Los Angeles Magazine

Pros: Cheap look at expensive L.A.; interesting features; great restaurant info

Cons: None in my estimation

Review: I guess it's up to me at this auspicious moment in history, to tip the scales on "Los Angeles" magazine, tossing my hat with reckless abandon into the ring of a searing issue that has ripped through the heart and soul of TWO empassioned...

Pros: Quick read and top-notch restaurant tips

Cons: Slow address change

Review: While I wouldn't enter Los Angeles in any literary competitions, the light and airy writing about restaurants, real estate and relevant area activities and new make it a worthwhile read each month. I rarely subscribe to magazines. With Los Angeles, I...

Pros: Entertaining and mildly informative

Cons: Can grate on the nerves with its "hipness"

Review: Once upon a time, Los Angeles had two magazines that purported to be the bastion of coolness. Dubbed 'Buzz' and 'LA Magazine', they touted the best restaurants, the trendiest nightclubs, the places where the stars mingled and spent the astronomical...

Pros: I get it for free

Cons: too superficial, not my style

Review: A few times a year I receive samples of magazines from a company that I am an agent for. I tend to keep most of them, since they each have an appeal to me in one way or another.

The recent mailing was the September 2000 issue of Los...

Pros: 80% of circulation contained to the L.A. Basin.

Cons: I live in the L.A. Basin!

Review: Eons and eons ago, when Madonna was still a virgin, my mother made good on a threat to ditch upstate New York (and my father) for the golden shores of Southern California, attracted by its total lack of snow and the fact that it was as far away from her...

Pros: Unpopular, so not frequently accidentally seen in waiting rooms and so on

Cons: More wanna-be than undiscovered actors, and equally endearing

Review: "Witty and sophisticated, skeptical but not cynical, if ever a publication captivated the spirit of a city, it's Los Angeles." So sayeth the blurb. Either this is as poorly written as the magazine, or LA really is as shallow and...