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'Blender' Editor Lost His Damn Mind

In an ill-advised publicity stunt and/or world record attempt, Blender editor Russ Heller spent last Friday imprisoned in a Plexiglas cell at the NoHo Best Buy, listening to Starship's "We Built... continue reading »

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June302006

Media Bubble: Time Inc. Lives on the Edge

• Time Inc. to launch SI Edge, fitness mag that won't offer abs tips. Retorts Zinczenko: "[W]e promise not to point out that he's naming his magazine after a shaving cream." continue reading »

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June272006

Press Release of the Week: 'Blender' Hitches Its Wagon to K-Fed's Semen

Because nothing helps sell a brand like associating it with Kevin Federline's cum, Blender's PR geniuses at Four Corners Communications put out this release earlier today: BLENDER Contact: [Flack... continue reading »

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April 52006

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

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... continue reading »

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October132005

Blender Calls Gawker "Accurate" -- and it's not even Opposite Day!

In a profile of Natalie Portman in Blender magazine -- looking a bit undernourished on the cover (below) -- writer Ariel Levy describes accompanying Portman to an M.I.A. concert in Central Park, and... continue reading »

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The wisdom of Felix Dennis

Felix Dennis, publisher of Maxim, Stuff and Blender, is in the news in the UK because he's buying 50,000 acres of Warwickshire, on which he plans to plant the Forest of Dennis. He's a Gawker hero... continue reading »

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