What (real life) magazines are you subscribed to?

[Eliahna]

None, but I do read the entertainment mags in my doctor's waiting room. I see Katy Perry and Russell Brand are engaged. They seen an unlikely pairing, but I have a feeling those two can make it.

[Red Stilettos]

Vanity Fair (my current favorite)
Southern Living
Mother Earth News
Coastal Living (dirt cheap trial from Southern Living. Won't renew.)
InStyle (free trial from Ulta that I can't figure out how to terminate)

[Mahaloth]

Entertainment Weekly

Tennis

[Sudden Kestrel]

Grit, Countryside, Hobby Farm, Hobby Farm Home (which we'll allow to lapse), Mother Earth News. We're paid up on most of these for several years into the future. My chihuahua has a subscription to Smithsonian, so he gets a lot of Washington-related junk mail like surveys from Nancy Pelosi and advertising from the US Mint.

[TBG]

None anymore. Last one I had was to Electronic Gaming Monthly before they went under. Actually, I somehow wound up with two simultaneous subscriptions. Later, when the magazine was revived, they somehow managed not to revive their outstanding subscriptions. Man, what a jip.

Also, for some reason I got an issue of Billboard in the mail recently. I never subscribed, never asked for it, flipping through it don't even find it worth reading or giving a more thorough pass thru. I dunno why they sent it to me, but if they try to send me a bill for it, I will laugh in their face.

[Pai325]

I forgot the New Yorker, Southern Living and Town & Country.

Town & Country was free when I renewed Vanity Fair. It's not something I would buy on my own.

[Dr. Girlfriend]

Food Network, Rachael Ray, Taste of Home, and Allure. Gran sends me Midwest Living and Better Homes and Gardens.

[Reloy3]

Mental Floss
Games
Games World Of Puzzles
Biblical Archaeology Review

[applebetty]

Mother Earth News

Country Living

Mother Jones

[Ruffian]

Household subscriptions (some for me, some for hubby, some for both of us, some for the kids)

The Bloodhorse (horse racing news)
The Horse (boring name for an excellent equine medicine journal)
Discover
Consumer Reports
Architectural Digest
Car and Driver
National Geographic Kids

[urban1a]

Wired (for many years), SciFi magazine and soon, Mental Floss.

One mag I would love to subscribe to is the ForteanTimes, except the subscription price is around $100.00

Bob

[kenobi 65]

Originally Posted by Maserschmidt

I'll say they're hard up - Sports Illustrated, Entertainment Weekly, Men's Health and Golf have all been showing up free in my mailbox for a while, and I never subscribed to them in the first place.

That's apparently how I started getting Rolling Stone out of the blue, three years ago. I suspect that they bought a subscriber list from Guitar Player, and gave me a complimentary subscription. I liked it enough that I renewed it when the initial subscription ended.

My wife suddenly wound up with a subscription to Popular Science a couple of months ago, probably via the same sort of mechanism. Neither of us find it particularly interesting reading, and we'll let it lapse.

[Infovore]

Writer's Digest for me.
USA Hockey for the spouse.
We both do most of our reading online these days.

[InsomniaMama]

Originally Posted by kenobi 65

And then went to an online-only format in 2007 or 2008, when Wizards of the Coast ended Paizo's license for the title (as well as Dungeon). I'm still technically a "subscriber" to both magazines, but they no longer fit the OP's question.

Have you tried Kobold Quarterly? Similar, yet different.

We get National Geographic Kids, Discovery Girls (for the kids, obviously) and Mother Earth News. We keep getting free copies of Reader’s Digest, which embarrasses me no end. I don’t want any visitors to think that I pay for it! Got a random copy of Billboard recently. It had a Justin Bieber article. Squee, said my daughter. I never saw it again. Wonder whether it was any good.

[Mtgman]

Originally Posted by Antigen

After reading the free copy of Scientific American I got at a recent science expo, I think I may treat myself to a subscription. I've heard, though, that it's been declining in quality and becoming more shallow - thoughts? I also got a free "Science News", "New Scientist" and "American Scientist", all of which seemed pretty interesting. Does anyone have experience with those?

Scientific American is still a fine popular science magazine. They still draw nobel laureates to write for them and they still have some of the best non-specialized coverage of science available on the newsstand. They're not Nature or Discover, but they have some really good stuff. The handful of opinion pieces per issue tend to pretty much be completely about environmental issues or environmental policy issues, but that's the only thing I'd say is shallow about the magazine.

I've had some good experience with New Scientist, not so much with Science News or American Scientist unless they've changed in the past few years.

I take Scientific American, Scientific American: Mind, Popular Mechanics, Smithsonian, and buy occasional issues of National Geographic. I'm dropping Popular Mechanics because they seem to be moving more into a "Consumer Reports" type of model and less about actual mechanics stuff. Plus their "DiY" articles have been really terrible recently. I did enjoy the "Mythbusters" issue though. Is there anything Adam and Jamie can't do well? Aside from Unchained Reaction of course. It's possible the show will get better, but it's just really one trick ponyish right now.

