What are the characteristics of magazine?

Feature writing is writing an article for a magazine that is featured (mentioned) on the front page. It is different from a column in that the feature writer might not be left a space every week, and that the focus of the article is on a one off topic, not the author him or herself or a running topic.

For example:

Feature: 10 things guys hate about shopping!

Column: Today in Atheism - by John Davidson