It's a Bieber-fest - New York Post

<div readability="126"> <!-- context: top --> <!-- pass --> <p>They say that cats and teenagers can lie on the sofa for hours without moving. At least with these magazines, the teens have to turn pages once in a while. </p><p><strong>Twist</strong> magazine's August issue delivers an overdose of Justin Bieber for its tweeny readership. Perhaps to the delight of his 15-year-old fans, Twist's coverage of JB, the Biebster, or just plain old Justin, goes well beyond text and into full-size pullout posters. Shooting for the intimate banter to which Twist's audience is accustomed, the Bauer Group publication tends to dispense with the formality of last names when referring to its blossoming starlets and budding beefcakes. So if you're older than, say, 15, you might find yourself wondering who the heck are Cody, Selena, Demi (not Moore), Ashley or Zendaya. </p><!-- context: middle --> <p> With Stephenie Meyer's final Twilight series movie, "Breaking Dawn" wrapping up taping, <strong>Bop</strong> magazine suggests that Suzanne Collins' "Hunger Games" trilogy, which is already headed to a theater next year, may be an apt replacement. Elsewhere, the monthly mag dishes that singer Cameron Quiseng of Disney group Allstar Weekend fame has been "spending a lot of time" with Bieber's gf Selena Gomez. Watch your back, Bieber! Bop also offers dating "do's and don'ts" for those tweenies aiming for a summer romance: Ice cream parlor trips and bike rides get a thumbs-up; texting while on a date . . . not so much. </p><p> Pick up a copy of teenybopper mag <strong>J-14</strong> to explore a series of high-drama teen redemption stories as seen through the eyes of the stars. Turns out Lady Gaga was bullied as a teen and Demi Lovato recently overcame severe body shame. To her credit, Gaga doesn't bully back despite her current might, but simply tells her story as a way to speak out against bullying and discrimination. Gaga says she was tossed in a trash can in her school days by a group of boys and girls, who apparently didn't like her buck teeth and big nose. Not all the stories are so deep. The mag over-dramatizes Taylor Lautner's struggles to balance his two lady loves: His new girlfriend and his best friend and Twilight co-star, Kristen Stewart. </p><p><strong>Tiger Beat</strong> is the place to go for the oddly old-fashioned posters of supposedly hot teen stars to ruin the paint job on your kids' wall. But there's not much substance -- surprise, surprise -- in the articles. When it comes to posters, they have everything from Bieber to his new sweetie, Gomez. These two are like the Brad and Angelina of the teenybopper world. If you're a Bieber fan, Tiger Beat is hoping to woo you with a "24-hour adventure with the Biebs" -- which is really just pics of the young star at different points in an ordinary day. There's also a discussion with Bieber's personal trainer, who walks readers through his new regimen to get buff for Selena. Readers won't likely learn much they don't already know because it's all about the eye candy with this mag. </p><p> If a $14 turkey sandwich is your idea of a value meal, then pick up a copy of <strong>New York</strong>. Its annual "Eat Cheap" issue signals that the recession is over in the Big Apple, the surest being that the price of a Gray's Papaya hot dog has surged 30 percent since 2009, to $1.95. Elsewhere, fishermen air their complaints in a good and depressing feature, in which they explain how they've been throwing back millions of tons of fish before they reach the dock, killing them in the process, in order to comply with regulations. While global over-fishing has clearly reached crisis levels, the other crisis is that we haven't found a way to deal with it. </p><p><strong>Time</strong> likewise puts fish on its cover, with an unusually gripping story on the rise of farming to meet surging demand. The Chinese have the largest and possibly the most environmentally dirty, fish-farming operations in the world. Also worrying is the development of fast-growing, genetically modified "Frankenfish," which in addition to unknown health effects on humans, could escape into the wild and wreak havoc on their non-enhanced counterparts. As for disasters on land, there's a disturbing portrait of the partition in Sudan, with some riveting photos of victims maimed in the civil war, with many observers calling newly formed South Sudan a "pre-failed state." </p><p><strong>Newsweek</strong>, meanwhile, continues its summer nap, putting Sarah Palin on its cover, as if the nation is dying to know whether she'll run for president. "There's still time, there's still months ahead," Palin says in an inexplicably exhaustive and dull interview that seems designed, more than anything, to fill up space. Vacationing editor Tina Brown doesn't bother to phone in a letter to readers this week. Nevertheless, her underlings do provide the obligatory photo of Prince William and Kate Middleton, which apparently seems to be requirement for going to press. "The royal couple played hockey, planted flowers, greeted admirers, and even got a bit of a sunburn on their trip through Canada," the mag reports, for anybody who gives a hoot.</p> </div>