New York City -- In the master control room, four screens reveal what's currently showing on the four stations of the Manhattan Neighborhood Network (MNN). On the first one, a teenager in a wife-beater lip syncs to "Singin' in the Rain," rain drops plopping on his nose as he leap-frogs...

Jane Magazine has been gone for less than 36 hours, and already people seem to agree on what should be engraved on its tombstone: "Nice magazine, but never quite lived up to her older sister Sassy."

I, like so many women in their twenties and thirties, was a Sassy reader....