944

Is that Conan on the cover!!! I love Coco!
Nope. It’s La Roux.
Damn you! Damn you 944!

Does anyone actually subscribe to 944? Sometimes I notice a price on the cover, but the mag’s free on most random tables around town.
Not great. Not terrible. 944 is a nice-​looking magazine and possibly San Diego’s best freebie publication, but I typically find the articles to be underwhelming and the content to be a poor representation of San Diego lifestyle.
Anyway, 944 gets 3 stars from me because I occasionally send/​bring copies home to my mom in Pennsylvania, and she and her friends love it.

Not bad for a free monthly magazine.
Pros:
–It’s free.
–No articles covering bro activities.
Con:
–It’s marketed towards jet-​setting San Diegans (which is a very small minority). They would go to clubs for industry nights, sip cocktails in downtown Del Mar, and have bottle service at a private cabana (at a Gaslamp rooftop lounge). You would never see these kind of people at the Casbah.

Kind of reminds me of the website
Not my cup of tea but its cool for the pictures of girls I guess hahaha. And things i wish I could afford or thing I can afford but definitely wouldnt spend my money on. I would actually respect the magazine a bit more if they actually reserched more on San Diego and the people and companys inside the city. But whatever there doing there thing its doing well from what it seems…

The ads are aimed towards the millionaire sect… but the articles are written at a 5^th grade level?
That doesn’t make much sense to me. Maybe anybody that can write is too intelligent to take a job with them.

Hey elitist… I live my life vicariously through this magazine… yeah sure. i found out what «taste» is all about from people who don’t even eat… this magazine is good for a few things. looking at the club pics of hot girls. yeah they maybe all plastic no posture… but whatever. some are pretty. also its good for a paper wieght. good for fly swatting. good for reading in the bathroom and when you run out of paper you can wipe ur ass with it… ok ok. i lie​.im just jumpiing on the bandwagon of all the 944 bashing here. i really dont hate it… i pick it up. i look through. i take it for what it is… its on its own type of elitist crap. so am i. so what… thats why i Unilocal… i really dont mind it. its free.still.right?.. i think… and plus i probably fall into some of the catergories. but at least i «eat» therefore i can base my taste on something other than a magazine to tell me whats cool…
oh and BTW… 944 is launchin in SF. which i dont think it belongs there. 944 is made for the vegas x miami x l. a scene (and sometimes. i will say it. san diego scene). beside sf has 7×7 which is way cooler…(sarcastically speaking).really, its just a bit better

Yes, people are really hard on 944. In my serious moods I am too, and yes I do use it teasingly as a descriptive term. It’s just misunderstood. You need to treat it like Paris Hilton, show up at their party, enjoy their food, let them supply you with drinks and don’t feel bad about it. That’s all. Don’t ask for advice or get deep. Just hang out.
And really FREE, it’s FREE. I think if I was willing to spill my bank account to make myself appear glossy it would be okay to be incredibly crappy. Invent new types of crappy. Exotic crappy– Crappe’ even.
Don’t compare 944 to a magazine and don’t compare Paris Hilton to a woman.
But if you get in either one I bet you’d brag about it.
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Review Part 2
Okay, maybe it’s just because I’ve always been the guy that butts in when I see someone getting picked on, but I grabbed a new copy to actually «review» it.
It gets 2 extra stars now. It’s gorgeous. There must be a 100 photographers out there that have way, way, way better looking portfolios from this pretty-​glitzy project.
It is really, really pretty. It has some genuine wit to it. Every once in a while it is a bit acidic, but criminy people. I am sure I would be twice as pissy if there was such sour talk coming at me.
Really, «not fit to line a bird cage.» Well, maybe it is too glossy, but I’ll not judge anything by it’s fecal absorption qualities. But if it’s not valuable as something to wipe your arse with, why give it so much shit?
Every once in a while I DO want to see some pretty things, some exotic things, some high-​end things. It doesn’t turn me into a worshipper of those things. And when I go to a nice restaurant it isn’t to pretend I’m rich, just kind of, y’know, thinking the food might be good, the evening pleasant.
Sometimes I pick up architectural magazines, and never once have I felt they were unfairly pandering to those that can build large, beautiful structures. Never complained that they didn’t fairly cover the mobile home field. And don’t you think it would be a little bit loony if I did?
Use this magazine to help narrow down your options for one aspect of your life. Don’t have this (or any magazine) be your guide to your entire life. You’re taking it too seriously. You might as well start screaming, «You kids get the hell of my lawn!»
It almost seems like gay bashing. People seem forbidden from something and hate at it. But you’re not forbidden from it, you’re just having different priorities
Well, maybe some of you Amish or Luddite Unilocalers might be forbidden. You can hate it for religious reasons.
But you better not get caught on this computer!

This is my second review of 944. I deleted my first — — explanation to follow.
I have decided to compose this review because not sharing my experience with this publication would be doing a disservice to kind, honest members of the Unilocal community and to what blogging is all about — — open, uncensored, articulation of opinion — -quite a wonderful way to exercise creativity and the right to express opinions.
So let me cut to the chase, I wrote a review of 944 that was less than friendly. That is because I am NOT a fan of this publication, nor do I think it merits any recognition. It is a mere compilation of glossy advertisements — -most of its ads do not even support the local community, but venerate Vegas, etc etc etc.
I post my rant about the rag mag and within a week, I have a heartless, sarcastic message from an employee of the magazine in my Unilocal inbox suggesting that i «get kicked off Unilocal!», «show my face in their office since I work nearby» blah blah blah.. .. HARASSMENT, no?! Kicked off an internet site for expressing my opinion — -hmmmm.. .. really?! ?!
Needless to say, I wrote my review as an attack on the publication and not as a stab at individuals. Someone took it to another inappropriate level AND THE MAGAZINE STILL SUCKS.

Pure and total trash.
This magazine is hardly suitable to line bird cages with.
Hey fake plastic people, finally there’s a magazine to show you all the useless crap you should spend the millions you pretend to have on. And yay for the nightlife section that shows you other people pretending to be rich too, all with the same goal of hooking up with someone who actually does have the money that you are pretending to flaunt with your credit cards and flashy clothes.
PUKE.

The culture that this magazine promotes absolutely disgusts me. If there is one thing that I cannot tolerate it is fake people who care solely about their own glory. Go drive your posrche and flaunt your meaningless life style at stingeree.
Hooray for real people with real interests.

I agree with Anothony B. This publication is a «wish list» for people who live in reality. this magazine is made for the top 1% of San Diego, and 3% of Vegas. Lucky them, advertisers only have to sell 1 scarf in order to afford their $ 3,000 dollar ad! cake!
The people are fake, boutiques too expensive and cars, outlandish. This is a publication that should be looked at as a «if I had 10,000,000 dollars to blow on bullshit!»
Kind of fun to look at all of the «who’s who» in the back, but they all look like the same people. plastic and spoiled…