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...modern-day interpretation of New Testament verses offered by Real, the newest Bible magazine, or biblezine, from Christian publisher Thomas Nelson Inc., based in Nashville, Tenn. The company's biblezines--which include Becoming (for women) and Refuel (for teenage boys)-- carry the New Testament with the look of a newsstand glossy, replete with pictures and sidebars that offer prayer, relationship, even beauty tips. Real, which debuted in July, targets young hip-hop fans. Rap renditions of stories like the parable of the mustard seed, are labeled "The Script" and scattered throughout the book. Revolve, a biblezine for teenage girls, includes...
...certain degree. I don't have the obsession with it, but at the same time, if I'm walking by a newsstand, and it says, "JUDE DID THE NANNY," I am going to stop and I am going to read. I can't deny it. I'm intrigued. When people ask me why these magazines are so successful, I think it's partly celebrities, but I also think it's a love of gossip. When we gossip about our friends, we feel guilty, we feel that this evil twin part of us was doing it. Afterwards, you have that hangover...
...Well, it's been interesting for me. You would think that as other magazines started to explore some of that, it might hurt us. But we are by far the newsstand leader now, in a bigger way than we've ever been. Our nearest competitor, Glamour, is now over a million copies less than us on the newsstand. Maybe it's just because it's so much part of our mission. Sometimes when you try to do something that really falls into somebody else's territory, it's very hard for them...
...material last week in not one but two flesh magazines, Playboy and Penthouse. The pictures are unremarkable art school stuff, black-and-white studies of Madonna reclining on couches and sitting on windowsills. The real pleasure came from watching Playboy and Penthouse trade taunts in an old-fashioned newsstand...
...years, Gary Newmark has sold magazines at Nini’s Corner Newsstand. From his post looking over Harvard Square, he says he sees fewer people walk by with bags every year...