This is Maura Magazine’s 20th issue! It’s been a fun road and one not without its bumps along the way, and I am so grateful that you are reading this right now. This issue is also pretty special to me because it marks the first time I’m publishing Tom Ewing, whose early-millennium thoughts on pop music helped shape my critical outlook more than any other writer out there, and whose unwavering support of me once led to us having a Transatlantic phone conversation about us starting a magazine—a seed that took more than a decade to flower, but one that I am forever grateful to him for planting in the first place.