Epinions Recent Reviews for demosthenes

Sleeper Hit of the Summer...

Sun, 6 Aug 2000 00:53:01 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author demosthenes - The Replacements stands a good chance of being the sleeper hit of the summer. With none of the marketing brawn behind X-Men or the special effects of The Perfect Storm, The Replacements instead relies on decent acting, a solid script, a good soundtrack,...

Home Run with Baseball, Foul at Love

Mon, 15 May 2000 14:22:03 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author demosthenes - Definitely a great baseball movie. Too bad the love story sucks. Kelly Preston just does not pull off what is already an underwritten character in a marginal love story. The nine innings of a baseball gave dictate the structure of the film. As the game...

Mode - A Magazine Not for Heroin Chic Coathanger Women

Sun, 16 Jan 2000 16:58:02 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author demosthenes - As a longtime reader of the traditional women's mags, Mode was a delightful surprise and change of pace. No one looked like a coat hanger or drug addict and everyone in the magazine from the editor to the fashion models looked happy and healthy. Highly...

Martha on Weddings - The Ultimate Expert Considers Your "Big Day"

Fri, 14 Jan 2000 14:18:49 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author demosthenes - This is always fun to look through even if I cannot come close to accomplishing this airbrushed perfection in my own wedding. This is the ultimate tasteful, beautiful guide to weddings that look deceptively simple. The magazine is much easier to read and...

Understand Wine, Enjoy Reading About It - The Witty Mag on Wine

Fri, 14 Jan 2000 01:33:43 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author demosthenes - Wine X is a great magazine for the wine novice or the winelover. It's much more approachable and easy to understand than the big granddaddy wine mag - Wine Spectator - which always looks poised to be slid onto the coffeetable. Wine X always looks ready...

Yadda Yadda Yadda, Blah Blah Blah - Talk is Actually a Pretty Good Mag

Fri, 14 Jan 2000 00:51:53 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author demosthenes - I don't know what all the carping is about - perhaps people just don't like seeing Tina Brown succeed after her overhauls of Tatler, Vanity Fair, and the New Yorker - but Talk is actually a pretty good mag. After all the buildup last year leading up to...

The Slickest Smokiest Mag Around

Fri, 14 Jan 2000 00:41:05 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author demosthenes - W for the Cigar Set -

Big, fashionable, glamourous - welcome to Cigar Aficionado. Pair it with sister mag Wine Spectator (published by the same people) for the ultimate in reading about the good life…or having some large glossy publications to fully...

Setting the Standard - Gives Red Herring a Run For Its Money

Thu, 13 Jan 2000 02:50:52 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author demosthenes - One of the newer competitors in the thriving business and technology mag market, The Industry Standard consistently has strong articles and finds subjects that not everyone is blanketing with coverage. It seems closest in content and coverage to Red...

Trying to Imitate Martha?? - Remember, She Has a Large Staff to Help Her!!!

Thu, 13 Jan 2000 02:35:39 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author demosthenes - It's so easy to make fun of Martha - after all, she's the ultimate perfectionist - and her drive for perfections has made her a millionaire. Her monthly mag is some king of luxe utopian vision of things we think we ought to be able to do. She makes money...

Plain Jane Doesn't Cut It

Wed, 12 Jan 2000 03:09:54 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author demosthenes - I anticipated the launch of this mag greatly when it started because I loved Sassy and I admire his founder Jane Pratt…but it's mainly been rather disappointing. Jane tried so hard to set itself apart from all the other women's mags that, in the end, it...

the new Gourmet is very tasty!

Tue, 11 Jan 2000 21:51:16 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author demosthenes - Under new editor Ruth Reichl, Gourmet has moved from beyond it's rather staid reputation to become one of the most interesting mags about food around. I have eagerly picked up every issue since hearing that Reichl was the new editor. Granted, I am...

in a world of crappy content on the web, salon.com always comes through!

Tue, 11 Jan 2000 21:36:30 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author demosthenes -

I am an unabashed fan of salon.com. I checked it out soon after it's inception when it still had lots of "buzz" due to the brash comments of the founders concerning what a successful destination they planned to turn it into.

