Anybody who would like to check out another magazine style theme, have a look at:
http://wordpressready.com/2010/02/clone-freemium-child-theme-for-thematic-based-on-freemium/
This theme was ported from the original to use the Thematic Framework.
I just happened to notice this magazine theme and am not the author.
Let us know if you give this one a whirl how it goes then. :
There's also an article on the wordpressready site describing the process of converting this theme to use Thematic, so there's a great tutorial also!
I had posted some of this in another thread but am adding it here also, thought it would help people looking for this theme or a magazine news style theme.