Time’s burning red cover has a London looter staring at us in depicting “the decline and fall of Europe (and maybe the West).” Inside, Fareed Zakaria explains why liberals are wrong about Obama; another feature asks, Does the GOP need Perry? Newsweek pictures five surgical hands ready to scalpel open an anxious patient in illustrating the “one word that will save your life,” that is, “No!”—the point being that some common tests and procedures “aren’t just expensive, but can do more harm than good.” Inside Obama apparently has a “black problem,” and Jane Fonda assures us that there is joy in sex after 70.
Entertainment Weekly has a double-issue fall movie preview featuring Breaking Dawn, Sherlock Holmes 2 and “all the buzz” on 98 new films.
Billboard brings us the return of Coldplay (“finally”), but also has a report on the destruction of London’s Sony distribution warehouse during the rioting. On the other hand, it offers a special feature on the surprising recovery of Japan’s music industry in the wake of that country’s disasters this year.
Hollywood Reporter takes on “The Business of Fantasy Football” with San Diego Charger Antonio Gates and obsessed player Paul Rudd. Inside’s a feature on what men watch when they’re not playng fantasy football, with American Idol leading the broacast TV shows, WWE Raw on cable (ESPN’s their fave network).
Finally, we dig the Bloomberg Businessweek cover for its Popularity Issue, which covers a model with 34 popular items, including Tide detergent, French’s mustard and Oreo cookies. Same with The Economist, whose “Reviving the world economy” cover plays on Dutch masters group portraits, here a group of doctors—and one central banker—about to administer electric shock to bring an economic stiff back to life.
Monday, August 15, 2011
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Wednesday morning magazine roundup
That was our big sigh of relief you just heard, as we saw People’s cover: “How Sandra [Bullock] got her groove back!” We weren’t sure if she ever would! And how about the class juxtaposition with the top story on the right-side strip: “Navy Seal Tragedy—portraits of courage.”
But maybe Us wins with Jen Aniston “trying for a baby!” That’s a shocker! Us matches Peeps with its George Clooney summer romance bit on the strip.
In Touch wonders if Jen isn’t preggers already with its cover insert pic to go with her “Shotgun Wedding!” glam shot. Star says she’s even made it official—the baby, that is. But back to Kim’s wedding at OK! USA, with her untrustworthy sisters Kourtney and Khloe revealing “secrets” like her “obsessing over everything from the gown to the guest list.”
Life & Style also has a “secret” Kardashian wedding photo album, plus Jen wedding/baby news. But the cover trumpets the alarming news that Kate is refusing to eat—and has dropped “another five pounds.”
Bazaar’s fall fashion issue fronts Glee’s Lea Michele; Elle’s fall fashion special goes with Gwyneth, who’s “smart, hilarious, and the girl can sing”—at least that’s what the cover says. Details also has a fall fashion theme, but with Ashton Kutcher on the cover. Seventeen’s “ultimate back-to-school issue” has Pretty Little Liars pretty Ashley Benson on top.
Cosmo also goes Glee with its Dianna Agron cover—actually, three covers in succession (we prefer the “elegant sexy” one). Marie Claire has Sarah Jessica Parker “on the things she doesn’t talk about in her marriage” (which, incidentally, we don’t really need to hear about).
“There’s something about Zoe Black,” says Ebony’s cover, said something being “black, Latina, fierce,” etc. Essence competes with a Tracee Ellis Ross “exclusive” on being back on BET’s new Reed Between The Lines.
Dr. Oz shows you how to live to 100 (and live well) over at Men’s Fitness. Maxim’s got Sandra Vergara, “Sofia’s smokin’ little sis,” beating out Nylon’s Paul Rudd cover by a longshot. But we do like Ny’s feature on Jeff Bridges, definitely “our kind of guitar hero.”
Finally, Time Out New York closes out the summer with “60 things to do before summer ends.”
But maybe Us wins with Jen Aniston “trying for a baby!” That’s a shocker! Us matches Peeps with its George Clooney summer romance bit on the strip.
In Touch wonders if Jen isn’t preggers already with its cover insert pic to go with her “Shotgun Wedding!” glam shot. Star says she’s even made it official—the baby, that is. But back to Kim’s wedding at OK! USA, with her untrustworthy sisters Kourtney and Khloe revealing “secrets” like her “obsessing over everything from the gown to the guest list.”
Life & Style also has a “secret” Kardashian wedding photo album, plus Jen wedding/baby news. But the cover trumpets the alarming news that Kate is refusing to eat—and has dropped “another five pounds.”
Bazaar’s fall fashion issue fronts Glee’s Lea Michele; Elle’s fall fashion special goes with Gwyneth, who’s “smart, hilarious, and the girl can sing”—at least that’s what the cover says. Details also has a fall fashion theme, but with Ashton Kutcher on the cover. Seventeen’s “ultimate back-to-school issue” has Pretty Little Liars pretty Ashley Benson on top.
Cosmo also goes Glee with its Dianna Agron cover—actually, three covers in succession (we prefer the “elegant sexy” one). Marie Claire has Sarah Jessica Parker “on the things she doesn’t talk about in her marriage” (which, incidentally, we don’t really need to hear about).
“There’s something about Zoe Black,” says Ebony’s cover, said something being “black, Latina, fierce,” etc. Essence competes with a Tracee Ellis Ross “exclusive” on being back on BET’s new Reed Between The Lines.
Dr. Oz shows you how to live to 100 (and live well) over at Men’s Fitness. Maxim’s got Sandra Vergara, “Sofia’s smokin’ little sis,” beating out Nylon’s Paul Rudd cover by a longshot. But we do like Ny’s feature on Jeff Bridges, definitely “our kind of guitar hero.”
