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Texas Megachurch Lures the Devout the Greedy With $2 Million in TVs, Cars

Ravi Somaiya — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 18:32:32 EDT

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A Texas megachurch has decided to lure potential God-botherers through its doors tomorrow by giving away a donated furniture set, 15 TVs, 16 cars and other very holy items that are not at all incongruous. More »

The Week We Forgot To Mention Our Girlfriend

Pareene — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:45:00 EST

What a week! They feel so different, these 2010s! So fresh, and new! Also, as usual, there was death and terror and crime and greed. More »

The Week Secret Societies Were Exposed as Goofy

Pareene — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:00:00 EST

Are you working, still? Seriously? Get to the bar, ASAP! But before you go, click on some of this stuff, maybe? More »

The Week Deviants Ran Rampant

Pareene — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 18:30:00 EDT

Happy Labor Day. Let's all get drunk and then seize the means of production on Monday. Sound good? Man, we had so many questions this week. More »

The Future Was Grander in 1993

Hamilton Nolan — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:42:10 EDT

The practice of predicting the future in ads has always been dicey. But in 1993, AT&T got damn near everything right! Present-day dreamers Microsoft would kill for this record of adverfuturism accuracy: More »

Among the casualties of the Stuff shuttering:...

abalk — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 16:40:16 EDT

Among the casualties of the Stuff shuttering: publisher John Lumpkin. [AdAge] More »

A Good Houseguest Brings "Stuff" For The Weekend

Rod Townsend — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 18:10:00 EDT

Rod Townsend records the gays in and around their natural environment of Fire Island and reports back. Wanna hear something shocking? Summer's almost over already. OMG, and so are those hideous pants you're wearing! More »

Hey, it's nearly 1 p.m.: If you work at...

Choire — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 12:40:32 EDT

Hey, it's nearly 1 p.m.: If you work at Stuff magazine, that means you're supposed to be at your desk, according to the HR department. Mass firings are so much easier than one on ones. Sorry, guys. From the mailbag: "Saw that email from a Maxim source, and wanted to comment. One third of the company has not been let go. The Stuff staff wouldn't even make up a fifth of the company, probably... and they haven't been let go. But the passport fears are true. Turns out they fired all the work visa employees first. In fact, the first firing on the edit side happened yesterday afternoon. A couple of designers at Maxim—and Ian Robinson, Stuff's art director and the longest-tenured employee at Stuff, was let go without severance. His visa was for a foreign company on US soil, which was obviously complicated by the Dennis sale (to American ownership). Damian Wilkinson married his girlfriend when news of the sale hit. Now it's even worse. Sitting around waiting to get fired is obviously not fun." More »

From the mailbag: "A little bird told me...

Choire — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 17:04:20 EDT

From the mailbag: "A little bird told me today that the Maxim people are freaking. 1/3 of the company's staff has been cut (the Stuff side) and most of the editors who have UK passports have already been informed that their visas will not be renewed." More »

Kent Brownridge, Alpha Male, Has Lad Mags

abalk — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 14:04:54 EDT

Kent Brownridge's acquisition of the Felix Dennis lad titles is finally complete. As mentioned before, Stuff will be folded into Maxim. No word yet on layoffs or whether they're shopping Maxim editor Jimmy Jellinek's job, but the press release, which you can find below, does indicate that stuffmagazine.com "will continue to be a digital destination," presumably because there are enough people who are still willing to jerk off to it. More »

"The future owners of Dennis Publishing's...

abalk — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 12:43:12 EDT

"The future owners of Dennis Publishing's men's titles plan to fold Stuff as a standalone magazine in the fall and make it a section in flagship Maxim, sources told Mediaweek. The move is effective with the November/December issue of Maxim. No word on the fate of Stuff's staffers. John Lumpkin, publisher of Stuff, said a change in Stuff's publishing schedule is news to him. 'There's been no discussion of suspending publication,' he said." [Mediaweek] More »

Felix Dennis offloads Maxim, Stuff and Blender...

abalk — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 10:20:51 EDT

Felix Dennis offloads Maxim, Stuff and Blender on Steven Rattner's Quadrangle group to the tune of about $250 million. [NYP] More »

Lindsay Lohan Live On 'Radar'

abalk2 — Wed, 02 May 2007 10:40:23 EDT

Post calls out News' circulation figures: The "paper's overreliance on bulk sales is propping up a single-copy sales disaster." Expect some lame News response involving the phrase "New York area" tomorrow. [NYP] More »

