Third time’s a charm. Drew Barrymore is reportedly engaged to her art consultant boyfriend, Will Kopelman, according to Us Weekly and People. The couple, who have been dating for at least a year, got engaged in Sun Valley, Idaho, over the Christmas holiday, according to the magazines. Us offers a sweet quote from a Kopelman “insider” — “He’s madly in love and knows she’s The One” — while People lets us know that they ate organic salads at a local cafe. Read full article > >

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Drew Barrymore reportedly engaged to Will Kopelman

Twenty-five years ago, Washington Post Magazine was launched. That doesn’t seem like many years, but life sure has changed. In 1986, terrorism was someone else’s problem, AIDS had only just become a household name, and we’d never seen a serious tech rally, much less a bust. Heck, Whitney Houston even had two hits on Billboard’s year-end singles chart. Read full article > >

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Washington Post Magazine’s 25th anniversary: 25 moments that changed Washington most since 1986

This is a charming, old-fashioned novel about a small-town girl with dreams of becoming a writer in the 1920s. She attends Vassar, moves to Greenwich Village and begins working for magazines, then travels to Paris to revel in the avant-garde literary scene for a few years before returning home to care for her ailing mother. Read full article > >

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Caroline Preston’s ‘Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt’: Lush jitterbug through ’20s

From chronicling the struggles of the civil rights movement to sponsoring a fashion caravan that stopped in big cities and small towns across the country, Ebony has proven to be much more than just a magazine for African Americans during its more than six decades of publication. In a Washington ballroom filled with crystal, sterling silver and glamour Saturday night, black-and-white images from the civil rights struggles of the 1960s were reminders of the magazine’s long and influential journey. Read full article > >

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Zines, small do-it-yourself publications that originated in the 1930s, are enjoying a comeback among the Web-savvy.

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Ping: Zines Have a Resurgence Among the Web-Savvy

As New York Fashion Week gets under way, fashionistas will be relying less on magazines and more on bloggers to tell them about the latest trends.

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The ‘ordinary’ people who hijacked fashion

5@5 is a daily, food-related list from chefs, writers, political pundits, musicians, actors, and all manner of opinionated people from around the globe. Whether it's dreams of opening their very own bakery, being the next 'Top Chef' or simply wanting to brush up on their knife skills, a growing number of the food-obsessed continue to flock toward culinary school – some straight out of high school, some swapping out their suits for chefs' whites midlife in hopes of a more savory lifestyle. But for some like Anthony Goncalves, a culinary degree isn't the end-all, be-all. Goncalves is the completely self-taught executive chef of 42 The Restaurant . And when we say self-taught, we should also note he's been named as “one to watch” by both Time and Esquire Magazines. Five Reasons You Can Learn to Cook Without Going to Culinary School: Anthony Goncalves 1. Humans start eating from the day you are born “Innately – like being born with an ear for music or an eye for design – you can be born with an inclination for flavors and how to combine them. While this ability is stronger in those who become cooks, we all have taste . It’s a question of trusting your taste which no amount of schooling can teach you.” 2. What is delicious can’t be taught “It is subjective, no matter what food critics would have you believe . While culinary school can teach you presentation and technique, the first thing to learn is how to make something taste good and that is, at its essence, very basic.” 3. Technique takes practice “No matter where you learn it – a cooking class, reading recipes in a food magazine, watching The Cooking Channel – you have to hone it to make it a skill that you can rely on.” 4. Passion definitely can’t be taught “Wanting to be a chef and being passionate about cooking, even if it’s just for your family, can be mutually exclusive – and there is nothing wrong with that. Most people will tell you they’d rather have a lovingly prepared home-cooked meal than any other kind. Learning to be the kind of restaurant chef who treats your customers that way is not a skill taught in school.” 5. Culinary students are used to putting in long hours … “But running a restaurant is a 24 hour-per-day, 7-day-per-week, lifelong endeavor. There is no getting around that. And no externship or stage can teach you that. That’s something you learn the day you open the doors of your restaurant – and keep learning as long as you are in business.” Is there someone you'd like to see in the hot seat? Let us know in the comments below and if we agree, we'll do our best to chase 'em down.

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5@5 – Why you can learn to cook without culinary school

BBC Magazines has agreed to sell the Radio Times after 88 years of ownership to the company that owns thetrainline.com.

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BBC agrees to sale of Radio Times

Here’s a great way for magazines to make more money: New York magazine has reportedly brokered a deal with International Creative Management to adapt its features for film and television. The New York Times is one of ICM’s other clients, and under…

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New York Magazine Looks for Movie Deals

Mr. Harman made a late-in-life splash by acquiring Newsweek magazine and wedding it with a sassy Web site, The Daily Beast.

