When I’m downtown I always pop into Newsbeat, which is my favourite shop downtown. I usually get a magazine and a cold drink from here, but I tend to buy a lot of cards too, cards I don’t always need right then, but always seem to find a use for later. When nice cards come out, it’s worth getting them because they may not be available later. Newsbeat gets in a lot of lovely cards from Britain (we make the best cards don’t we), and also those Jellycat stuffed toys, which I have also got a soft spot for getting as presents. I did draw Newsbeat once before, and it was included in that Sactown feature on my work that appeared earlier this year. I thought I should draw it from thins angle though. The weather was still unseasonably hot; I’m happy to say Fall has finally arrived and cooler days are here, I’m even wearing a thick jumper today, though I may regret that when it warms up later. The owner of Newsbeat mentioned to me that they’d seen one of my drawings being used in a Zillow listing, and I couldn’t remember if I’d said yes to that, I need to look into it. They also said that the building Newsbeat was recently got a new owner and the rents are going up, which is a familiar story downtown. I hope they don’t have to move. Stores like this are absolutely vital for a downtown like Davis, we really don’t need another boba tea shop. They make my life here more interesting, Newsbeat, the Avid Reader, Soccer and Lifestyle, the Paint Chip, Armadillo, Logos books, all those little shops. I don’t read paper newspapers much any more, same as most people I think. When I was a kid I wanted to be a journalist and thought that working in a daily newspaper was probably the most glamourous career anyone could have. I still bloody love a magazine though, usually the BBC History magazine and the odd football one, I got one about ukuleles last week (since the latest Hawaii trip I’m well into the ukulele again). I don’t like a lot of American magazines, as they are mostly pages and pages of advertising before you get to anything like an article, it really put me off when I first came over here and picked up Rolling Stone. I still like the metal newspaper stands like the blue one there, that make me think of American cities (and Clark Kent getting his tie stuck in one in one of the old Superman films), you’d be lucky to see those now with any newspapers in them. I stared down 3rd Street as I drew this and realized this was the third sketch I’d done of 3rd Street looking in this direction in the past couple of months.