Overview

It was founded in 1974. In 1987, Janet O'Grady and Randy Beier founded the publishing firm

Publishing

Publishing is the process of production and dissemination of literature or information—the activity of making information available to the general public...

 Ridge Publications and rebranded it as a luxury

Luxury

Luxury may refer to:*Luxury good, an economic good or service for which demand increases more than proportionally as income rises*Luxury tax, tax on products not considered essential, such as expensive cars...

 lifestyle magazine

Lifestyle magazine

Lifestyle magazine is an umbrella term for popular magazines concerned with lifestyle. There is no universally accepted definition of what constitutes a lifestyle magazine: it is often used to encompass a number of men's magazines, women's magazines and magazines about health and fitness, tourism,...

. Its main themes are culture, fashion

Fashion

Fashion, a general term for a currently popular style or practice, especially in clothing, foot wear, or accessories. Fashion references to anything that is the current trend in look and dress up of a person...

, cuisine

Cuisine

Cuisine is a characteristic style of cooking practices and traditions, often associated with a specific culture. Cuisines are often named after the geographic areas or regions that they originate from...

, health

Health

Health is the level of functional or metabolic efficiency of a living being. In humans, it is the general condition of a person's mind, body and spirit, usually meaning to be free from illness, injury or pain...

, local personalities, travel

Travel

Travel is the movement of people or objects between relatively distant geographical locations. 'Travel' can also include relatively short stays between successive movements.-Etymology:...

, luxury, sports, and nature

Nature

Nature, in the broadest sense, is equivalent to the natural world, physical world, or material world. "Nature" refers to the phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general...

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It has a circulation of 100,000 paid readers for each issue. It publishes six issues a year, in January, March, May, July, August, November. It also publishes a supplement, the Art Gallery Guide.