I've always dismissed advocacy magazines as being guilty of preaching to the choir. So when I had the opportunity to review Utne Reader, I was determined to approach it with skepticism and the ...

Utne Reader, a bimonthly magazine of stories from the alternative press, makes food the theme of its May-June issue with thought-provoking articles on this most universal of topics. Entries include ...

The Twin Cities-based Utne Reader will be moving to Kansas, though none of its current staff will be going with it. The alternative magazine's seven editorial staff members heard in mid-November that ...

Eric Utne, Minnesota native and visionary founder of the Utne Reader, didn’t intend to write a memoir but that’s what happened. “Far Out Man: Tales of Life in the Counterculture” (Random House, $28), ...

The Twin Cities-based Utne Reader will be moving to Kansas, though none of its current staff will be going with it. The alternative magazine’s seven editorial staff members heard in mid-November that ...

Utne Reader, the best of the alternative press, last night presented nine publications with Utne Independent Press Awards for outstanding journalism in 2010. The winners were announced at a ceremony ...

In a recent New Yorker cartoon, two parents regard their toddler, who stands by a window, trailing her wee fingers across the glass. "She thinks it's a touchscreen," the mother remarks. Funny as it ...

If there is anyone who knows how to detach a tongue from a frozen pole, it is Eric Utne — magazine founder, father of four boys and author of the new and wonderful “Cosmo Doogood’s Urban Almanac.” ...

Nina Utne went to nursery school on a farm, so she “made the connection real early between the animals you see and the meat you eat,” as she likes to put it. Result: Utne became a vegetarian before ...