Enjoy,
Steven

[Qadgop the Mercotan]

Currently:

Cuisine at Home

The Week

Used to get lots more, fell out of the habit of reading 'em. Not enough time.

In days of yore: Time, Newsweek, Nat Geo, Smithsonian, Atlantic Monthly, Discovery, Scientific American, TV Guide, National Lampoon.

Still get sent to me at my office just because I have an MD after my name: Sports Illustrated, Boy's Life, Car & Driver, Ebony, Highlights, Good Housekeeping, Essence, Field & Stream, etc. etc.

[That Don Guy]

Sports Illustrated
ESPN (2 weeks)
Time
TV Guide
Entertainment Weekly
Games (monthly, sometimes longer - I think it's 8 issues/year)
PC Gamer (monthly)
Private Eye (British, 2 weeks)
When Saturday Comes (British soccer monthly)
(titles are usually weekly unless otherwise noted)

Also, I get Via ("Westways for the part of California where the AAA trucks are yellow instead of blue"), but I don't "subscribe" to it so much as get it for free as part of my AAA membership.

[Runestar]

Newsweek
Smithsonian
National Geographic
Car & Driver
Road & Track
Automobile
Roundel (BMW Car Club of America's magazine)
Consumer Reports
PC Gamer
Maximum PC

[Astroboy14]

Rolling Stone: I rarely give a crap about any of the music stuff, but damn they run some good articles.

I like Wired, but I had to let my subscription lapse because I literally couldn't read it anymore! Even with my bifocals, the print is just too f'ing small. So now I get for free on the internet what I was quite happy to pay for.

[Taomist]

None.

I almost bought a magazine for the first time in at least a couple of decades, just last night.
It was Rolling Stone, which currently has Peter Dinklage on the cover. I was psyched...until I picked up the magazine. It seems to have become rather anemic over the years; wtf happened to Rolling Stone? You used to be able to beat off bears with it; now a mosquito would laugh at it.

[abbeytxs]

The Economist
Vanity Fair
Consumer Reports
Tennis (I get it for having a USTA membership)

[Sattua]

Southern Living
Martha Stewart Living
Good Housekeeping
Real Simple
Architectural Digest

[Sigmagirl]

Entertainment Weekly
InStyle
Midwest Living
Martha Stewart Living
Ohio Magazine
Bon Appétit
American Bungalow
Style 1900
Cook's Illustrated

I recently subscribed to Vogue because I had some bonus points and got it for free.

[kenobi 65]

Originally Posted by InsomniaMama

Have you tried Kobold Quarterly? Similar, yet different.

I have. I was a charter subscriber, but I wound up letting it lapse a year or so ago. Keep meaning to get back to it.

[Astroboy14]

Originally Posted by Taomist

It seems to have become rather anemic over the years; wtf happened to Rolling Stone? You used to be able to beat off bears with it; now a mosquito would laugh at it.

Vaseline works better. Just sayin'.

[Gangster Octopus]

Originally Posted by That Don Guy

When Saturday Comes (British soccer monthly)

I used to subscribe to FourFourTwo, another British soccer monthly, but stopped. I have thought of trying it again, how does WSC compare?

[vix]

Every last one of these are gifts:

The New Yorker
Better Homes and Gardens
Family Circle
Smithsonian
The Atlantic
The Economist (which my parents subscribe to and then send to us)
We may still be getting Parenting? I let it lapse but it kept coming for a while. I think it stopped after our recent move.

And for the kids (also gifts):
Babybug
Click
Ladybug
National Geographic Little Kids
National Geographic Kids
Highlights High Five
Wild Animal Baby
Big Backyard

[dalej42]

Barrons and Baseball Digest.

I think Barrons is from unused airline miles, I've never paid for it.

Baseball Digest is more focused on the history of the game or running player profiles, so the content never really gets outdated. It is bathroom browsing or something I'll bring along if I want something to read, but don't want to drain the phone battery.

[kenobi 65]

Originally Posted by dalej42

Baseball Digest is more focused on the history of the game or running player profiles, so the content never really gets outdated. It is bathroom browsing or something I'll bring along if I want something to read, but don't want to drain the phone battery.

Man, that brings back memories. I subscribed to both Baseball Digest and Football Digest all through high school (late 70s / early 80s).

[chizzuk]

People and Time.

I love trashy magazines. In addition to my subscription, I will often buy Us Weekly or some other similar garbage at the grocery checkout if the cover catches my interest.

[Quimby]

Originally Posted by InsomniaMama

Have you tried Kobold Quarterly? Similar, yet different.

I tried that but I decided to stick with Hobgoblins Today and Eye on Beholders.

[MrDibble]

Originally Posted by Voyager

Now the rest are magazines I get as a consequence of other things

Oooh, I forgot - I get some stuff as a consequence of being in the SCA - Tounaments Illuminated and Compleat Anachronist.

[Kimballkid]

Playboy
Maxim
South Dakota Magazine (gift from my mother)