It's the official end of summer this weekend and once again Entertainment Weekly magazine has provided us with a sentimental and thought-provoking list looking back with "25 Things Pop Culture Taught Us This Summer."
August 2008
August 29, 2008
August 28, 2008
August 27, 2008
Two Magazines One Camaro
The 2009 Chevrolet Camaro really must be "the most anticipated American muscle car in decades" as the cover of September's Motor Trend magazine declares because Car and Driver magazine also has the Chevy Camaro featured on its September cover. Both magazines opted for bright yellow Camaros, which makes us wonder if the other color choices are dismal. The new Camaros won't hit Chevy dealerships until March so we'll just have to wait to find out. For now, we'll drool over the magazine photo spreads. And in case you're wondering, Motor Trend magazine has a few more Camaro pictures in its 7-page story than Car and Driver's 4-page story.
August 26, 2008
ESPN & SEC Sign Record-Breaking TV Deal
Yesterday the Southeastern Conference and ESPN reached a 15-year, $2.25 billion deal to televise sporting events, including football and men's and women's basketball--making the SEC schools triple their current television revenue totals--from $5.3 million to about $15 million when combined with a deal announced with CBS-TV and surpassing the Big 12 schools as the top TV revenue money-makers. ESPN's Big 12 Network blogger Tim Griffin weighs in on why the SEC trumped the Big 12. For more college football preview coverage go here or here.
August 25, 2008
Sports Illustrated Produces Phelps Poster
Sports Illustrated announced today that it will release a commemorative
Michael Phelps cover poster available for mass distribution. The poster features Phelps wearing his eight Olympic gold medals. This is the
first time Sports Illustrated has published one of its covers as a
poster; before the magazine only produced posters from pages within
the magazine.
August 22, 2008
Harvard University is No. 1 on "Best Colleges" Rankings
This year
Harvard University got the No. 1 spot for national universities in the U.S.
News & World Report “Best Colleges” guide, which the magazine released this week. Surprisingly, it has been 12
years since the university topped the list. The magazine has published the definitive
guide since 1985 and if you are wondering about the ranking system read Robert
Morse’s blog “How We Calculate the Rankings,” in which the editor describes the
5-step process to ensuring data integrity.
August 21, 2008
Leland Chee Has the Coolest Job in the Galaxy
For “Star Wars”
fans Leland Chee has the coolest job in the world--continuity database administrator
for Lucas Licensing, which means he is the lord of the LucasFilm searchable
database on all things “Star Wars” including the movies, cartoons, video games,
comics and more. This month’s Wired magazine details Chee’s role in the
franchise’s devotion to brand continuity in “Master of the Universe.” The 7-page article is an interesting read (even for the tepid fan) into the galaxy far, far away.
August 20, 2008
Today at the Olympics
Today, while Jamaica's Usain Bolt broke a world record, BMX racing makes it Olympic debut. Check out Sports Illustrated for more must-see events.
August 19, 2008
Magazine Covers: Actress Loses Weight
Actress Jennifer
Love Hewitt is making the rounds lately on magazine covers including People, Us
Weekly and Health regarding her weight. For some reason this is creating a
stir.
Jennifer Aniston Gives You Good Life Advice
This month Good
Housekeeping magazine profiles Jennifer Aniston in “Jennifer Aniston’s 5 Step Happiness
Plan.” While the feature does name-drop Aniston’s upcoming film “He’s Just Not
That Into You” a half-dozen times, this story reads and feels like an atypical
celebrity profile in that the easy-to-read structure—5 paragraphs on the
actress’s take on various topics like home, self-care and friends—makes for an
interesting read (don’t expect any John Mayer tidbits here) without the usual distracting
conjecture.
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