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Enterprise - Cheap Rental, Great Cars, Consistently Good Service

Mon, 10 Jan 2000 23:27:32 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author demosthenes - Driving around in a car that looks like a golf ball was not how I wanted to pick up a friend of mine that I hadn't seen in over a year from the airport a few weeks ago. But it was the lowest priced car Enterprise had - a little two door white Geo Metro...

London - Royals Galore - Visiting Buckingham Palace

Mon, 10 Jan 2000 15:46:26 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author demosthenes - One of the most famous places in London to visit - the royal abode of the Queen of England is a site recognizable to most tourists. It's a beautiful place to shoot pictures, wander through the nearby parks, watch the famous Changing of the Guard, and...

London - Don't Miss Westminster Abbey Whether Your Have a Little or a Lot of Time in London

Mon, 10 Jan 2000 15:33:21 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author demosthenes - Westminster Abbey is one of the most historic churches in Europe - every coronation of British royalty since William the Conqueror in 1066 has been held here. Plus walking around the abbey is stepping through an elegant historical "who's who"...

Rivals "Mademoiselle" for Idiocy

Mon, 10 Jan 2000 14:25:19 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author demosthenes - What a disappointment - I expected this to at least be some kind of coherent competitor to Maxim instead of an insipid silly mess of a men's magazine that rivals women's mag "Mademoiselle" for idiocy. I'd give a man a subscription to Cosmo over...

London - The London Dungeon - A Roaringly Ridiculous Time

Sun, 9 Jan 2000 00:58:49 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author demosthenes - My friend dragged me here when I was living in London. I had little desire to go because from all reports, it sounded cheesy and silly. And you know what, it IS extraordinarily cheesy and silly but it's a good time and a good place to take kids.
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Big Daddy Mag of the Wine Industry - Wine Spectator is Both for the Beginner and the Connoisseur

Sat, 8 Jan 2000 14:34:00 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author demosthenes - Don't know much about wine? Definitely a good place to get started to learn about wine though the ratings may seem overwhelming at first. Though there has been much fussing in the wine industry about these ratings, I've paid little attention to them...

Leading the Men's Mag Pack - Better than Maxim, Details and FHM...Check Out Gear

Thu, 6 Jan 2000 19:46:19 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author demosthenes - Yet another competitor in the softcore smut with articles-for-men category. Except Gear has some bite. The articles are not as stupefyingly silly as Details (see another review by me) nor do writers tackle the same lame topics ranging from how to get...

Going to Napa??? - Plan Your Trip From the Comfort of Your Computer...

Wed, 5 Jan 2000 22:23:18 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author demosthenes - Planning a trip to Napa from the comfort of your desk at work? If you haven't been to Napa before, there are definitely some places you don't want to miss...but how to find the latest???....

Wine Spectator Online has a number of features on...

Great Sites Online to Help You Plan Your Trip to London!

Wed, 29 Dec 1999 20:33:15 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author demosthenes - www.britannia.com

Expansive site on Britain with a section that focuses on London. britannia.com devotes lots of space to the arts - theatre, music, opera, dance and film playing in London and elsewhere in Britain. The section includes profiles and...

Motley Fool: Not Just For Managing Investments But Also For Managing Your Financial Life

Thu, 23 Dec 1999 12:04:42 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author demosthenes - The Motley Fool site has been receiving a lot of press during the last year, much of it praising the Virginia-based financial website for it's insight and analysis as well as the writing and member contributions (over 2 million people visit every...

One of the Best Beers I Have Ever Had...

Thu, 23 Dec 1999 03:15:38 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author demosthenes - I first tasted the Widmer Hefeweizen several years ago at the restaurant adjacent to their brewery. It is honestly one of the best beers I have ever had and I seek it out wherever I go. Unfortunately, the farther you get from the brewery's epicenter in...

Dreaming of Starting Your Own Business? Already Started Your Own Business? Read this!

Thu, 23 Dec 1999 03:07:19 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author demosthenes - If you dream of being or already are an entrepreneur, Business Start-Ups is definitely worth snatching off the newsstand. This is a fairly new permutation of the popular Entrepreneur mags, several manifestations of which always seem to be piled on...

Getting VC Funding From Idealab...? Just How Hard Is It?

Thu, 23 Dec 1999 02:53:26 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author demosthenes - I have friends who have successfully made contact with them but have not been "incubated." Idealab is more an internet incubator than a venture capital firm that was started by Bill Gross in 1996. I haven't applied to this venture capital firm...