Media Bowling League: Stuff It, 'Stuff'

Emily Gould — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 10:36:50 EDT

Media Bowling reaches its triumphant climax this week, with big victories over Stuff, V Magazine, and a random defeat by something called "Freelance." They seemed sad. This video contains at least two disturbing things: a makeout sesh and a declaration of paternity. Don't worry, kids, that man isn't actually your daddy. Probably. More »

Media Bubble: Conrad Black Trial Begins

abalk2 — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 09:52:32 EDT

Conrad Black's fraud trial starts today. [Chicago Tribune] More »

Do Magazines Invent Letters? Hell Yes!

abalk2 — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 14:44:47 EST

Well, you've heard today from those who swear that each and every letter you read in a magazine has come directly from a reader (albeit one more than likely serving time on the orders of the state). Now, let's take a look at the other, more believable side. After the jump, voluminous evidence that certain publications—some of which you even read—play fast and loose with their letter section. More »

Dennis Publishing Comes Clean: We Do Own Crap!

abalk2 — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 17:21:41 EST

After nearly a year of refusing to comment on "rumors" that it had anything to do with abominations such as Maxim, Stuff and Blender, Dennis Publishing has confirmed the worst-kept secret in publishing: The company does indeed publish those titles, and, as such, is partially responsible for the complete collapse of literacy and standards over the last fifteen years. It is not clear why the company decided to issue its statement and apology at this time—although they are looking to unload all this shit as soon as possible. More »

'Stuff' Lagerfeld Joke Offends Chunkies, Cat People

Emily Gould — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 11:42:55 EST

Newish Stuff editor Dan Bova's first editor's letter is a sendup of Chanel designer/vampire-grampy Karl Lagerfeld. According to WWD, Bova "wrote the editor's letter of his first full issue in the supposed voice of Karl Lagerfeld, focusing mostly on what Bova fabricates is the designer's taste for eating cats." We suppose this is what Dan is getting at when he says that Stuff is making a "concerted effort to go upscale," but we're unconvinced. We're talking about the author of the Karl Lagerfeld Diet here, the man who once said that his "only ambition in life" is to fit into size 28 jeans. You think he'd really be caught dead ingesting a calorie-crammed, full-fat feline? More »

Dan Bova Rises Awesomely to EIC at 'Stuff'

Chris Mohney — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 18:30:24 EDT

Hold your horses! Hold them. In a move sure to shock no one who cares, Stuff executive editor Dan Bova has been promoted to editor-in-chief, filling the stinky void left by Jimmy Jellinek's departure to Maxim. "I apologize in advance to any readers whose heads explode from awesome overload," says Bova, predicting that future issues of Stuff will feature photos of scantily clad women. Full awesome overload after the head-exploding jump. More »

Lady Golfers and Lad Mag Readers Share Similar Interests

abalk2 — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 14:00:26 EDT

September's Yunjin Kin cover must have sold pretty well, because Golf for Women has taken another cue from Stuff and put Ivanka Trump on the front of their November/December issue. But we're sure it's all about the golf. More »

Yunjin Kim Works On So Many Levels

abalk2 — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 12:40:54 EDT

We don't watch Lost, so we've never heard of Yunjin Kim, but her appearance this month on the covers of two very different magazines offers an interesting sociological question: What do these pictures say about the desires of the lads who "read" Stuff vs. the ladies who love golf? More »

Media Softball: Battle of Jellinek; Felix Dennis to Wear Cheerleader Skirt

Jessica — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 10:12:51 EDT

There's a major showdown brewing for tonight: Dennis Publishing brothers Maxim and Stuff will take to the softball field for a fierce battle of Axe Body Wash-scented supremacy. The game takes on a new relevance, however, with the recent defection of former Stuff EIC Jimmy Jellinek to the top of Maxim's masthead, taking with him three former Stuff staffers. Thus the game ensures to be nothing more than a violent grudge match. The question, however, is not whether or not Stuff can win back its pride or if Maxim will smack them into submission — it's whether or not Jellinek will play. As we understand it, his editorial skills may be an asset, but Jellinek's athletic prowess helps no team. More »

