Cover Me, I’m Going In: SI Swimsuit Edition 2012

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Jamie Reidy wonders how little is too little when it comes to bikinis and the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition.

Have Better Sex … Tonight?

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Shawn Peters, a.k.a. Mis(ter) Communication, wonders who those women’s magazine headlines are talking to.

MILFs and Happy Endings

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Is raunch culture invading our everyday language?

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The 10 at 10

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Bob Knight is tired, the Aflac duck is an idiot, and magazines make us feel bad.

Apps Can’t Save Magazines But Maybe We Can

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It has never been easier to fall in love with a magazine all over again. Please.

You Could Be the Next Editor-in-Chief of Newsweek

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As one of the last print-based newsweeklies on the market, Newsweek may represent an era of journalism that’s going the way of the broadsheet. (Don’t know what a broadsheet is? Exactly.)

Study of the Day: The Health Benefits of Celebrity Magazines

Tabloid Prescription

Today’s prescription: two doses of OK! and a shot of Us Weekly. We’re kidding (sort of), but according to a new study at the University of Missouri, celebrity tabloids may have a notably positive impact on the way their readers approach health issues. “Based on the discussion of participants, we observed that it is possible [...]

We Read Other Men's Magazines So You Don't Have To: Oh, the Agony of Zac Efron

Magazine: Details Issue: September 2010 Story: The Agony of Zac Efron by Andrew Goldman This month’s issue of Details features a lengthy cover story on Zac Efron, the peripherally grating, perennially grinning star of High School Musical whom we’re all more or less resigned to glumly stare at in the check-out aisle at Wal-Mart. But [...]