What magazines do you subscribe to?

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I am looking to subscribe to some new magazines, and was wondering what would be some good, maybe obscure magazines. I will surely get Wired and I would also like to get a news magazine like Times or Newsweek. What are your favorite magazines and why do you subscribe to them? Thanks.
 
aopa - premier aviation magazine and association

alcalde - get it with the membership

also, i've started getting a ut business school magazine. haven't looked at it though
 
Car and Driver
Autoweek
Road and Track
Alcalde

I'm thinking of getting a photography magazine sub - anybody take any of these, or have recommendations?
 
Sports Illustrated.

I also receive Maxim/Stuff & Playboy for free
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Newsweek and Time for my news
Gourmet and Wine Enthusiast, because I like to cook
Traveler Magazine because I like to travel and I love the photos (use them as guides to help myself)
Premiere - for my movie fix
 
Esquire is probably my favorite... great wrtting, I think it is a very clever mag.

I also like Men's Health, it had some useful info/tips

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Wired is an absolute must. Great magazine and very cheap ($10 for a year).

I like the Economist, though it can be a little dense and over my head at times. Good world perspective on current events.

I don't subscribe to Nat'l Geographic, but I would like to. Definitely a magazine I can read cover to cover.
 
Popular Science always has a good article or two.

Harvard Business Journal will have good reads.

Highlights is always a fun read
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Consumer Reports is great.

Enquirer is hilarious.
 
I don't subscribe myself to much of anything anymore. I do get National Geographic both the adult and kids versions. Gourmet, Southern Living and Bon Appetite are a couple the wife gets.

Sports Illustrated started boring me about a year out of high school. Newsweek and Time are both interesting to read but not interesting enough for me to read old news. A victim of the internet I guess.

About the only thing I am thinking of renewing again would be Wine Spectator.
 
Here are some I have/do subscribe to and my thoughts:

Sports Illustrated....... Very heavy NE bais, anti-TX bais...... do not recommend

Texas Monthly..... Good magazine, not great though. Decent rankings articles on state's best this or that.... neutral

ESPN the Mag..... Not sure I have ever read a whole article. Boring. Very poor story selection..... do not recommend

Soccer Digest.... good for what it was....... neutral

Fast Company....... great magazine, sml/med business mag, very interesting..... definite recommend

Men's Health...... Great mag. Been getting it for years. Much better than GQ. A little bit of everything a man could want in a mag.... recommend

Men's Fitness..... more fitness/exercise oriented than MH, but very good info.... recommend (if you workout/exercise)

GQ.... An interesting article every once in a while, but overall pretty poor.... do not recommend
 
Thanks for the suggestions everyone. I have decided I will probably get Wired, Interview, GQ, Mens Health and maybe Popular Science. ESPN the magazine and Sports Illustrated are horrible magazines and I pitty anyone that waste their money on them. I have never read Texas Monthly so I might get a copy from B&N and see how I like it. Thanks again everyone. Oh, Rolling Stone is even worse than ESPN or SI. I would rather read Cosmo than that piece of ****.
 
Bicycling - becoming more and more disappointing

Family Handyman - excellent tips and "how to" sections

Texas Highways - excellent for ideas if you prefer to travel off the beaten path

I don't currently subscribe to DIscover, Omni, or National Gegraphic, but I've enjoyed all of them thoroughly in the past.
 
Southern Living
American Spectator
Parenting
Juggs





just kidding

Men's Health
Texas Fish & Game
PC World
Popular Mechanics
Texas Parks & Wildlife
 
I highly reccomend the Economist, a weekly British economics/news magazine that is very fair in its treatment of politics. It also has exhaustive analysis on obscure conflicts and issues all over the world (keeping in line with the whole worldy British thing) that you would never get in an American magazine. Our family has three subscriptions (one for the parents, one for each of the college kids).
 
The Economist is a must.
I also get Money from the FPA for free
Barrons
Investment News
Journal of Financial Planning
Alcalde (that doesnt count)
Bon Apetit (a gift, i seldom read it)

At the office we get
The Journal
The Times
Financial Times
and just about every other financially related publication.
 
Economist - this is the BEST weekly newsmagazine
Rolling Stone - ok
Esquire - ok, but it's really cheap @ $8 per annum
Playboy - mmmmmm, articles
 
Family Handyman is a MUST if you own a home. The instructions for projects and home repair are complete and very easy to read. This past year, I cut all of my magazine subscriptions (Nat. Geo, Sound & Vision Review, Newsweek, Acoustic Guitar and a couple more). Family Handyman was the only one I kept.
 
I love Vanity Fair--great mixture of arts/pop culture/film/fashion/politics/literature. I especially enjoy the events calendar that highlights something interesting worth traveling to every day of the month--from art exhibits, to theatrical performances, to festivals like SXSW. I also like the Proust questionnaire in the back of every issue. All this for only $12/year!
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EW is my favorite entertainment mag. I prefer it over Premiere since it also covers books, theatre, music and television in addition to films.

For cooking, I like Gourmet is--it's a food AND travel periodical.
 
Economist is expensive, but worth it ONLY if you can find the time to read it. It can be overwhelming because they just keep coming and coming and coming and they are very very dense with info (though I usually skip the Asia/Latin American sections if they are primarily about domestic politics).

I also recommend Esquire for their feature articles alone.

Time/Newsweek are Sports Illustrated-for-'news' items.
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They can be read in a matter of minutes. And they are intensely biased.

I wish there was a sporting magazine that was like a print version of outside the lines/real sports (sans the gumbel)
 
We get:

The Sporting News. Even though Matt Hayes is a no-talent ***-clown, it is still the best coverage of Major League Baseball.

Entertainment Weekly. I read about half of it, vbut Shadowdancer reads it all.

National Geographic. Again, I read about one-half to two-thirds of it, and 'Dancer reads it all.

Health. This is my secone time to subscribe to it. The first time I took it, years ago, I read it cover to cover. Quit taking it because we had to cut back on things as I had just lost my job. I starting taking it again last year, and it has really changed. It's not so much about health anymore; it's more of a Glamour-type: mascara comparisons, what colors hose to wear, etc. I hate it, but I'm going to stick it out to the end of the sub in the (no dount) vain hope that it will change back to the magazine I used to love.

Alcalde. It comes with the membership, but frankly, I don't read many of the articles. It would be a much better magazine if it would hire me.
 
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