Breaking: Jimmy Jellinek New 'Maxim' EIC

Jessica — Fri, 12 May 2006 14:15:13 EDT

According to WWD, Dennis Publishing will name their in-house golden boy, Stuff mag's Jimmy Jellinek, as Maxim's next EIC, where his throne shall rest high atop a tower of Bud Lights. The choice would make sense: Jellinek's been at Stuff since May of 2005 and put in dues prior to that at Complex, FHM, and Details. That is to say, he knows his charticles from his farticles. More »

U.S. Mag Biz Sucks So Much Felix Dennis Wants Out, Too

Jesse — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 12:18:59 EDT

So just to recap the last 24 hours in magland: AMI shuttered three titles and moved one back to Florida while replacing its EIC, Hachette closed ELLEgirl as a print pub, and we got word that Time Inc. is prepping for yet another round of layoffs. Could there be yet another nail in the coffin of the magazine business this week? Of course there could. Keith Kelly reports today that even one of the few mag execs who seems to be having fun — one with new(ish) products and happy balance sheets — is trying to get out of the game: More »

The Life of a Freelance Writer

Jessica — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 08:50:22 EST

Writer Bill Schulz visited the set of gore flick Hostel for a Stuff magazine assignment; short on extras, the movie crew started grabbing anyone available for some blood-soaked scenes. Lucky for Bill, he had the chops to nab a plum role as the recipient of a testical-removal. More »

The Infinite Wisdom of Jimmy Jellinek

Jessica — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 09:45:50 EST

It's a shame Stuff EIC Jimmy Jellinek is married, because his interview today with the Black Table has us ready and willing to give him a whole brood of media-whore babies: More »

Kimberly Stewart Perfects Her Paris Hilton Imitation

Jessica — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 13:16:10 EDT

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Media Bubble: Who the Fuck Are You Calling Prickly?

Jesse — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 13:27:11 EDT

• Writers' group takes away Conscience in Media award from Judy Miller. "Independent writers are a prickly bunch," says group's prez. [E&P] More »

Al Gore "Kicks It" With "The Kids"

Leitch — Tue, 07 Jun 2005 11:15:03 EDT

Most people don't notice them much anymore, but the ninth annual Webby Awards took place at Gotham Hall. That Craigslist dweeb Craig Newmark won Web Person of the Year, which is pretty much the same thing as being the head of the A/V Club, except you get fewer girls. Continuing their tradition of honoring scrappy underground sites, The Webby Awards give hardware to up-and-comers like Google, McSweeney's, eTrade, the CIA (!) and, uh, Sony. More »

'Stuff' Mag: New Editor, Same T&A

Jesse — Thu, 05 May 2005 13:55:00 EDT

Mike Hammer, who took over the top slot at Stuff magazine after the too-laddie Greg Gutfield was promoted out of the job, is finally packing up his, um, stuff and moving on. Replacing him is Complex EIC Jimmy Jellinek. Before Complex, Jellinek was a founding editor of the U.S. FHM. Which means that guys from FHM's launch team now helm four men's mags: Jellinek at Stuff, Ed Needham at Maxim, Tony Romando at Sync, and Scott Gramling at FHM. It's like The Washington Monthly over there, but with boobies instead of welfare reform. More »

Gutfeld: The Good Times Are Killing Me (Or, This Guy At Least)

Haber — Fri, 18 Feb 2005 10:35:48 EST

Good old Greg Gutfeld seems to be having a blast over there in Blighty editing the UK edition of Maxim. He's also spreading the fun around to terminally ill lads. More »

'Times' and 'Maxim UK': Dirty, Dirty Lads

Haber — Tue, 04 Jan 2005 09:21:38 EST

Is it hot in here? Or is it just us? More »

Update: More Questionable Tsunami Coverage

Andrew — Tue, 28 Dec 2004 12:18:14 EST

Many of you have written to show us other instances of absurdity in the media's coverage of the Asian tsunami tragedy. Of course, nothing is really newsworthy unless there are sensational pictures or rich white people involved. But who are we to lecture about journalistic integrity? Such are the inevitables when disaster-porn and the 24 hour news cycle collides. We know it must be tough to write stories when all the AP wire offers are photos of poor little brown people. Here are a couple of your examples after the jump. More »

Dennis Publishing: A Poem is Worth a Thousand Bucks

Haber — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 17:29:20 EST

It's Christmas bonus time in the land of lads, and the big man with the beard has a little something for all the good boys—and tolerant girls—who work in his glossy toy shop. More »

