Media Reviews
BLENDER magazine
BLENDER magazine is nonstop fun fun fun. I have a lot on my mind and do a lot of heavy intellectual reading — because I like to, frankly — and this magazine is always a great vacation from worry and deep thought. For example, every month they feature …
Daily Citizen
Everyone knows that the best way to stay informed about what is going on in town is by subscribing to the local paper. In Beaver Dam, WI, that’s not the case.
The local paper, the Daily Citizen, has been around longer than I have. And, at one time, it was …
BBC World Service Radio
I started listening to BBC’s World Service programming about a year ago. The public radio station in my community would broadcast the British news service overnight from about midnight to 5am, when NPR took over. Although it still represents a Western viewpoint, I have found that the …
Baby Talk Magazine
This magazine is always interesting and encouraging to me. I’ve been reading back issues, and even if I read two a day for weeks, every issue is still informative and fresh and new. I thought I would get tired of them, or they would start repeating information, but that’s …
The Fountain Magazine
The Fountain magazine was a little publication I ran across one day and new I had to add to my reading. It is one of those scholarly, but still pleasure reading types of publications that you just do not come across anymore.
The Fountain strives to publish essays …
My Home Magazine
My HOme is one of the local interior design magazines in the Philippines. I first chanced upon this magazine in 2003 and since then I have been an avid supporter of My Home-never failing to get a copy of their montly issue and encouraging other people who are into …
Business Licenses and Permits
“Business Licenses and Permits” by an unknown author at entrepreneur.com is an article for business owners about various types of operating permits and licenses they will need to legally run their business.
I think it is important for new business owners to know what type of licenses and permits they …
The Howard Stern Show
I have recently become of the Howard Stern show thanks to Sirius satelite radio. I enjoy the funny comments, Robin Quivers, Howard Stern, Artie and Richard Christy most of all.
Howard Stern has entertaining and amusing guests, the Howard Stern show touches on current events, keeps up with …
Nintendo Power Magazine
Nintendo Power is a Nintendo-product-oriented magazine that provides up-to-date news on upcoming games, exclusive content, and reviews of games and Nintendo products. The magazine usually has a central focus, one particular game that gets the biggest feature and review, but covers a wide range of games for all …
WRAL Morning News
I’m not really a morning person, but when Im up I like to watch the morning news on WRAL. What I really like about their newscast is the personalities. My favorite is Mark Roberts. He has a lot of energy and gives a good representation of what traffic is …
Dana & David “Only Gold” (magazine ad)
Here is yet another multi-page commercial for the marketing of jewelry by a company called Dana & David. Personally, I have never heard of this particular jewelry company. But the first page, showing only a bar of pure gold, is incredibly arresting. It …
Family Fun Magazine
I was sipping a cup of coffee this morning and flipping through the latest episode of Family Fun. And I thought to myself, ‘Family Fun Magazine is truly a great family magazine.’
Now, before you roll your eyes or think I work for the company or some subsidiary, let me …
Spark Magazine/ The News Journal
Spark is the newest publication produced by The News Journal paper in Wilmington, Delaware. It is acutally a free publication, which is great, because it virtually contains all of the same information that much of the News Journal does. It is a publication designed to attract readers …
LG Dare Verizon Cell phone (TV commercial)
These cellular phone are really becoming the newest thing. I mean they are all the rage. Cell phones these days do more than personal computers did when they first emerged on the scene. This is the premise behind the LG Dare phone. These …
Article: “Put A Little Science In Your Life” by Brian Greene
“Put A Little Science In Your Life” by Brian Greene is an op-ed piece about how important science is, yet, no one really understands it or uses it in their lives.
First, the article begins with a reference to a letter Brian received from a soldier in Iraq. Instead of …
Sunday Contact with Ralston McKenzie radio programme
I have always thought that Jamaican radio on Sunday, and especially Sunday evenings could be quite monotonous for a young person, even though after coming to listen to my parents talk about what it used to be like, I realize it is much better now. These days, and even …
DNA Daily News & Analysis
Times of India Newspaper famously known as TOI had a near monopoly run in Mumbai. No Newspaper could break its hold on Mumbai. It remained so, until DNA (Daily News & Analysis) arrived in picture three years back. Though Times of India still remains as the number one …
BBC Radio1
Being a UK resident, i know many of the radio stations. This includes BBC2, 1 and 4. Now, as this review is on Radio 1, that will be the main subject.
Now, let’s get started then!
Radio 1 has got just about every type of music, well not classical music, and …
Life Takes Visa (magazine ad)
I have seen the television commercials where the Life Takes Visa slogan is punctuated by all sorts of gregarious activities. It makes people want the freedom that a credit card sometimes feel like it’s providing. In this magazine advertisement, a guitar with five necks and five sets …
The New Yorker Conference (magazine ad)
What in the world is this you ask? I had to read the page (which as NO pictures or photos) to realize that this event which took place on May 8th and 9th was a conference of visionaries in all different fields in the world. The …
Lionsgate (magazine ad)
I have never ever seen an ad for a movie house before. Furthermore, I have never seen a production house use a line of films by a specific director, to market the production company. Lionsgate is actually one of my favorite production companies because they tend …
Euphoria perfume (Calvin Klein fragrance ad)
Facing you is a young woman, about 18 - 22 years in age. You can never tell because models these days are so young, and made to look so mature, that you could actually be looking at a 14 year old girl and would never know. …
HyattPlace.com (magazine ad)
I don’t stay in hotels too very often. But this commercial for Hyatt hotels is a very convincing way to get people to think again about staying there. In any case, a woman is shown sitting on a huge sectional sofa. Her feet are …
Birds and Blooms magazine
If you love the outdoors and bird watching, you’ll love the Birds and Blooms Magazine. Each issue is loaded with bird pictures. Although many pictures and most of the magazine is written by professionals, a great portion of each edition is made up of reader contributions.
