What magazines do you read?

[Andy]

Last year my wife signed me up for Rolling Stone, Spin and Popular Science.  They all just ran out and I'm looking to replace them with new ones.  I would consider Spin again, but not Rolling Stone.  I might prefer  Popular Mechanics to Popular Science.


Give me some ideas, crapheads.

[Sarah]

Gee, you ask so nicely, I wish I had some suggestions for you.  But I don't read any, so you're out of luck.

[Omar]

Last year my wife signed me up for Rolling Stone, Spin and Popular Science.  They all just ran out and I'm looking to replace them with new ones.  I would consider Spin again, but not Rolling Stone.  I might prefer  Popular Mechanics to Popular Science.


Give me some ideas, crapheads.

SPIN pretty much stinks, but you can subscribe for like $5/year, so there's that.  Harp or Magnet are better bets as far as music mags go.

I subscribe to The New Yorker, Harper's, Film Comment (for its coverage of all that weird stuff Mike likes), Entertainment Weekly, and Esquire, so I can get hot tips on $175 shaving cream, the best scotch/cigar combos, and the perfect summer evening ensemble (price tag: $1,200, not including shoes).  The new issue of Esquire features pictures of Giada De Laurentiis covered in canned tomatoes, so there's that, too.  I read a lot of other stuff for free at bookstores!

I can recommend some good stroke books via PM, if you're interested.  Some really great stuff coming out of Denmark and, believe it or not, Luxembourg these days...

[bruce]

I agree with Magnet probably one of the better music magazines out there.

I pick up a copy of The Atlantic every once in awhile if there is a interesting article featured.


Oh Omar why pay for those mags just look for a certain torrent site.

[Emily]

i second the NYer.
i also subscribe to the Smithsonian

i purchase/borrow/read online:
martha stewart living
the economist
the new republic

some people like WIRED.
but for the high rollers, there's Trump Magazine!

[Martin]

I only subscribe to one magazine, a Swedish football mag called Offside.

I read stray copies of New Yorker, Wired, Sight & Sound - but I can't afford to sub to any of them.

I'm a big fan of Bust Magazine!

And then there's always Film International. More artsy academic film stuff. I'm one of the editors. Check it out: www.filmint.nu

[Sploops]

Gene Simmons' Tongue and
Autograph Collector Magazine

[DigiDan]

Weird NJ, of course.
I used to read a lot of stuff like Guitar Player and Bass Player magazine, but not anymore.

[erika]

I used to get Real Simple. They would rank things like peanut butter, bacon, lip gloss, etc. They once had an article that showed you 100 things you could do with a plastic baggie.

[Jason]

Weird NJ is such an awfulsome magazine. You only have to read the letters section to realise that they'll print absolutely anything they are so desperate for copy.

[Andy]

wow, there are torrent sites for everything.

[Susannah]

I subscribe to too many publications:the New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, the New York Times (crossword puzzles!), the Wall Street Journal and Harpers.

I also subscribe to Lucky, the "magazine about shopping."  Don't laugh.  Ok, laugh.

[dave from knoxville]

I don't subscribe, but regularly read rock snob magazines like Uncut, Mojo, and, if it comes with a sampler CD that month, Q. I also pick up Fingerstyle Guitar, and a very low circulation mag about progressive rock in all (2) of its forms, called Progression, but it's really hard to find anymore, and I am too lazy to subscribe. Maybe there's a torrent for it, and its 175 regular readers.

[Richard_From_CHI]

Wizard
Newsweek
the occasional video magazine

I get zillions of crappy lawyer magazines, never read them though.

[John Junk]

New Yorker and Harpers, thirded.  Harpers is really great, but can get seriously depressing and pessimistic sometimes.  But it's made me smarter!  Also, we used to get Artforum but I wouldn't get it unless it's important for you to be able to impress people by knowing about all the crappy art that exists on earth currently.