Time for the next installment of my “non-book” reading list.
You can read Post 1, Post 2, and Post 3 – and here is today’s “non-book” reading selection:
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
Wait, don’t trash me in the comments section just yet!
This magazine is glossy and the covers are occasionally racy (hence, no photo this week) but we are a pop culture driven society.
This magazine arrives in my mailbox on Saturday afternoon like clockwork (if only direct mailers were delivered so dependably), and I scan it most Saturday nights. It helps me stay up on the latest actors, movies, books, music and TV shows (99% of which I wouldn’t otherwise know about).
Full confession: If not for Entertainment Weekly I’d still be in the dark about Lady Gaga and Charlie Sheen… OK, so maybe I shouldn’t be recommending this magazine – ha!
One section that I enjoy is a humor section near the front of the magazine called The Hit List… it reads like a late-night comedy monologueue on the events of culture. Funny stuff!
The ‘don’t miss section’ for me is the Books section (no surprise, huh?) but second to that is the articles about the influence of pop culture (a solid article about once every six weeks) and the latest on the influence of music.
Honestly, the magazine was more beneficial to me when it featured a ‘pop culture’ column but Stephen King (yep, that Stephen King… he’s pretty insightful… no kidding) but I still find this to be the most helpful magazine I’ve found on exegeting culture without a huge political bent (say, like, Rolling Stone magazine).
I don’t read this to be hip… just to be current and ‘in the world’ but not ‘of the world.’
Check back next week for the next selection…
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