Boston Magazine

Boston magazine goes that extra mile for advertisers

adamg — Wed, 12 May 2010 20:44:11 +0000

Writers now getting tattooed with corporate logos. Don't worry, the tats are temporary - you wouldn't want to have them on display after the ad campaign is over.

Via Allston City Limits.

Apparently nobody at Boston magazine ever watched Zoom or heard of Robin Young

adamg — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:08:54 +0000

Boston magazine has a long article on the public-radio war between WBUR and WGBH that I'm sure is just absolutely fascinating, but which I'm having trouble reading because it's just so full of mistakes, starting with the very first paragraph:

Boston Magazine hiring online editor

adamg — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:18:28 +0000

Seeks energetic go-getter, presumably not afraid of getting let go the next time the owners change their Web strategy again, although the job really sounds more like an online producer's job, not somebody in charge of sallying forth into the 21st century or anything.

Here's why oldtimers always use pencil on their Rolodexes

adamg — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:58:38 +0000

James Burnett is out as editor of Boston magazine; he e-mails contacts that today is his last day. Comes a few months after an editorial shakeup at the company that owns both Boston and Philadelphia magazines.

Product placement in Boston magazine

adamg — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 20:53:49 +0000

Menu Pages Boston notices that every single cocktail in Boston Maggie's list of Boston's best cocktails requires a particular brand of vodka.

Boston Magazine drops best snarker on staff

adamg — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 01:46:26 +0000

The magazine has laid off blogger and general great writer Amy Derjue (whom you can still read at her personal blog).

People chosen by Boston Magazine as Boston's most powerful people declare themselves Boston's most powerful people

adamg — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:56:38 +0000

BoMag came up with its annual ranking by asking the people it's declared Most Powerful in the past to say who is the Most Powerful now. In other words, it's a perfect reflection of how America works today; them's who gots get more.

Note to Boston Magazine's online staff: Could you use some of your power and remove "wiki" from the title of that page? Because otherwise, you're going to look kind of silly in the sorts of circles that actually know what a "wiki" is. Granted, we don't have a lot of power, but that's a nice Wikipedia entry you got there, be a shame if anything happened to it, know what we mean?

Photographers to Boston Magazine: You want us to take photos for you? Pay us

adamg — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:45:18 +0000

Boston Magazine is doing a package on Boston architecture and asked members of the Boston Photo Mob on Flickr to take photographs of some specific buildings for free (but with a credit) because "our budget cannot accomodate payment."

Boston Photo Mob members reply: Yeah, right.

Do you think Boston Magazine would give you a subscription to their magazine for free if you told them "but hey, I'll tell all my friends how cool you are!"

Self-loathing at Boston Magazine

adamg — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 00:26:00 +0000

Adam Reilly notes the incongruity of a Boston Magazine article bemoaning the fact that the South End is filling up with your basic Boston Magazine readers - straight suburban whites who wear khakis as they sip their $11 cocktails.

Does Boston Magazine realize there's actually an election in Boston this year?

adamg — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 02:38:04 +0000

Apparently not.

L-O-L-A Lola

adamg — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 20:45:53 +0000

Joe Keohane makes some wonderfully snarky comments about the Globe's new fashion magazine, Lola (which issued a press release claiming it was published small enough to let women carry it in their purses - everybody who wants to carry a fashion magazine around in their purses, quick, raise your hands). Still, there's just something a tad, oh, ironic about somebody writing for Boston Magazine throwing stones at another fashion rag, especially when his comments are currently paired on the home page with a paean to the glorious fashion sense of the people who run Boston's high-priced clothing stores.

Boston Maggie scribes share burgers with Mass. Ave. masses

adamg — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 03:19:35 +0000

What to do when you order too many burgers for your burgers-and-beer lunch? Give the extras away on Mass. Ave., of course.

Whoa: Boston Magazine finally gets the Web

adamg — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 18:29:29 +0000

Note:Edited to reflect the fact that the site looks pretty much like it has for quite awhile (silly me; I hadn't visited the site in weeks, maybe months); an actual graphical makeover is still in the works.

For awhile now, Boston Magazine's Web site has featured the worst of Web 2.0ishness: A horrid color palette and big text in boxes with rounded corners (the design comes from Philadelphia Magazine, but it has more soothing colors).

But first evidence that the maggie actually does finally get the Web comes with its new Boston Daily Blog (with RSS, natch). It promises to be a daily must read, co-written by, among others, Snarkin' Joe Keohane, late of the Dig, and organized by our very own Amy Derjue.

Take Keohane on the sale of the Herald building:

Herald HQ Sold to Owner of Herald HQ

... Herald publisher (and landlord) Pat Purcell has sold the land (to himself and a few other guys), presumably so it can be redeveloped in such a way that helps address the area's dangerously low levels of unaffordable housing. ...

Hmm, if Boston Magazine can do it, what are the odds the Improper Bostonian's Web site will finally get on that bridge to the 21st century? Right, what am I thinking?

The Globe forces me to say something good about the Improper Bostonian

adamg — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 03:33:05 +0000

It's not just that the Globe dedicated FIFTEEN reporters, photographers and editors to its list of the 25 most allegedly stylish people in Boston. Or that it was spread over six pages (with four pages of non-stylish reviews weirdly stuck in the middle). Or that they somehow decided that city Councilor Michael Ross is more dapper than city Councilor John Tobin. No, what really got me about the whole thing was the intro (print only):

Consider this list firm proof that you are living in a new Boston. Publications in this city have forever pelted readers with lists such as "The 18 Best Places to Eat Crepes Suzette al Fresco" or "The City's Sexiest Podiatrists," but this is a list you've never seen.

Oh, where to begin?

A new Boston? The new Boston is "minority majority;" at least 51% of the residents of the city of Boston are not white. Of the 25 people on this list, 17 are white, three are black, three are Asian and two are Hispanic.

But, and this is the part that kills me: You have all these reporters and editors at a Pulitzer-winning newspaper collaborating on this thing and none of them thinks to do any fact checking? You know, two minutes with Google would have helped you avoid the embarrassment of having to retract your claim of being the first to ever think up such a brilliant concept. See, a year ago, Boston Magazine printed its own Fab 40 list of "the most stylish, sexy and dynamic Bostonians" (the cover). That's the same month the Improper Bostonian came out with its own list of Boston's 10 most stylish people. Gad, beaten by the Improper Bostonian!

At mAss Backwards, Bruce snarks several of the entries.

Yeah, like God forbid we be nice to each other in public

adamg — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 02:12:36 +0000

Deborah Elizabeth Finn glumly notes that ~~Conspicuous Consumption Monthly~~ Boston Magazine has deemed her smile-at-a-stranger plan a "Bad Idea." Although Lord knows why, since it would probably mean even more advertising from orthodontists for them.