WHAT MAGAZINE BESIDES HARPER'S SHOULD I SUBSCRIBE TO?

soldier of fortune

nat'l geographic obviously

also OMG should i get my nephew a subscription to high times when he turns 6 this year, and then pretend i got confused with highlights?

yes
ok no

i was thinking about mag subscriptions too b/c right now i get harpers only (okay and this magazine my grandpa signed me up for from readers digest called 'our canada' - i will start a thread abt it one day when drunk/tired i bet). signed up b/c of on-line archive but reading these days ugh. did get most of the way through the article about egyptian tombs though! gotta finish that. my brain seems to need some kind of deep break from most reading or something.

but yeah so when i was flying home for christmas i was in the magazine etc shop at the airport an none of the magazines appealed at all except for national geographic, but i didn't buy it for some reason. i even flipped through a bunch of investment/money magazines! they sort of appealed though in a more novel way. i mean hey why not.

i'm thinking though that if you're going to get mag subscriptions get ones to things you'll read but also maybe smaller magazines you'd like to support.

by which i mean specialty porn

or poetry journals

http://www.planetavp.com/conrad/Aliens14.jpg

yeah i only exclude harpers because i already get that. national geog is a rad idea...

seriously suggest your friends' mags if u think they rule - i dont need it to be big or important

the last magazine i read cover to cover was air canada's en route mag which assumes an audience of like well-off, traveling ADD types i guess. i was pretty into it.

i read this italian magazine my brother says is his new favourite magazine - it's called SOMA and it is kind of ridiculous but also really appealing in a way that most 'style' ugh magazines aren't. maybe it's b/c 1/4 of it is in italian and much of the rest is endearingly translated into english.

egotastic artists and music video directors are way more likeable when rendered via some improper syntax and cute grammatical mistakes

air canada staff treated me like dogshit in august; i will NEVER read their magazine.

i went with natl geog but this should be the noize magazine thread? who cares

air canada staff are the worst - even the flight attendants are rude!
yet this particular issue of the mag had 2+ articles that were obv part of much longer thought-out and researched pieces - it kind of surprised me
but yeah fuck them

cooks illustrated
smithsonian
new yorker
harpers
games
wired
dwell

Wired is bad.

New Yorker is ok, but i would never pay money.

The only thing I get is TONY (from former tenant) which I prompty toss

ReadyMade
MAKE
Modern Painters
Esquire
Smithsonian
Atomic Ranch

Dwell is so disappointing these days. The first couple of years were different from all the other architectural/design mags out there but they've become yuppie lifestyle porn like the rest. Like, tell me about hip young relatively affordable urban living - not overpriced over-designed modernist bullshit.

harper's
make
nat'l geo
economist
hustler (for articles)
high country news
the alpinist

i go back and forth about wired. sub to harper's & atlantic

dwell is kinda bad lately.

and i agree the wired redesign isn't that great, but the long-form articles are still, for my money, some of the most breezy and interesting pieces anywhere.

i get harpers, esquire, new yorker, and SOD.

http://www.blackmetal.com/scans0107/sod24_mag.jpg

this is still me, basically:

People Who Only Read Literary Fiction, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Harpers, Vanity Fair, Instyle, Us, And Metal Magazines

new yorker, vanity fair and my wife gets harpers bizarre (I like the pictures). my opinion of wired fluctuates: I took it for several years, dropped it for awhile and just subscribed again for $10/year.

Mother Jones

oh yeah, vanity fair! but i don't know, while i do like certain content - mostly the 'world issues' stuff - i can't deal with the style or attitude or something (ivy-league-ness? pretty much...)

in-style isn't what it used to be 5 yrs ago, or maybe i've changed

maybe i will start reading metal magazines

(scott - do you have a metal hour show on maria's radio station yet?? you should! i was listening to mtl community radio stn's metal show last night and while they play some kind of hilarious/dubious stuff it is mostly pretty great. and called 'sounds of steel' haha)

http://www.streetgangs.com/bookclub/pics/feds_vol2_7front.jpg

http://vega.soi.city.ac.uk/~gu119/JPersianLondoners/bidoun.jpg

this is really good!

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/publications/DOC_readers/kissinger/nyrb.jpg

tell me more about

cooks
make
atomic ranch
______ bidoun

make = diy technology

My parents get the Atlantic, I always kind of liked that one.

