About
R4NT (Reading For New Times) was a Calgary independent magazine published from March 2001 through October 2010. This is the complete archive, restored from the original WordPress database and gap-filled from the live static export.
What you’re looking at is roughly nine and a half years of music reviews, restaurant write-ups, films, games, wine, festivals, photography, original short films, and a handful of years of a podcast called R4NT Radio — written by 82 contributors across two sister sites: the magazine itself, and a behind-the-scenes companion at blog.r4nt.com.
The site went through several major redesigns — custom CMSes between 2001 and 2008, then a final move to WordPress for the v8 era. The visual identity here (the wordmark, decorative pieces, the flame icon) is recovered from that final v8 theme.
By the numbers
Magazine
- Articles
- 669
- Contributors
- 76
- Categories
- 18
- Tags
- 151
- Years
- 2001–2010
Blog
- Posts
- 529
- Contributors
- 13
- Categories
- 33
- Tags
- 361
- Years
- 2005–2011
Read more
The about section is broken out into longer pieces. New ones land here over time.
Chronicle
Restoring the archive
How a 2008 SQL dump, a flat HTML mirror, a 2015 blog backup, and a folder of recovered uploads got stitched into one site — plus the editorial pass that came after, and the audio and video rescue work.
Stories
From the early days
Pieces about the magazine, the people who passed through it, and how a small Calgary publication came together in the first place. First ones coming together now.
How to browse
Start with the full archive, browse all categories or tags, jump to authors, head to the blog, search at the top of any page, or just roll the dice.