinster, Ireland; Mexico City, and Amsterdam, to name a few. Wishing all a warm and restful Thanksgiving!

11/19/2025

It's nice receiving recognition from our colleagues, as we just did with a first place win for "general excellence" from the North Carolina Press Association. But it's especially nice to hear from our readers and advertisers, as we did today:

"Everyone who comes into our office (as well as our staff) enjoys 27587 so very much. It's the only publication we keep out for our patients and they scoop them up pretty quickly."

11/18/2025

Meet the renaissance man, painter that is. We've featured many artists in our regular "Portrait of an Artist" features, and Samuel Bordley -- in the autumn edition -- is probably the youngest to date, having just turned 30. Read about the talented artist in the latest issue of your award-winning 27587 Magazine -- "A North Carolina Original." Real stories. Real People. To advertise, contact [email protected] today!

11/13/2025

Throwback Thursday. Here's a glimpse into our "New Dawn for Downtowns" feature from -- drum roll -- 2017. Real stories. Real people. Remember these? To advertise in our first edition of 2026, contact [email protected] today!

11/12/2025

SPOTTED BY A READER: You can find our metro in city-permitted newsstands in downtown Raleigh, inside the Sheraton, and -- for all the java crowd to savor -- at The Morning Times in Raleigh.

11/11/2025

The power of print.

"The survey found two-thirds of respondents saying that they had purchased something after seeing it in a magazine, a far higher conversion rate than digital can muster.

"This is tied up too in the quality values tied up in print. The pull of print is about beautiful design and photography (60%), content not available elsewhere (53.3%), quality of writing and journalism (40%) and a third like the idea of keeping a magazine for future reference.

Contract and lifestyle magazines publisher Title Media has carried out a 2,000-strong survey finding that print is the preferred channel for readers looking for a break from digital overload.

11/09/2025

It's worth repeating that your 27587 Magazine -- "A North Carolina Original" is this year's first-place honoree for "general excellence" from the North Carolina Press Association, on top of our latest batch of awards for magazine/niche publication, overall design, photography, illustration, feature writing, and story ledes. As our advertisers say, it all boils down to "the longest shelf life" for their brand and messaging. Join us for the first edition of 2026! (Contact [email protected])