This category-as-super-nav based theme from ThemeSpinner has a three-column HP layout and a two-column article layout.  Design features of note include a robust footer (most recent, most popular, recent comments), as well as some nice touches put to pages that are normally afterthoughts.

Article level pages feature the author (with gravatar), comments and page views – all which serve to set up the article nicely. The contributor pages, category-level pages and the search results pages all show thumbnails.

Overall, a great, cheaper premium theme for a content-focused site.

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Wordpress Designer, the shop behind Ashes and Smoke Signal is out with this “grunge” theme.

Has the look and feel of a more intimate … well, blog. And if I had to pick a musical genre I think I’d go for electro over grunge. Additionally, I’d classify this theme in the robust blog camp. Nice features include the design, big footer and 2nd tier of featured stories. Like the other Wordpress Designer themes, this includes image resizing and gravatars.

Love the prominent RSS feed, as well as the tabbed treatment up top. Could do with some integrated advertising, but I guess that wouldn’t be very grunge now, would it.

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The Revolution Series does what any theme claiming to be a magazine-style theme should do, and then some. Revolution Pro Media adds more multimedia to the mix than some of the other Revolution variations, such as Revolution Magazine or Revolution News. Flickr images and video is integrated prominently. A unique feature of this theme is the tagged/tags section of the main well, which for those of you who hate auto-scrollers/sliders, is a neat way to present a lot of information.

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