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Sidney Harman, Newsweek Chairman, Is Dead at 92

Ousted after just 95 days on the job as chancellor of New York City public schools, former Hearst Magazines boss Cathie Black has opened up about her brief stint in the realm of education. Addressing whether heading America’s largest public school…

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Cathie Black: ‘I’m a Warrior’

South Africa’s subversive new publication takes on the country’s contemporary creative culture Founded to “really assault the dominant narratives in our own unique way,” the South African magazine Mahala goes against the typically glossy grain with an “un-designed” style that allows its similarly raw content to shine. The publication launched in August 2010 and, now on its second issue, supplements a daily website—both the brainchild of Andy Davis. Stories like “Surfing is Wanking,” “Racist Dogs” and “The Colonialism of Small Things”—to name just a few—shed light on topics that affect South Africans, but with its Vice magazine-style journalism, anyone interested in leading-edge culture will appreciate this unconventional upstart. We recently probed Davis to find out more about Mahala’s beginnings, its future, and the overall state-of-mind in South Africa. What do you most hope to accomplish with Mahala? I want to create a platform for a racially-integrated South African youth culture that can interrogate our experience, our culture and really just provide an impetus for people to make good, relevant stuff. South Africa is still a radically segmented place. And we’ve got a whole backlog of shit that’s been swept under the carpet and kept out of view. I want Mahala to pick at those edges, to go where the art, music, literature, etc. intersects with politics, society and weird-ass South African dynamics like race relations and socio-economic disparities. The online site tries to crunch through what’s happening in South Africa on a daily basis. We aim to publish three to four stories a day. The debates we get going in the comments show that our audience really gives a shit about what we say, and they have a stake in the culture so they all pile in and make their voice heard, which is a good thing. But it can be quite rough on the comment boards. We have a non-intervention policy. We don’t delete anything. If people want to hang themselves kak vibes, so be it. We hold the print magazine to a higher standard. We want people to read everything twice. It’s supposed to be a real collector’s item. But it also gives us the latitude to publish photo features, fashion, fiction and investigative journalism that isn’t always suited to online attention spans. What is the most challenging part of creating each Mahala edition? Getting the right mix of words and images, without being too gratuitous or going too hardcore, but still being able to interrogate the culture and experience. I think with our first issue we were sitting on so much unreleased content that we didn’t temper it properly. So it was a bit relentless. With the second issue we got the mix a bit better varying between depth and levity. There were some almost academic style articles, hard-hitting investigative journalism, some great narrative non-fiction, fiction and some nice humor. Another thing we really struggle to do is find good, black writers, photographers and illustrators. That’s not to say they don’t exist, it’s just that South Africa is so systemically fucked up thanks to apartheid that massive segments of the population were actively uneducated by the apartheid schooling system. So, generally speaking, anyone who is black, creative, talented and competent gets employed very quickly. And there just isn’t a plethora of young black talent beating down our doors, desperate to get published. And the last thing we want to be is a group of whiteys sitting around writing about black culture. We want to push this relationship into a “post-racial” space. Things are changing though, and it’s picking up pace. And we certainly don’t want to be those sad guys who do head counts based on skin color. But we’re still a long way off from the ideal of an equitable, meritocratic society. Does each edition have an underlying theme? Not yet, but we may be heading that way. I think at the moment, we don’t need to introduce over-arching themes because the culture is happening all around us and having a theme would necessarily occlude some of the most relevant and exciting stuff. Besides, I quite like the way the magazine jump cuts from narrative to narrative. I want them to stand alone and not have too much editorial unity. We always said Mahala would support a plurality of views, so it’s cool for each piece to stand alone and not be perceived as coming from central editorial authority. What can we look forward to seeing in Mahala 3? I think it’ll be bigger and better than Mahala 2. I thought there were some little failings in the last issue, that I’m glad to have the opportunity to rectify in the next issue. But those are mainly little publishing minutiae and insecurities. Generally the feedback has been overwhelmingly positive. At this stage a lot of the content is still in the air. We’re also working on a site redesign and, for our international readers, we’ll be making all the print mags available online as PDFs, from the next issue. To subscribe to the print publication or receive their daily updates, visit the Mahala website. Take our reader survey and enter to win a CH Edition Jambox!

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Frank Rich, who over the course of a three-decade career at The New York Times was theater critic, magazine essayist and Sunday Op-ed columnist, is leaving the paper to join New York magazine.

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Media Decoder: Frank Rich to Leave The Times for New York Magazine

Since the Daily Beast Web site merged with Newsweek, the accomplished editor is eager to avoid any hype about her plan to turn the struggling newsweekly around.

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Tina Brown’s Quiet Restart of Newsweek

Visual histories of fanzines, horror magazines and banned comics, and of the Italian shelter magazine Abitare.

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Visuals: Irreverence You Can Almost Touch