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As a tragic sidebar to any man who's ever been best friends with a girl, waited to get their hair cut at a salon, worked at a women's clothing store or looked for reading material in your girlfriend's bedside table, bathroom or living room...
This fall marks the end of Jane Magazine
Jane magazine was a great publication. It got the whole "sexy fun 20 something" thing that Cosmo tried and failed at. It managed to be a sophisticated, interesting publication while still maintaining an attitude of youthful joy about it.
I think people take for granted the fact that most of the interesting celebrity revelations in the past half decade have happened in Jane. Their interview style was relaxed and ambling and allowed for the true personalities of their subjects to be exposed for better or for worse.
It had all the "be a monster in the sack" and "OMG embarrassment" sections of a Seventeen or Cosmo but played them as ridiculous candy to be consumed along with real journalism instead of making them the backbone of the magazine.
And if you don't want to take my word for it:
One time one of my more significant Highschool mentors, my English teacher Mr.Howe, complained that in our I.B. English class we were reading Jane instead of whatever Margaret Atwood or Seamus Heany we'd been assigned but, in retaliation we forced him to read the issue and in the end he decided it was probably better than what we were supposed to be reading and declared it the only magazine worthy of the class. And this is basically my "Dead Poet's Society" so yeah, fucking significant.
Anyway, next time your lady-friend gets up to freshen up and you have to thumb through the 1000 ads of Vogue or zip through the paper-thin content of Cosmo, fondly remember Jane and how there used to be a magazine that you could secretly love at your girlfriend's house.
Cam
As a tragic sidebar to any man who's ever been best friends with a girl, waited to get their hair cut at a salon, worked at a women's clothing store or looked for reading material in your girlfriend's bedside table, bathroom or living room...
This fall marks the end of Jane Magazine
Jane magazine was a great publication. It got the whole "sexy fun 20 something" thing that Cosmo tried and failed at. It managed to be a sophisticated, interesting publication while still maintaining an attitude of youthful joy about it.I think people take for granted the fact that most of the interesting celebrity revelations in the past half decade have happened in Jane. Their interview style was relaxed and ambling and allowed for the true personalities of their subjects to be exposed for better or for worse.
It had all the "be a monster in the sack" and "OMG embarrassment" sections of a Seventeen or Cosmo but played them as ridiculous candy to be consumed along with real journalism instead of making them the backbone of the magazine.
And if you don't want to take my word for it:
One time one of my more significant Highschool mentors, my English teacher Mr.Howe, complained that in our I.B. English class we were reading Jane instead of whatever Margaret Atwood or Seamus Heany we'd been assigned but, in retaliation we forced him to read the issue and in the end he decided it was probably better than what we were supposed to be reading and declared it the only magazine worthy of the class. And this is basically my "Dead Poet's Society" so yeah, fucking significant.
Anyway, next time your lady-friend gets up to freshen up and you have to thumb through the 1000 ads of Vogue or zip through the paper-thin content of Cosmo, fondly remember Jane and how there used to be a magazine that you could secretly love at your girlfriend's house.
Cam
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