Introducing Avenue’s New Owners

Introducing Avenue’s New Owners

For immediate release: Feb 13, 2023 RedPoint Media Group, Avenue’s publisher, announced that it has been acquired by Käthe Lemon and Roger Jewett. Today, RedPoint Media Group, Avenue’s publisher, announced that it has been acquired by Käthe Lemon and Roger Jewett....

RedPoint to publish BC Ferries onBoard magazine

RedPoint to publish BC Ferries onBoard magazine FEB. 16, 2016 — RedPoint Media Group Inc. is pleased to announce it has been named publisher of BC Ferries onBoard magazine. A new agreement with British Columbia Ferry Services Inc. will culminate in the launch of an...
Profile in Print: Further Magazine

Profile in Print: Further Magazine

Each spring, the Calgary Chamber of Voluntary Organizations, or CCVO, promotes and strengthens the nonprofit and voluntary sector. Each spring, the organization honours Calgarians who’ve shown exceptional innovation in the nonprofit sector with the Calgary...

WestJet Magazine Launches a Redesign and a New Name

WestJet Magazine Launches a Redesign and a New Name CALGARY (Jan. 27, 2015) – In January, WestJet Magazine and westjetmagazine.com revealled a new look and an enhanced reader experience. One of Canada’s most widely read travel brands, WestJet Magazine (formerly called...

Avenue Calgary Launches its Largest-Ever Issue

Avenue Calgary Launches its Largest-Ever Issue CALGARY (Oct. 31, 2014) – The largest-ever issue in Avenue Calgary magazine’s 20-year history hits newsstands Nov. 3, 2014. The 270-page issue features the highly anticipated annual Top 40 Under 40 list. Other content...
An Updated Logo for the Calgary Foundation

An Updated Logo for the Calgary Foundation

Since 1955, the Calgary Foundation has been connecting donors with community organizations for the long-term benefit of all Calgarians. The Foundation, and the city it serves, have come a long way since the 1950s. With its 60th anniversary year taking place in 2015,...

RedPoint wins Content Marketing Award

RedPoint wins Content Marketing Award CALGARY, Aug. 22, 2014 — RedPoint Media & Marketing Solutions is excited to announce that Spur magazine, published in partnership with The Calgary Foundation, has been honoured internationally with a 2014 Content Marketing...
The Hockey Lifestyle

The Hockey Lifestyle

Hockey Alberta has been overseeing amateur hockey in this province for almost as long as Alberta has been a province. The organization serves young players and adult leagues, as well as their coaches, referees, officials and supporters. In 2014, the organization came...

Avenue Calgary names 2014’s best neighbourhoods

Avenue Calgary names 2014’s best neighbourhoods CALGARY, July 31, 2014 — For the fifth year in a row, Avenue has asked Calgarians what makes a neighbourhood great. And they have answered. The result is the August edition of Avenue magazine — the annual Best...

Calgary Polo Style magazine launch set

Calgary Polo Style magazine launch set CALGARY, July 29, 2014 — In partnership with the Calgary Polo Club, RedPoint Media & Marketing Solutions is set to launch its newest publication, Calgary Polo Style magazine. The launch will take place Wednesday, July 30, at...
WestJet Magazine Redesign – Three Decisions

WestJet Magazine Redesign – Three Decisions

On Jan. 1, 2015, WestJet Magazine (formerly up!) and westjetmagazine.com were unveiled, revealed a striking new look. The redesign was many months in the making, and involved countless hours of thinking, experimenting and discussing, as the team translated big ideas...
Avenue is 20

Avenue is 20

As of 2015, Avenue has been telling Calgary’s stories for 20 years. That’s a respectable run for any print publication, and in a place this young, it means the magazine has been on newsstands (and now, the Internet) for a significant period of the city’s...

Avenue Magazine Welcomes New Publisher

Avenue Magazine Welcomes New Publisher MARCH 17, 2014 — RedPoint Media & Marketing Solutions is proud to announce that respected magazine executive Joyce Byrne has joined our team today as Publisher of Avenue magazine. Joyce will be responsible for the entire...
Going all-out for a good cause

Going all-out for a good cause

When Brown Bagging for Calgary’s Kids made a last-minute decision to launch a major holiday-season fundraising initiative, we kicked our creativity into high gear to help out. The organization makes and delivers lunches to students in Calgary schools who would...

