Ascent goes even higher; Shameless needn't be

[Note: This post has been corrected and updated.] For the second time, out of 5 straight nominations, Ascent magazine has won one of Utne magazine's coveted Independent Press Awards. The Montreal-based yoga magazine's win is announced in the just-published January-February issue of Utne. Every year, the staff of the magazine troll through some 1,300 independently published magazines to come up with a short list. Ascent has had a lock on nominations in the "Spiritual Coverage" category since 2000, and it was in that category it won this time (as it did in 2003). It was one of two Canadian magazines to win, including the Toronto-based Shameless in the Personal Life category, although New Internationalist, a British magazine with a Canadian franchise, was also a winner.