Finally, Time Out New York closes out the summer with “60 things to do before summer ends.”
Monday, August 8, 2011
Monday morning magazine roundup
Stark contrast between Time and Newsweek: Time’s got a black-eyed George Washington dollar-bill illustration to go with “The great American downgrade” cover story (related features include “How the Tea Party hijacked Ameirca,” “The wealth gap widens” and “Lessons from the debt debacle”), while Newsweek offers a presidential portrait of Michele Bachmann, “the queen of rage,” on “God, the Tea Party, and the evils of government.”
Bachmann is big at The New Yorker this week, too. With a telling cover illustration of a trio of tuxedoed gents living it up in a lifeboat while the Titanic sinks in the background, the big story is “Leap of faith: The making of Michele Bachmann.” More delectable, perhaps, is “Grub: Eating bugs to save the planet,” about the apparent “final culinary frontier.”
Billboard has “cream of the global hip-hop party scene” LMFAO on the cover and has an excerpt from the book Def Jam: The First 25 Years Of The Last Great Record Label. The Hollywood Reporter, meanwhile, goes full hype forward on “The inside story on Terra Nova,” said to be “fall’s most anticipated new show” and “TV’s most ambitious project,” with the cast pictured on the cover in a woodsy outdoors setting.
Bloomberg Businessweek gets noticed for its striking aerial cover photo high above the subject of “The saving of Ground Zero.” And finally, we note, too, The Economist’s cover illustration of a hungry shark lurking beneath a forlorn female testing the water alongside the “Time for a double dip?” heading—if only because it goes so well with today’s stories about 61-year-old Diana Nyad’s start of her 103-mile swim between Cuba and Florida in hopes of setting a record for open-water swims without a shark cage, and the discovery of a large shark discarded in the woods of New Hampshire.
Oh. Yes, we did miss Wednesday’s magazines, as we were in Jonesboro, Arkansas, for the inaugural Johnny Cash Music Festival. If you're interested, go to the Jim Bessman page at examiner.com for extensive coverage.
Bachmann is big at The New Yorker this week, too. With a telling cover illustration of a trio of tuxedoed gents living it up in a lifeboat while the Titanic sinks in the background, the big story is “Leap of faith: The making of Michele Bachmann.” More delectable, perhaps, is “Grub: Eating bugs to save the planet,” about the apparent “final culinary frontier.”
Billboard has “cream of the global hip-hop party scene” LMFAO on the cover and has an excerpt from the book Def Jam: The First 25 Years Of The Last Great Record Label. The Hollywood Reporter, meanwhile, goes full hype forward on “The inside story on Terra Nova,” said to be “fall’s most anticipated new show” and “TV’s most ambitious project,” with the cast pictured on the cover in a woodsy outdoors setting.
Bloomberg Businessweek gets noticed for its striking aerial cover photo high above the subject of “The saving of Ground Zero.” And finally, we note, too, The Economist’s cover illustration of a hungry shark lurking beneath a forlorn female testing the water alongside the “Time for a double dip?” heading—if only because it goes so well with today’s stories about 61-year-old Diana Nyad’s start of her 103-mile swim between Cuba and Florida in hopes of setting a record for open-water swims without a shark cage, and the discovery of a large shark discarded in the woods of New Hampshire.
Oh. Yes, we did miss Wednesday’s magazines, as we were in Jonesboro, Arkansas, for the inaugural Johnny Cash Music Festival. If you're interested, go to the Jim Bessman page at examiner.com for extensive coverage.
Monday, August 1, 2011
Monday morning magazine roundup
Small shipment of magazines to start off the August summer doldrums. But Billboard thinks big with its 2011 D.I.Y. Manual, as in, “do it yourself”, as in, specifically, “Win big in the music biz—100-plus tips for doing it your damn self.” Among the many ideas aned suggestions pictured in the colorful cover illustration, the one that caught our eye is “Bands Kickstarter is making happen,” Kickstarter being the suddenly popular time-sensitive Internet funding platform for supporting creative projects. Indeed, we’re seeing all kinds of artists using Kickstarter via Facebook to try to raise money for future projects.
Hollywood Reporter’s Philanthropy Issue offers “a photographic tribute to the angels of L.A. who help support the arts, environment, education and children.” Disney president/CEO Robert Iger and his journalist wife Willow Bay take the cover for supporting such causes as pediatric AIDS. Inside stories include the 25 best film school rankings and the winners and losers of this year’s Comic-Con.
The New Yorker’s cover illustration of a woman pushing a buggy into Central Park doesn’t really cut it. The big story inside is “Inside the raid on Bin Laden,” with “Obama in default” highlighted in a corner strip.
Finally, New York pictures Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman as the “Cain & Abel of American politics,” and suggests that either of the two rich Mormon ex-governors, who can’t stand each other, might beat Obama—if they don’t kill each other first. Inside, Frank Rich describes how Murdoch hacked the USA.
Hollywood Reporter’s Philanthropy Issue offers “a photographic tribute to the angels of L.A. who help support the arts, environment, education and children.” Disney president/CEO Robert Iger and his journalist wife Willow Bay take the cover for supporting such causes as pediatric AIDS. Inside stories include the 25 best film school rankings and the winners and losers of this year’s Comic-Con.
The New Yorker’s cover illustration of a woman pushing a buggy into Central Park doesn’t really cut it. The big story inside is “Inside the raid on Bin Laden,” with “Obama in default” highlighted in a corner strip.
Finally, New York pictures Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman as the “Cain & Abel of American politics,” and suggests that either of the two rich Mormon ex-governors, who can’t stand each other, might beat Obama—if they don’t kill each other first. Inside, Frank Rich describes how Murdoch hacked the USA.
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