@Danny G Smith - Out of the ones I mentioned here, the Daily Edition looks awfully sweet with The Local coming in a close second. That's my opinion. I also come from a Joomla background and I'm finally beginning to think that WordPress themes are catching up.

@Martin - Well, I noticed a brief period where not EVERY theme that was being released was a news/magazine type layout. That is why I said it decreased somewhat but it never disappeared.

@Carl Hancock - I guess so. As I mentioned to Martin, I noticed that there was a bit more variety of theme and layout types arriving on the scene but now it looks like we are heading into another splash of themes with the news/magazine layouts. I imagine if they weren't popular, they wouldn't keep releasing themes of that style