Men’s interest?
Women’s interest?
Entertainment?
Current events?
There are a couple of copies lying in our breakroom here at work and I cannot figure out who their target audience is. Am I supposed to feel embarassed looking at it in a doctors office when there’s a perfectly good Sports Illustrated next to it?
Celebrity-worship/fashionista, with a crucial dollop of investigative journalism.
It’s a very glamorous hybrid.
I think of it as an upscale version of People – fewer (but better) photos and longer articles, but the same kind of fascination with celebs, fashion, scandal, etc.; plus, as The Scrivener points out, some occasional content.
I’ll subscribe for a year or two, then let the subscription lapse for three or four years.
If anyone catches you thumbing through it, you can claim, with a straight face, to read it for the articles.