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Robert Love EDITOR IN CHIEF
New for You: AARP Members Edition
We’ve launched an online site with the news, advice and entertainment you need—free for members
THE YEAR was 1994, and when my boss wasn’t paying attention, I put together a team of irregulars (we called ourselves the Six Pack), and we created RollingStone.com. It first appeared on the ancient-historical platform known as CompuServe—the one where your email address was a long string of random numbers. These were medieval times for the internet: Everyone was on dial-up. Remember the sounds? Beeps and screeches, followed by the boing-boing-boing and swirling static of your computer leaping the moat to connect to the web.
But that was then. Now, when it comes to finding the news and information we need, we’ve all made the journey from waiting patiently for the evening news or morning paper to expecting instant access on our phones to breaking news—as well as the answers to any questions that might come up over dinner.
That’s why AARP just made an addition to the ways we communicate with you. This magazine isn’t going away—it’ll still be delivered to your home six times a year, as will the AARP Bulletin. But in July, we launched a new online destination for daily news, stories, videos, discounts and more. It’s called AARP Members Edition (aarp.org/MembersEdition), and it’s loaded with the kind of information we know you want and need: health and money advice from experts, exclusive interviews, games, great reads and media that augments our magazine articles. (After you read our moving story about the man who leads the Uvalde High School mariachi band, follow a link to AARP Members Edition to see a slideshow of him and the kids he inspired to greatness.)
With new features added every day, AARP Members Edition hopes to provide the news and advice you seek, as well as the unexpected fun you didn’t even know to look for. Call it AARP THE MAGAZINE on digital steroids. It’s edited and curated just for you, and we hope you’ll check it out ... and keep coming back. Make it a daily habit. The new site is free for AARP members, and its information comes from AARP’s editors—so you can trust it.
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The Four-Timers Club
WITH THIS ISSUE, Kevin Costner enters an elite category: celebrities who have appeared on our cover four or more times. It’s such an elite category, in fact, that only three other people qualify. Are you as Costner-curious as we are? Find previous profiles of the star and filmmaker at aarp.org/MembersEdition.