Avenue Magazine Announces 2014 Best Restaurants

Avenue Magazine Announces 2014 Best Restaurants February 27, 2014 – Last night, Avenue magazine named Calgary’s 10 Best Overall Restaurants for 2014, and launched its 11th annual Best Restaurants issue, which hits stands February 28. The 10 top restaurants, selected...
up! Finds a New Way to Reach Its Destination

up! Finds a New Way to Reach Its Destination

At the end of October, the up! team sent its first-ever e-newsletter. Pressing send on an e-mail that’s heading to nearly 4,000 inboxes is never a relaxing thing to do. Fortunately, the stress of the task is less when you know the people on the receiving end already...
Shooting an up! Cover in California

Shooting an up! Cover in California

In September, RedPoint design director Steve Collins went to California to shoot the November up! cover with Los Angeles photographer Nicolas Randall. Here’s what it was like. “November is the shopping issue of up!, so we were trying to set the shopping...
Being the Top 40 Under 40 Editorial Intern

Being the Top 40 Under 40 Editorial Intern

The Avenue Top 40 Under 40 is the magazine’s flagship program, which recognizes some of Calgary’s most innovative and hard-working people. Released to the public each November, the Top 40 Under 40 list is a small document that is months in the making, involving the...
Food Writing

Food Writing

The cover of the October issue of up! magazine, WestJet’s inflight publication, looks good enough to eat. Inside, the magazine’s annual Food Guide is just as tempting. up! art director Teresa Johnston says, “Food is pretty and a pleasure to photograph. If...

Avenue Magazine Launches The Big Idea 2013

Avenue Magazine Launches The Big Idea 2013 MEDIA RELEASE September 30, 2013 – Building the city of our dreams — now that’s a big idea, and it’s what Avenue magazine’s annual Big Idea issue tackles for 2013. We’re kicking off the October magazine, on stands this week,...
Robot, Light Bulb, Rocketship, Beakerhead

Robot, Light Bulb, Rocketship, Beakerhead

Beakerhead is impossible to ignore. The mix of art, science and engineering seemed to explode out of nowhere in 2013, taking over the streets, schools and public spaces of Calgary with unusual experiences, objects and ideas, and sparking a sense of wonder in people of...

Avenue Magazine Best Neighbourhoods Block Party

Avenue Magazine Best Neighbourhoods Block Party MEDIA RELEASE August 15, 2013 – Arbour Lake is Calgary’s best neighbourhood, and this weekend we’re throwing the summer’s best party to celebrate it. Avenue magazine’s fourth annual Best Neighbourhoods survey named the...
Drama! RedPoint Joins Forces with ATP

Drama! RedPoint Joins Forces with ATP

Alberta Theatre Projects has been presenting new, contemporary and Canadian plays to Calgary audiences for more than 40 years. For the company’s 2014/2015 season, ATP marketing and communications director Kelly Phelan decided it was time to try something new: a...
Finding Calgary’s Best Neighbourhoods

Finding Calgary’s Best Neighbourhoods

Did you know Calgary has 193 neighbourhoods? The Avenue team knows that, and plenty more besides. You pick up plenty of information when you spend a few months sourcing and sifting through city data. For the fifth year, Avenue asked Calgarians what makes a...

up! magazine wins at TMAC

up! magazine wins at TMAC MEDIA RELEASE June 18, 2013 – up! magazine editor Deb Cummings has received the award for Best Family Travel Story for 2012 from the Travel Media Association of Canada (TMAC). The awards took place this past weekend in Saskatoon. Cummings’...
Inside Calgary Polo Style

Inside Calgary Polo Style

When the Calgary Polo Club struck a partnership with RedPoint to create a new custom magazine, our team knew it was time to raise our (polo) game. It’s a challenge managing editor Miles Durrie was excited to take on. Calgary Polo Style focuses on the equestrian sport...
Storytelling for Stampede

Storytelling for Stampede

The Calgary Stampede is a legend in this town. When RedPoint had the chance to sit down and write some really good stories for Stampede, we were thrilled. It was a great opportunity to talk about what Stampede does best, doing what we do best: storytelling. For those...
Selling the BOMA Calgary Building Guide

Selling the BOMA Calgary Building Guide

There aren’t many magazines with more than three decades of history in Calgary. That’s one of the reasons RedPoint was excited to add the BOMA Calgary Building Guide, the official publication of the Building Owners and Managers Association of Calgary, to our custom...
Building Momentum

Building Momentum

Momentum Community Economic Development Society is a Calgary non-profit that provides opportunity and hope to people living in poverty, by helping participants develop themselves in five areas: social, financial, human, physical and personal. In a nutshell, Momentum...

RedPoint wins 3 AMPA awards

RedPoint wins 3 AMPA awards RedPoint Media & Marketing Solutions was honoured March 14, 2013, when two of its publications, Avenue Calgary and WestJet up!, took home a total of three awards at the annual Alberta Magazine Publishers Association gala. Avenue won...
Raising Auspice Capital

Raising Auspice Capital

Auspice Capital Investors is an asset manager. It’s a team of experienced portfolio managers, led by president Tim Pickering, who work with clients to improve their financial portfolios. Auspice applies rules-based investment strategies across a range of financial and...

Avenue Magazine Announces 2013 Best Restaurants

Avenue Magazine Announces 2013 Best Restaurants MEDIA RELEASE March 1, 2013 – Last night Avenue magazine announced the 2013 Best Overall Restaurants as listed in the March issue, on stands now. The winning restaurants were revealed in front of just over 200 people at...