The Boulevard is a Long Island/New York City Regional Variety magazine

Magazine

Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of articles. They are generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscriptions, or all three...

 owned by Anton Community Newspapers

Anton Community Newspapers

Anton Community Newspapers, also known by its legal name Long Island Community Newspapers, Inc. is a print media company based in Mineola, NY on Long Island in Nassau County and produces 18 weekly newspapers in Nassau County as well as The Boulevard Magazine and Healthy Living...

. Founded in 1985, it was well received as a bi-monthly newspaper inserted into selective weekly newspapers in and around Long Island's famous Gold Coast.

History

The magazine began as a newspaper featuring mostly charity events, minor celebrity stories and special features that catered to the higher class villages of the Nassau County North Shore Communities, commonly referred to the "Gold Coast". Today The Boulevard has expanded to cover both Nassau and Suffolk Counties including the Hamptons.

Newspaper to Magazine

Publisher and CEO Angela Susan Anton had a dream and vision of taking The Boulevard to the next level. In October 2006,she took that dream and made it a reality. The Boulevard was transformed into an elegant glossy magazine featuring Dina Lohan, mother of Lindsay Lohan, as the cover in October 2006. Celebrity photographer Patrick McMullan signed on as the Magazine's lead photographer. The current Editor in Chief is Jason Feinberg.

Sections and changes

The Boulevard, in its first three issues, contained additional sections of Travel, Design, Charity Events, Celebs, The Island, Fashion, Wine & Dine and Photo Gallery.

By the fourth issue, the Magazine underwent slight design changes, streamlining the colors and better defining the sections. The sections changed were: Charity Events to Events, The Island to Lifestyle, Celebs to Profiles, and a Health Section was added. By October 2007, the magazine added Music, Art, Sports and Business.

Celebrity Contributors & Press

Through the course of interviews, The Boulevard has attracted a number of celebrity contributors as well as national recognition. Actor Joe Gannascoli (from the Sopranos), guitarist John Lilley of the Hooters

The Hooters

The Hooters is an American rock band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. By combining a mix of rock and roll, reggae, ska and folk music, The Hooters first gained major commercial success in the United States in the mid 1980s due to heavy radio and MTV airplay of several songs including "All You...

, News 12 News Correspondent Gina Glickman and Q104.3 DJ Jonathan Clarke all have written for the Magazine with Jon as a regular contributor.
The Magazine has been featured on Episode 2 of The Living Lohan Show, Good Morning America, Eyewitness News, WPLJ radio, Sirius Radio, Page Six, The Village Voice, Soap Opera Digest, News 12 Long Island, and many other media outlets.

Distribution

As of April 2008, the Boulevard was circulated via the Anton Community Newspapers to 70 communities in the North Shore of Nassau County. It is distributed to over 400 locations on Long Island. Readership is about 180,000(estimated).

B Online

In April 2009, The Boulevard launched a revised, more interactive version of its website and branded it "B Online." The new website offered a more streamlined look and feel as well as the ability to search articles, create events, better handling of multimedia photos and videos as well as the ability to print, pdf and email articles, as well as online advertising.
Fitness Made Simple celebrity John Basedow and Q104.3 "Out of the Box" host, Jonathan Clarke, both have blogs on the website.

Celebrity Features and Covers

Featured Celebrities: In addition to Long Island Mom, Dina Lohan, the Boulevard has featured Dr. Max Gomez, formerly of NBC News, Rock Legend Joan Jett

Joan Jett

Joan Jett is an American rock guitarist, singer, songwriter, producer and actress.She is best known for her work with Joan Jett & the Blackhearts including their hit cover "I Love Rock 'n' Roll", which was #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 from March 20 to May 1, 1982, as well as for their other popular...

, Money Man Steve Forbes, Stylist Clinton Kelly, Singer Chaka Kahn, Lordes, Mayheim Poets, Beverly Mitchell, Joey Fatone, Lance Bass and Kathy Griffin, Geoffrey Holder, Cousin Brucie, Ben Vereen

Ben Vereen

Ben Vereen is an American actor, dancer, and singer who has appeared in numerous Broadway theatre shows. Vereen graduated from Manhattan's High School of Performing Arts.- Early years :...