Dennis Gets Sprung: More Than Cheesecake and Hair Dye

Haber — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 15:31:13 EST

We just got a wonderful press release that announces Dennis Publishing, the company behind Maxim and Stuff (the magazines for men who love women—but hate them, too), Blender (for music lovers who can accept Jessica Simpson being called a "musician"), and The Week (for people who want the world—in 250-words or less) will be launching a series of products with branding/licensing firm TippingSprung in 2005: More »

'Maxim UK''s Gutfeld Gets Hitched, Soft

Haber — Tue, 07 Dec 2004 11:09:06 EST

Our sincere congratulations to Maxim UK editor (and former Stuffster) Greg Gutfeld, who took the plunge, walked down the aisle, jumped the broom, and got married Friday, according to Page Six. More »

Stuff Magazine's Mike Hammer Drops The Science

Jessica — Fri, 03 Dec 2004 11:05:07 EST

We have to hand it to Stuff magazine editor Mike Hammer, just for having some hefty (if not slightly misogynistic) balls. While speaking at Syracuse University, Hammer doled out the secrets to successful covers, including such nuggets as, "Make sure [your cover girl] — or their caboose — is huge." Also, singer Sheryl Crow is not "super hot," so photogs have to work extra hard to make her look good. Hammer then revealed that Carmen Electra and Pamela Anderson are great fallback covers, if all else fails (their publicists are going to love that). Most importantly, Stuff does NOT use Photoshop to increase chest size, but they do shave some inches off the hips. Because "child-bearing" simply isn't fuckable. More »

Wal-mart bans laddie mags

Gawker — Tue, 06 May 2003 13:05:42 EDT

If our reader survey demographics are any indication, none of you have seen the inside of a Wal-mart in, well, ever, so maybe this is irrelevant, but I thought I'd post it anyway. Wal-mart has decided to remove Maxim, Stuff and FHM from its magazine rack. Dennis Publishing, which owns Maxim and Stuff, reports that Wal-mart accounts for less than 3% of its sales, so it's probably fair to assume that this doesn't mean the demise of babes-n-beer jokes or the ubiquitous "charticles" (chart = article) for those who can't read more than 100 words at a time. The magazines are being removed under pressure from Christian groups who find the covers too "racy." (Wal-mart has also banned specific issues of magazines, refusing to sell one issue of In Style that included an "artfully arranged" photo of Kate Hudson nude.) I'm not one to criticize Wal-Mart for being a massive soul-destroying retail chain, as I think there's something to be said for price efficiencies, but you have to love a store whose policy is "we won't sell laddie mags because god knows what sort of trouble those would start (think of the children!) but we have a special on Remington 500s—free ammo with every purchase!" (Oh, and here's a free John Deere mesh cap as well. You can mail it to your cousin in Williamsburg, where it will be worn with fashionable irony.) Maybe they just need a waiting period for buying lad mags. Force the lads to register! Laddie mags don't kill people; people kill people! More »

Maximum Hard and Stuffed Hard

Gawker — Mon, 05 May 2003 15:17:38 EDT

Adult entertainment company Python Pictures was ordered to recall DVDs of Maximum Hard and Stuffed Hard, the covers of which parodied Maxim and Stuff magazines respectively. (I thought Maxim and Stuff were beyond parody, but I guess not.) More »

Eulogy for Greg Gutfeld

Gawker — Sat, 03 May 2003 14:42:38 EDT

The NYT takes a look at Greg Gutfeld's tenure as editor of Stuff, and his abrupt departure earlier this week. Gutfeld contends that his bosses just didn't get his sense of humor. Gutfeld, who got kicked out of grade school for lighting firecrackers in class, continued with the pranks through most of his editorial career. Stuff featured public mockings of other magazines such as having then GQ editor Art Cooper's handwriting analyzed, responded to letters sent to Entertainment Weekly (an oldie but a goodie—SPY used to answer letters to the New Yorker), and running a "correction" that said, "In last month's issue of Esquire, we thought we read something pretty interesting; turns out, we were just staring at a wall." Gutfeld's off-the-page stunts were even better. He sent a group of dwarf actors to disrupt a magazine panel and wore a bearskin rug to a fashion show. I know Gutfeld's a pain in the ass, but I think Stuff is going to be incredibly boring now. Then again, if he's looking for things to do, we could always use another unpaid intern. More »