Rolling Stone Queries Readers on Planned Redesign

The windows of Macy’s stores natonwide are spotlighting the new line of t-shirts that feature iconic Rolling Stone covers (the $36 purchase price includes a free one-year subscription), and now comes news that the magazine is pondering a major redesign and looking to readers for feedback. The New York Observer‘s John Koblin describes a test issue recently sent to some subscribers as “a tighter, smaller, glossier version of the current issue of Rolling Stone,” with covercandidate Barack Obama smiling down at his American flag lapel