, Nancy & Ann Wilson, Frank Gifford

Frank Gifford

Francis Newton "Frank" Gifford is a Hall of Fame former American football player and American sportscaster.-Early life:Gifford was born in Santa Monica, California, the son of Lola Mae and Weldon Gifford, an oil driller....

, The Counting Crows Adam Duritz

Adam Duritz

Adam Fredric Duritz is an American musician, songwriter, record producer, and film producer. He is best known for his role as frontman and vocalist for the rock band Counting Crows, in which he is a founding member and principal composer of their catalogue of songs.Duritz has recorded solo...

, Bill Evans

Bill Evans

William John Evans, known as Bill Evans was an American jazz pianist. His use of impressionist harmony, inventive interpretation of traditional jazz repertoire, and trademark rhythmically independent, "singing" melodic lines influenced a generation of pianists including: Chick Corea, Herbie...

, Ed Begley, Jr.

Ed Begley, Jr.

Edward James "Ed" Begley, Jr. is an American actor and environmentalist. Begley has appeared in hundreds of films, television shows, and stage performances. He is best known for his role as Dr. Victor Ehrlich, on the television series St...

, Daryl Hannah

Daryl Hannah

Daryl Christine Hannah is an American film actress. After making her screen debut in 1978, Hannah starred in a number of Hollywood films throughout the 1980s, notably Blade Runner, Splash, Wall Street and Roxanne and Kill Bill.-Early life:Hannah was born in Chicago, Illinois, the daughter of Susan...

, T.Boone Pickens, Danica McKellar

Danica McKellar

Danica Mae McKellar is an American actress, academic, and education advocate. She is best known for her role as Winnie Cooper in the television show The Wonder Years, and later as author of the three The New York Times bestsellers, Math Doesn't Suck, Kiss My Math, and Hot X: Algebra Exposed, which...

, Dee Snider

Dee Snider

Daniel "Dee" Snider is an American singer-songwriter, screenwriter, radio personality, and actor. Snider is most famous for his role as the frontman of the heavy metal band Twisted Sister...

Covers

October 2006 Dina Lohan
December 2006 Dr. Max Gomez
February 2007 Joan Jett

Joan Jett

Joan Jett is an American rock guitarist, singer, songwriter, producer and actress.She is best known for her work with Joan Jett & the Blackhearts including their hit cover "I Love Rock 'n' Roll", which was #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 from March 20 to May 1, 1982, as well as for their other popular...

April 2007 Clinton Kelly

Clinton Kelly (TV personality)

Clinton Kelly is an American fashion consultant and media personality best known for his role as co-host on What Not to Wear, a reality program that features fashion makeovers. He shares on-air duties with Stacy London. Kelly started his career as a freelance writer for several fashion magazines...

June 2007 Laura Bell Bundy

Laura Bell Bundy

Laura Ashley Bell Bundy is an American actress and singer who has performed in a number of Broadway roles, both starring and supporting, as well as in television and film. Her best known Broadway roles are the original Amber Von Tussle in Hairspray and the original Elle Woods in the musical...

August 2007 Susan Lucci

Susan Lucci

Susan Victoria Lucci is an American actress and entrepreneur, best known for portraying Erica Kane on the daytime drama All My Children. The character is considered an icon, and Lucci has been called "Daytime's Leading Lady" by TV Guide, with New York Times and Los Angeles Times citing her as the...

October 2007 Steven Van Zandt

Steven Van Zandt

Steven Van Zandt is an Italian-American musician, songwriter, arranger, record producer, actor, and radio disc jockey, who frequently goes by the stage names Little Steven or Miami Steve...

December 2007 David Hyde Pierce

David Hyde Pierce

David Hyde Pierce is an American actor and comedian best known for playing psychiatrist Dr. Niles Crane on the NBC sitcom Frasier, for which he received many accolades including four Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series.-Early life:Pierce, the youngest of four siblings,...