One of my …
Star magazine
I hate to admit it! but, yeah I do buy this tabloid weekly magazine.
To read about the best beach bods and the worse one’s. It really surprises me how the celebrities will put on the very slinky bathing suits and not look their best knowing they are in the …
Bain de Terre Sugar & Fig Scalp massage scrub (magazine ad)
Now this is really a strange product. A scalp massage scrub? I have never heard of this before. But I won’t knock it until I’ve tried it. In reading this ad, I see that the caption indicates that the product exfoliates the scalp, leaving it …
Converse.com (magazine ad)
This page is full of celebrities who are all wearing Converse sneakers. However, I can only recognize two of them: Santogold and Pharrell. The others are most definitely musicians, as this a mic stand positioned behind one of the other “models.” The ad itself is in …
Gadgets Magazine
The economic crunch has made me realize that I should be a little more circumspect in my shopping. I just cannot resist buying on impulse. To stop myself from grabbing the first thing I see and to put some discipline in me, I have taken to window shopping through …
Magic Pot Magazine for kids
I am buying a weekly magzine called “Magic Pot”, exclusively for Nursery & primary School kids. I am amazed of the yhis book , Because this book has lot of activities for better brain activities, such as Dot joining, Colouring, Moral stories, Epic stoties etc.There are some exercises …
Men’s Health Magazine
My brother is a health conscious person, with this he buys himself a lot of stuffs to read about just so to be able to maintain a so called “healthy living”. One of the few magazines he regularly buys is the “Men’s Heatlth Magazine”. He practically has every monthly …
Chadder’s Science Adventure - Day 4 (DVD)
I had volunteered to help teach Vacation Bible School this summer for the first time! I signed up to be an assistant in Chadder’s Cinema Science!
In Chadder’s Cinema Science we watched a video each day entitled Chadder’s Science Adventure and also did a small experiment to go along …
The Times Of India
The Times of India is a prominent newspaper of English published in India. It has become as the most widely circulated English Daily of the world. The paper is run by the Bennet Coleman and Company Limited. I have been reading this newspaper since my childhood and will continue …
NBA 2K8 PS3 (magazine ad)
If the photograph displaying this Sony Playstation game is any indication of what the graphics will look like if I were to pull the game out of the box, then I might have to go and buy one of these gaming systems for myself. I am not …
Canon Power Shot SD870IS (magazine ad)
I don’t know much about tennis. And I sure don’t know much about Maria Sharapova. But I can say one thing about this ad for the Canon Power Shot digital camera: this ad is lame, lame, lame. In it she’s shown taking pictures of …
Dance Spirit Magazine
The Dance Spirit Magazine is the best magazine that I have found for the common dancer. Unlike Dance Magazine, this magazine is a lot of fun to read and includs many styles of dance. You can find new chorepgraphy, costumes, music, schedules, and much more insde this magazine. They …
Popular mechanics magazine
Popular Mechanics is a monthly magazine that looks at science and technology through the eyes of everyday people and mechanically inclined people. I like this magazine because it looks at new inventions and innovations, but then it shows and tells you exactly how they would impact your everyday life, …
Borghese Nail Lacquer (magazine ad)
If I were looking at this ad without knowing that it was for nail polish, I might think that it’s actually for lip gloss. The model in the picture is very pretty. She sort of has a “Liv Tyler-esque” glow about her. And what struck …
Makulay ang Buhay Marketing Campaign
Have you seen the latest campaign of the Knorr Meaty Seasoning? It was really amazing and I guess this is one of the best TV advertisement ever show in the modern era of TV media advertising. Their main concern was not only to sell the product; their campaign also …
Total Girl Magazine
I was scanning for women’s magazines when I found this Total Girl Magazine. It was a popular teen star that’s on the cover. So I purchased it. When I got home, I was so surprised because I thought this magazine is for older girls, but it’s for tweens! I …
Love Letters Radio Program on DXMS, Cotabato City
Last December 2, following a visit to my mother’s grave in the province for her death anniversary, I got the greatest shock of my life. While I was still in the bus, my cellphone began beeping and ringing like crazy. For a moment, I thought my employer needed me …
Frontline news magazine
Frontline is an Indian newsmagazine published fortnightly from Chennai. I have been reading this magazine for the last three years. In fact, I have become addicted about it because of its impeccable quality and professionalism shown in journalism.
Though this magazine belongs to the spectrum of left, it still attracts …
Glamor Shots
I have a 4 year Daughter who I have always imagined dressed in a fairy outfit and have her picture taken. So I searched high and low and found a fairy outfit to have her picture taken for her 4th birthday. As I was walking in the mall I …
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