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Which of Your Favorite Cultural Icons Made the TIME 100?

By Judy Berman on

Time has just published its annual list of the “100 Most Influential People in the World.” Most of the names you expect are there — Barack Obama, Kim Jong-un, the lady who invented Spanx — but here at Flavorpill, we’re especially interested in the magazine’s picks within the cultural realm. Along with the obvious choices (Adele, Harvey Weinstein, Stephen Colbert), some intriguing trends emerge. All five of the actors on the list are women, for example, and the only two filmmakers come from Muslim countries. See who made the cut after the jump, and be sure to click through and read the blurbs by celebrities who are just as noteworthy as their subjects. … Read More

Design

Famous Magazines’ First Covers

By Judy Berman on

In celebration of their 154th anniversary, our friends at The Atlantic shared a photo of their first cover, from November 1857. The difference between that image and the very different design the magazine is rocking these days sparked our curiosity about what some of today’s best-loved and most widely read publications looked like in their infancy. After the jump, we’ve rounded up debut covers of everything from The New Yorker to Vogue to Spin. We have to admit, some of them really surprised us: Who knew People started off so classy? Or that Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz’s baby was TV Guide‘s first cover model? Journey with us through media and design history after the jump. … Read More

Celebrity

2011′s Most Influential Pop Culture Icons

By Judy Berman on

TIME magazine has released its annual “TIME 100″ list of the most influential people in the world. The class of 2011 is a typically eclectic group, ranging from world leaders to activists to terrorists to businesspeople. Nearly a third of the list is comprised of folks from the culture sphere — from moguls and showrunners to actors and musicians. We round up those entries after the jump, with direct links so you can read the blurbs, many of which were composed by other artists and celebrities. … Read More

News

The Morning’s Top 5 Pop Culture Stories

By Caroline Stanley on

1. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has been named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year, making him the second youngest recipient of the award ever, after Charles Lindbergh in 1927. In case you’re curious, the Tea Party was the runner-up among Time editors (and the top choice among readers), followed by Julian Assange, Hamid Karzai, and… Read More

Web

10 Sites to Bookmark From Time’s Top 50

By Sam Schlinkert on

Time magazine released its top 50 websites of 2010 yesterday, with categories ranging from productivity to food to games. They first started picking the best of the web back in 2002, when they highlighted the Onion, Epinions, and now defunct gaming site flipside.com, among others. In 2005 Flavorpill was honored as one of the “coolest” sites on the web in the Lifestyle, Health and Hobbies section. So allow us to pick out our favorite 10 of this year’s list, with a focus on what we know best. Get ready to add a few new sites to your bookmarks that will help you travel, monitor your finances, eat better and, of course, waste your free time playing games. … Read More

Books

15 Writers Who’ve Graced the Cover of Time

By Daniel McGillivray on

The cover of this week’s Time Magazine features writer Jonathan Franzen, whose new novel, Freedom, publishes at the end of August. As the New York Times points out, he’ll be the first living writer on the cover in ten years. To get there, an author must brew the perfect combination of sales, publicity, and cultural impact. (Only a small fraction of the authors on Time’s 100 Novels list ever made the cut for a spot on the cover.) After the jump, we’ll take you through the last 15 Time covers featuring a living writer, and explain what landed them there. … Read More

News

The Morning’s Top 5 Pop Culture Stories

By Caroline Stanley on

1. Time Magazine has selected Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke as its Person of the Year. [via Reuters]
2. There’s a new trailer up for Tim Burton‘s Alice in Wonderland, and it looks like Helena Bonham Carter is going to steal the show. [via Pop Candy]
3. Kill… Read More

Art

Hypercolor Mags, An Old School Heist, & The Apocalyptic Monument We’d Never Heard Of [Art Links]

By Caroline Stanley on

The New York Times‘ Holland Cotter gives The Pictures Generation, 1974-1984 show at the Metropolitan Museum an enthusiastic thumb’s up and suggests that it could serve as a blueprint for a new era of contemporary exhibitions at the stuffy old venue. A slideshow of some of the featured work, including the positively lovely Cindy Sherman film still above, here. … Read More

Web

The Week in Weird ’n Wild Web News

By Caroline Stanley on

The New York Times issues a set of standards for their in-house blogs. Included in the memo that was leaked to Gawker: “What should be avoided in all of them is any hint of racist, sexist or religious bias, or any suggestion of nasty, snide, sarcastic, or condescending tone – ‘snark.’ If something could easily fit in a satirical Web site for young adults, it probably shouldn’t go into the news pages of nytimes.com.” … Read More

Design

Newsstand Stalker – The Covers of People, Time, The New Yorker and New York

By Caroline Stanley on

People: Not surprisingly the most talked about celebrity this week, a stunned JENNIFER HUDSON is front and center, flanked by ANGELINA JOLIE, TARA REID and a random teen with leprosy sharing real estate in the bright turquoise sidebar. We weren’t sure how the weeklies were going to handle this tragedy, and while “AGONY” is the largest word on the cover, all in all it’s pretty tasteful.
Our rating: 2.5 stars for using the same tired color palette, but bonus points for pulling an image of Hudson that is situation appropriate — unlike the more sultry photos used by the competition. … Read More