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Web Guide. With Webcasts streaming all over the place, a TV Guide-esque periodical was bound to happen. The Channelseek Guide is a monthly magazine created to let
viewers know what's playing on their monitors. Webcasts covered in the book are consumer-focused and the magazine requires a four-week lead time for pitches, which should arrive
via email ([email protected].) (Tom Britt, 317/585-6111.)

Happenin' Habitat. The maiden issue of dwell (September/October), a new bimonthly shelter magazine from Pixie Communications, is set to hit newsstands mid-summer. The
book will focus on stylish, yet accessible, designs of home interiors and exteriors. dwell will target affluent 25- to 40-year-olds in the hopes of filling the niche between
other consumer shelter magazines and architecture magazines that focus on the trade, but possess a small consumer following. The San Francisco-based book will launch with a paid
circulation of 50,000. (Andrew Wagner, 415/743-9990.)

Teen Turbulence. Parade Publications will close React magazine along
with its Internet component on June 5 because few advertisers are coming on
board. Contact: http://www.advanced.net...Meanwhile,
Rodale's MH-17 (PRN, Mar. 20) has been renamed MH-18 after Primedia filed suit
against the company for using the name. The magazine's launch plans are unchanged.