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Created in 1995 by Dominick Miserandino, TheCelebrityCafe.com boasts 4.8 million unique readers per month and is rated as one of the top three entertainment magazines by Google. The site is also rated in the top 5,000 US websites based on traffic in Alexa.  With a team of over 50 experienced writers, TheCelebrityCafe covers everything from celebrity news to travel and product reviews, sports, politics and more.  A frequent guest on radio and television shows, Dominick is one of the most widely traveled journalists in the country and is a board member of the Press Club of Long Island, a pro chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. Dominick has received numerous awards from SPJ and recently received the 40 Business Leaders under 40 award.
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Black Sunday zine is a fanzine for headbangers and horror fiends.
  
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The zine's name is a dedication to a mixture of horror and the occult.
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It welcomes contributions but is soley written, edited and designed by it's editor Katie Dirge.
  
Dominick expanded TheCelebrityCafe.com's coverage with the creation of ToTheCenter.com (news and politics), CDInsight.com (music), SAHMAnswers.com (lifestyles), TrekkerTime.com (travel) and Sportsrageous.com (sports).
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It was created in December 2010 and it's first issue was released in September 2011. The zine comes out quarterly and is dedicated to new and well known heavy metal bands from around the world. It also covers new and classic horror movies featuring spotlights on certain movies and essays.
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The zine came from a lack of these sorts of self made publications. Katie knew that there were some great horror and heavy metal magazines but there was nothing out there in the way of a zine and that people could easily contribute to. Black Sunday was born.

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Black Sunday zine is a fanzine for headbangers and horror fiends.

The zine's name is a dedication to a mixture of horror and the occult. It welcomes contributions but is soley written, edited and designed by it's editor Katie Dirge.

It was created in December 2010 and it's first issue was released in September 2011. The zine comes out quarterly and is dedicated to new and well known heavy metal bands from around the world. It also covers new and classic horror movies featuring spotlights on certain movies and essays.

The zine came from a lack of these sorts of self made publications. Katie knew that there were some great horror and heavy metal magazines but there was nothing out there in the way of a zine and that people could easily contribute to. Black Sunday was born.