Sweet 'Honey' on the Rack

Honey, the fashion and entertainment magazine started by editors Kierna Mayo and and Joicelyn Dingle in 1999, will resurface this spring on the Web as honeymag.com. For black and brown girls who had been sorely in need of a magazine to call their own, Honey was a much-needed editorial balm when it launched. If you were the kind of chick who identified as much with Lauryn Hill as you did with Foxy Brown, was as likely to hit a poetry reading as Hot 97's Summer Jam, as apt to be reading Proust as the autobiograpy of Assata Shakur, i.e., if you were dynamic, you probably picked up a copy of Honey in its first incarnation and felt as if you were gazing into a beautifully embellished mirror. The magazine was bought by Vanguarde Media, changed editors (and changed moods), and eventually folded. News of Honey's relaunch was preceded by word that Vibe Vixen will also have a second life soon in print and on-line. (Honey online will be under the editorship of Shanel Odum.) Here's hoping they recapture their former glory.