The editors of Miller-McCune and Miller-Mccune.com, a new 90,000+ circulation national print magazine and its extensive Web site, are looking for sophisticated magazine writers in Los Angeles. So we're going to a bar, of course. Lola's, actually, from 6-8 p.m. on Wednesday, June 18. This is a chance for accomplished journalists (and academic researchers who deserve a wide general audience) to get in at the start of the next great American magazine. Or, at least, to get a good stiff drink.

Date: Wednesday, June 18
Time: 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Location: Lola's
945 N. Fairfax Ave.
West Hollywood, CA 90046

Please (please) RSVP to: theeditor@miller-mccune.com

So what is Miller-McCune, anyway?

Miller-McCune magazine and miller-mccune.com are published by the Miller-McCune Center for Research, Media and Public Policy, a Santa Barbara-based public benefit foundation. Though different in frequency and form, both offer the highest level of journalism and bring concrete options for solving major public problems to a general audience. Miller McCune, a national print magazine that launched in April, focuses on significant policy researchers, practitioners and makers, explaining what they offer in the way of practical options for dealing with pressing social problems, here in the U.S. and around the world. It is a consumer magazine, not a scholarly journal, specializing in the sophisticated analysis and engaging detail characteristic of the finest narrative journalism.

The Center's Web site, miller-mccune.com, is devoted to three general types of content: breaking news stories about significant social problems; research that may provide ways of dealing with such problems; and commentary on the potential costs, benefits and outcomes of policy proposals. As it grows, the site will serve as an entry point for news of and commentary on the best solutions-oriented research across the country, and around the world.

Because of the magazine's solutions orientation, stories tend to focus more on options for dealing with public policy problems than on revelations of the problems themselves. Extra points for supporting evidence (especially in the form of original research and quantitative analysis), sophisticated argument and information not already beaten to death in the popular press. Deductions for ideological rhetoric and partisan towel-snapping, because Miller-McCune and miller-mccune.com are not magazines of the left, the right, or the center. They are magazines for people who know we can do better, and want to know how.