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Nominees for Cultural Coverage
By editors, Utne Reader
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1999 winners
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Adbusters
http://www.adbusters.org
Image is everything, or so the advertising world would have you believe.
Adbusters
is out to change that: according to
Workbook,
"It's well-written and clever, its design and layout are superb, it has a strong activist orientation-and it's not afraid to take on some of the most powerful companies in the world."
CDN or US $20/yr. Intl. $35/yr (4 issues)
U.S. orders to: Adbusters
Unit 658, Box 8110
Blaine, WA 98231-9834
Or, order online.
Or, by phone at 800-663-1243
Bitch
www.bitchmagazine.com
Pop culture today contains a lot of conflicting views about feminism, and disagreement about what feminism really is.
Bitch
cuts through the debate with incisive commentary on the place and perception of women in society. With articles on topics as diverse as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, body painting, and magazine critiques,
Bitch
unapologetically pushes the envelope of feminist complacency.
US $15/yr. CAN $21/yr. (4 issues)
Orders to:
Bitch
PMB 143
3128 16th Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
Shift
www.shift.com
The high-tech future is supposed to be empowering, but light-speed advances in technology can give you virtual whiplash. Fortunately, the brash Canadian magazine
Shift
is around to navigate and filter through the clutter. Hip enough for the hacker but practical enough for the AOL newbie,
Shift
reclaims the humanity in digital culture.
US $17.97/yr. plus tax (6 issues)
U.S. orders to: Shift P.O. Box 29
Lewiston, NY 14092
Or, by phone at 800-676-0466
Geist
www.geist.com
If you didn't have a sense of a distinct Canadian culture before reading
Geist,
you will after you've turned the last page. Hard to pin down and even harder to define,
Geist
isn't overtly nationalistic, but its sincere, simple essay invariable capture the essence of our northern neighbor.
CDN $15/yr. or US$21/yr. (4 issues)
Orders to: Geist
1014 Homer St., Suite 103
Vancouver, BC V6B 2W9 Canada
Or, by phone at 888-GEIST-EH
Gadfly
www.gadfly.org
Gadfly
is the fly in the ointment of cultural complacency. From small-time professional wrestling to existentialist writer Paul Bowles to Charles Mingus to Winnie the Pooh. The magazine's variously humorous, sad, and engrossing coverage of the heights and depths of our society forms as complete a picture as you'll find in one place.
US $19.95/yr. (6 issues)
Orders to:
Gadfly
Magazine
P.O. Box 7926
Charlottesville, VA 22906-7926
Or, order online.
Or, by phone at 888-442-3359.