Editor's Note
When a man strokes my face, I want him to whisper. "Baby, your skin is so smooth," not "Eww . . . well, I have a great exfoliator you
can borrow." Maybe it's selfish, but I want to be the soft one, the pretty one, the one who takes forever to get ready. I don't want to walk in on my boyfriend while he's wearing a face-mask and reading one of my old Cosmos.
But our men-folk are changing. They buy specialty shampoo, lotion and after-shave. They wear Diesel jeans and Lacoste polos. They get manicures and haircuts with body and shape. The days of the local barbershop are coming to an end, and they are being replaced by Saturday afternoons at designer stores and expensive salons. Maha Masud explores this phenomenon, nicknamed metrosexuality, in-depth on page 10.
Some women embrace this new feminization of their men. They like that they take care of themselves. They like a sharply dressed, cologne-laced man. But to me, the best smell on a man does not come in a bottle of Aqua Di Gio or Very Sexy but from working on a car for a few hours. It's that motor grease/sweat scent of hard work. Dirt covers his clothes and hands, but he comes in the house with that sweet smell, proud that he just fixed your radiator belt. He should have a couple of calluses, stubble and a farmer's tan — not that all-over glow from the bronzer bottle.
Liz Beggs, associate editor
lbeggs@kansan.com
Inside
3 Weekly choice
4 Bite Make your own sushi, but without the raw fish
6 Contact Budgeting time between your BF and your BFF
8 Manual Trimming your bush and other plant how-tos
10 Notice Ever wonder what your professors do in their spare time?
11 Bitch + Moan Too-long nails & foot jobs
12 Feature Metros: the newest sexuality
17 Venue Rags and riches: Bar dress codes
18 Movies, Music, Games Fever Pitch, Queens of the Stone Age, Doom 3
23 Speak Wearing out life and herself
EDITOR AKA QUEEN BZE
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ASSOCIATE EDITOR HATES TAGUNES
Liz Beggs
CLERK GETS AROUND TOWN Meredith Desmond
DESIGNERS MAKE PRETTY PAGES
Emily Homer
Joshua Kendall
BITE ALWAYS HUNTS THE MUSCHINES
Britta Fliorman
Maha Masud
Anija Winkila
CONTACT WILL HELP YOU WRITE YOUR PROBLEMS
Ashley Doyle
Samara Nazir
Erin Shipps
MANUAL IS ACTIVALLY USEFUL
Donovan Asson
Leigh Ann Foseky
Lynn Hamilton
NOTICE TAXES NOT BE IT
Robert Perkins
Paige Worthy
Chris Brown
Mandy Hendrix
Ashley Michaels
COPY EDITOR DOS MARGARITAS Laura Francoviglia
CREATIVE CONSULTANT KNOWS A LOT
Carol Holstead
Cover photo illustration:
Kit Leffler
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