Atomic Ranch is midcentury design - a little too much emphasis on rehabilitating the 'burbs, but lots of cool furniture, etc..

im a huge fan of cooks. while it doesnt offer large sampling of fun new recipes, it does teach you how cooking works and makes you a better cook and abetter interpretor of recipes easily found elsewhere...plus you get web access to the archives and can find the perfect means for cooking just about anything...

my bro gets good and just started dwell again, it seems. i havent looked at it yet.(am actually about to plow through the pram article in last months the wire so i can file it away and thenintended to glance at dwell).

i get art on paper, but am not impressed with it. ive let all my subscriptions, save cooks, go. i have all these "professional rate" offers for the nyer, art news, bon apitite, atlantic, and something else i will consider once i have a job...

ladyfriend expenses tons of stuff monthly, so im lucky enough to see vogues from round the world, world of interiors, and some other designy stuff often enough...all the m4rth4 stew4rt stuff makes its way home there and now that her roomate is at d0min0 i see that too...

its all really too much. even though i have seven day weekends, i still cant read everything i want

oh yeah i also get the wire

here the bidoun webite http://www.bidoun.com

i do know the publisher (and those girls on the camel which is in the park where i play basketball) - but really it is a great magazine abut "arts and culture from the middle east" - the design is quite lovely too

http://www.starwars.com/kids/explore/collecting/img/lego_magazine.jpg

I'm serious!

whoa mind meld - that was my second gis after aliens mag came up but i got sidetracked by other things and didn't post it!

"scott - do you have a metal hour show on maria's radio station yet?? you should!"

i'm gonna have a 3 hour show every other saturday. but i'm just gonna play records. rare groooooooooves. 60's stuff. 70's stuff. disco. whatever. it would be cool to have a late-night metal show though.

awesome

Good Magazine seems like it should be interesting, but never is. It's kind of a hip Utne Reader.

Bought this month's Oxford American today - solid mag, though it may depend on your interest in/tolerance for the south.

SPORTS ILLUSTRATED geeks

Sporting News, ESPN Mag > SI

everytime i look at a cover of a new york review of books i scan the contents and ALWAYS seem to think: no thanks, no thanks, no thanks, aaaand, no thanks.

NYR is less stuffy/academic than it appears but then I've got a soft spot for old guys like Garry Wills. used to subscribe but it's damn expensive like $50/year so I read it online now but not so often anymore.

i don't subscribe to the believer anymore. i guess i got tired of it? which is sad. i used to get really excited when it showed up every month. maria got me the latest one at christmas and i've barely looked at it.

yeah, the beliver has moments..but...only moments

Jane's Defence Weekly

New Scientist

I got an NYRB sub for Christmas. Every Freeman Dyson and Steve Weinberg article they publish is awesome. Oxford American music issue is always worth picking up. Physics Today is rad but I don't think you can buy individual issues. I bought like the first six or seven issues of Monocle. It's utter trash.

ah, yes cabinetis good

i was in cabinet sort of!

also, new scientist seconded/thirded.

It hurts to read Artforum. Finding the content between the gallery ads is way too much work.

oh of course, but at least....i dunno, 1/3rd of the gallery ads i'm totally fine with-- they're well done, and tasty rather than tasteless.

i also see my friend's dad (and my dad's high school classmate) in the ads all the time, and that turns me off.

http://images.villagevoice.com/issues/0714/saltz.jpg

he's an awesome and fun guy to hang out with, but... i don't understand. that painting probably sold for over 100,000$ . i mean, fuck.

people seem to want to put their money where the mouth goes...

Armchair General
Teen Vogue

how about mags w/good pictures that are under 30 bucks a year?

i hate artforum

bell_labs: hater

tru

I think the biggest hater on NB is "and what"

or chaki

im a lover. i love diet coke and little chicks.

little asian chicks?

i can't believe you are still so mad about the diet coke thing!

with thimble vages

im not mad at all. but keep taking everything i post REALLY SERIOUSLY.

haha

wait

i get newsweek it's pretty good

i want an investment magazine that reads like entertainment weekly

what you want is a jim cramer book

http://images.businessweek.com/ss/05/10/cramer/image/kramer2.jpg

eek

I want a music/lifestyle mag that reads like Readers Digest

omg

what you want is idolator.com

i miss getting US weekly for free. i would never pay for it, but damn it takes the pain away

^ typical nyu student post

that's kinda otm
xpost to chaki

i want to be the editor of this lifestyle/music/culture mag in reader's digest form right down to paper size

What do we think of:

http://thelmagazine.com/archive/covers/cover%20402-1.jpg

i like it ok

http://www.fairfieldiowa.com/images/MotherEarthCover6.jpg

see i would probably buy that :-/

i want an investment magazine that reads like entertainment weekly

Red Herring? Motley Fool?

btw anybody wants to send me $64.00 I can sign you up for a gift subscription to New Scientist!

how about giving it to me for my birthday

mother earth news is kind of awesome to read every once in a while but i wldn't get a subscription

do want new scientist too

agreed on mother earth news. would be cool if there was a mag sorta like it, but not written by old hippies.

the L is kind of infuriating...the horoscopes are really bad...really. im just not sure what the appeal is. its small, it has listings, but the writing is just not there...

http://www.amazon.com/True-Detective/dp/B000071HWB/ref=pd_sim_mag_title_5

oops.

hey does anyone read the times literary supplement?

i had a TLS subscription back i was like 19 and to be honest aside from a couple amazing pieces it was mostly reactionary "theyre teaching TUPAC in college!!!!@#!" bullshit and dull reviews of novels i will never ever read

my ex girlfriend *collected* L Magazine

i suppose thats better than precious moments figurines

"i had a TLS subscription back i was like 19"

lol