February 2008 Jay Leno

Jay Leno

James Douglas Muir "Jay" Leno is an American stand-up comedian and television host.From 1992 to 2009, Leno was the host of NBC's The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Beginning in September 2009, Leno started a primetime talk show, titled The Jay Leno Show, which aired weeknights at 10:00 p.m. ,...

April 2008 Tamara Tunie

Tamara Tunie

Tamara Renee Tunie is an American actress. She is best known for her portrayal of attorney Jessica Griffin on the CBS soap opera As the World Turns, and medical examiner Melinda Warner on the NBC police drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit...

June 2008 Joe Gannascoli, Tony Darrow
August 2008 Anthony Michael Hall

Anthony Michael Hall

Michael Anthony Hall , known professionally as Anthony Michael Hall, is an American actor, film producer and director who starred in several teen-oriented films of the 1980s. Hall began his career in commercials and on stage as a child, and made his screen debut in 1980...

  October 2008 Good Morning America's Sam Champion

Sam Champion

Samuel James Champion is the weather anchor of ABC's Good Morning America and weather editor of ABC News.-Early life and education:...

December 2008 Actress Julia Ormond

Julia Ormond

Julia Karin Ormond is an English actress who has appeared in film and television and on stage.-Early life and education:...

 February 2009 James Taylor

James Taylor

James Vernon Taylor is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. A five-time Grammy Award winner, Taylor was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2000....

 April 2009 Melora Hardin

Melora Hardin

Melora Diane Hardin is an American actress, best known for her roles as Jan Levinson on NBC's The Office and Trudy Monk on USA's Monk.-Early life:...

 June 2009 Rock of Ages (musical)

Rock of Ages (musical)

Rock of Ages is a rock/jukebox musical, with a book by Chris D'Arienzo, built around classic rock hits from the 1980s, especially from the famous glam metal bands of the decade. The musical features songs from Styx, Journey, Bon Jovi, Pat Benatar, Twisted Sister, Steve Perry, Poison and Asia, among...

 August 2009 Regina King

Regina King

Regina King is an American film and television actress. She is well known for her role as Mary Jenkins's studious daughter, Brenda Jenkins, on the 1980s sitcom, 227, and for her critically acclaimed supporting role in the feature film Jerry Maguire...

 October 2009 Bill Maher

Bill Maher

William "Bill" Maher, Jr. is an American stand-up comedian, television host, political commentator, author and actor. Before his current role as the host of HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, Maher hosted a similar late-night talk show called Politically Incorrect originally on Comedy Central and...

 December 2009 Sandra Lee February 2010 Ana Ortiz

Ana Ortiz

Ana Ortíz is an American actress and singer. She is a native of Manhattan, but was raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was a regular cast-member on the ABC comedy-drama series Ugly Betty, in which she plays the title character's older sister, Hilda Suarez...

 May 2010 Beth Stern July 2010 Green Day

Green Day

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 September 2010 Selita Ebanks

Selita Ebanks

Selita Ebanks is a Caymanian fashion model. She worked for Victoria's Secret and as a Victoria's Secret Angel from 2005-2008.-Early life:...

 November 2010 Dr. Oz December 2010 Bobby Flay

Bobby Flay

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 March 2011 Michelle Rodriguez

Michelle Rodriguez

Mayte Michelle Rodríguez , known professionally as Michelle Rodriguez, is an American actress. Following on from her breakthrough role in 2000's Girlfight, she is best known for playing tough-girl roles and starring in Hollywood blockbusters such as The Fast and the Furious, Resident Evil,...

Parties

Parties: The Boulevard has created an additional name for itself with its parties. Typically a Cover party is hosted in New York City or Long Island every other month. The parties are featured in the following issue of the Magazine. Additionally, the Magazine and its parties have been featured in the Daily News Page Six, Liz Smith, Newsday, the Post and several online media and radio outlets.

The Boulevard magazine was originally oversized pages as a newspaper. The magazine shrank to the conventional 8 X 10.5 in 2006.