Comments on: LA Mag: A Review

By: gk

gk — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 07:36:36 +0000

I live in Santa Monica and I don’t like this new magazine either. I sure as hell don’t know anyone who buys these $78,000 dresses or diamond-encrusted Bluetooth headsets. Maybe they’re the whiny assholes who “write” for this thing? The sad thing, though, is that the L.A. Times has never managed to have a good Sunday magazine in the 20 or so years I’ve been reading it.

By: Malice

Malice — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:54:17 +0000

It was boring and stupid. I am so sick and tired of this westside-centric crap that passes for Los Angeles writing,

By: browne

browne — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 20:32:33 +0000

I bought a Sunday Times just to see LA Mag (is that who puts it out) anyways I just saw a Parade.

Cooking for you dog!!!! I’ve got to see what someone would cook for their dog. Is this dog a vegan dog or a cannibal dog or just a meat eating dog.

Browne

By: mattatouille

mattatouille — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:58:13 +0000

i hated the feel of the paper and the typeset was bland.
advertising is completely westside/glam driven. the name is utterly boring.

The uni article was pretty interesting though. But who just goes out and eats uni??

By: Pat

Pat — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 15:27:19 +0000

That is hilarious, El Chavo. I completely forgot to mention the insane cooking-for-your-dog story in my own rant. I appreciate fashion but there was nothing relevant to me there.

By: Urbanista

Urbanista — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:45:35 +0000

I received mine, thumbed through it and tossed it.

media kit and advertising rates.
https://advertise.latimes.com/portal/page/portal/LA%20Times/Content%20Items/2008LATMRateCard.pdf

http://webapp1.latimes.com/mediakit/index.html

By: loveandhatela

loveandhatela — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 19:52:03 +0000

Hey El Chavo
thanks for the informative and funny commentary. You sadly confirmed what i was dreading and hoping was not true about the LA, Los Angeles Times magazine.
I am not a subscriber to the LAT, so i get up every Sunday and haul my ass to 7-eleven on Olympic Blvd and buy it there.
I was upset that the magazine was only made available to the paying subscribers and not everyone.
This was the “Fall Fashion” issue, that is why maybe there was so much info or pics slanted towards that by the way.
I personally wanted to check out the ads and see what companies,retailers and brands were advertising.
From my sources, I heard that the ads were premium priced-$$$(a double page spread was going for up to $1 million dollars) and with a claim/pitch of 1,101,000 readers for this first issue and potentially up to 3,400,000 readers overall. Since most magazines get passed around to friends and family too sometimes.
Triste que this “old media” is not learning its lesson from the “new media”.
Mira donde fui a encontrar la informacion sobre la revista? at LA-eastside

muchas gracias and good job – keep it up!

By: chimatli

chimatli — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 19:44:12 +0000

“Dream on” if we think it will ever have any relevance to the Eastside!
I agree with you, from my perspective the whole magazine seems as if were written by culty kooks! Martians, dog cuisine, crystals, detached body parts, angels…Weirdos telling you how to behave and dress. With this rag, the cultural anthropologists of the future will be able to pinpoint the exact moment Western culture ceased to make sense.