Nomenus Quarterly: World's Most Expensive Magazine Costs $6,500

Nomenus Quarterly, the world's most expensive magazine, has raised its price from $2500 a copy up to $6500. The price hike comes by way of editor Erik Madigan Heck cutting the number of print copies from 50 to a mere 10 per issue. "So, given the current economic climate,...

Melissa Joan Hart Prays For Farrah Fawcett but for wrong reasons

Melissa Joan Hart was praying last week that ailing actress Farrah Fawcett would not die from cancer, which is nice right? But according to a conversation of hers that was overheard at KTLA studios in LA, the...

Condé Nast closes 'Portfolio'

Condé Nast Portfolio, the high-profile, serious business, monthly magazine, has announced its closing on April 27, 2009.Portfolio held a 100-person editorial staff under the leadership of editor-in-chief, Joanne Lipman. The launch of the magazine drew heavy coverage for the...

Women and the Fashion Magazine

 'The keynote of beauty and fashion magazines is an exaggerated concern with physical appearance so that other aspects of the complete human being are undervalued' - Elle McCracken. If we choose to believe this...

'Running in Heels' Aims for Documentary Quality on Style Network

The Style Network will begin airing a new one-hour reality TV series on Sunday, March 1 which revolves around 3 interns working at Marie Claire magazine.  Editor-in-chief Joanna Coles hopes that Running in Heels...

Chubby Rachael Ray Defends her Skimpy Pics in FHM Magazine

A chubby-looking Rachael Ray spoke to "Nightline" co-anchor Cynthia McFadden recently, and she defended her decision to pose provocatively in lad mag FHM.  "I thought if I'm gutsy enough to do this, this is a...

Rachael Ray : Cooking on ABC's Frontline

Cynthia McFadden gets to the meat of the Rachel Ray story and uncovers the bare facts of Rachel's FHM magazine photoshoot, her endorsement of Dunkin' Donuts and the ensuing Chef Anthony Bourdain criticism that...

Fashion's Onion: Worldwide Womenswear Digest (WWWWD) Spoofs WWD

What the Onion is to news, Worldwide Womenswear Digest is to fashion news.  Women's Wear Daily is one of the premiere sources for industry news, gossip, runway photos and the inside scoop on everything to do...

Gossip Titles Prosper Despite Overall Magazine Declines

Gossip magazines seem to be the only category within the consumer magazine industry in Canada that are seeing increased sales - even as most other titles are posting significant declines in readership and ad...

Justin Timberlake is GQ's 'Most Stylish' Man in America

Who would have thought that Justin Timberlake, he of Disney Mouseketeer and N'Sync  boy band notoriety, would go on to become not only a pop music superstar — but also the "Most Stylish Man in America"?...

Nude photo of 20 year old Madonna sells for $37,500 at auction

The photo of a nude 20-year old Madonna has sold at Christie's for $37,500. It is not known who bought the photo.Previously:A nude photograph of a 20 year old Madonna will go up for auction next month at Christie's...

Michelle Obama is Vogue's Cover girl next Month

This is a lttle unusual butstill a good choice.  This issue probably will sellmany magazines. "First lady Michelle Obama is on the cover of next month’s Vogue magazine, making her the second first lady...

India must support SL against LTTE: Cho Ramaswamy

Watch the video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-U0MA_2ZdyI&feature=channel_page"On a day when the LTTE Spokesperson Nadesan made it clear that LTTE chief Prabhakaran is still in Sri Lanka and is fighting...

More Job Cuts Expected at Conde Nast

It wasn't too long ago that Condé Nast cut a number of jobs, shut down underperforming magazines and canceled promotional events in an effort to conserve funds in the wake of global economic uncertainty, and now...

Vancouver American Apparel Store Fined for Displaying BUTT Porn

An American Apparel outlet in West Vancouver, a suburban city outside of Vancouver, British Columbia, has been fined $100CAN after displaying a gay porn magazine called BUTT in the store window. West Vancouver...

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