The Improper Bostonian Magazine To Stop Publishing

BOSTON — The Improper Bostonian magazine that has been ubiquitous in shops around the city for more than a quarter century is shuttering today. In a statement posted to the magazine’s website Thursday, publisher Wendy Semonian Eppich said the magazine is closing for good.

“After nearly 28 years in business, we are closing The Improper Bostonian effective today,” wrote Eppich. “While this news might be surprising, the company has had a great run and we’re hopefully leaving this incredible city better and brighter since our inception in 1991.”

Eppich, who has published the magazine since she took over from her brother, didn't give a reason for the sudden closure.

After coming up with the name and a million ideas, Mark Semonian gathered a team of young, smart individuals, and a magazine was born in a loft in Brookline Village in 1991.

In 2003, Wendy Semonian Eppich, Mark’s sister, became publisher of the magazine, which she headquartered in the Pledge of Allegiance building in the Back Bay, where The Youth’s Companion, a 19th-century publication boasting some of the era’s most respected writers, including the person believed to have penned the Pledge of Allegiance once sat.

A little more than a quarter century after it was first published, the magazine boasted an audience of more than 426,000 readers. It put out 24 issues a year covering everything from food and fashion to arts and entertainment.

More to come.

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