Which ones do you read regularly?
I am happy to say that I’ve stopped being interested in Mademoiselle and Jane, etc.
Now I like Time, UsNews, The Nation, Progressive, Utne Reader, Mother Jones.
Of course, I still like Us.
I stopped reading magazines when I started editing them. I can’t enjoy them anymore, I mentally edit them as I go through (“I don’t like that word-break . . . I’d have cut that sentence . . . Wonder who fact-checked this?”).
That having been said, I do occasionally read The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, The Skeptical Inquirer, or any mag with a cover-line that catches my eye on the newsstand.
By the way, I am so glad I left Movieline last year when my editor was replaced by a trained chimp. I still get free copies in the mail, and it gets drearier each month. Example: In 1992, on the 30th anniversary of Marilyn Monroe’s death, they ran a very funny, nasty article on “How to Throw a Dead Marilyn Party,” with suggestions for appropriate costumes and finger food. But this month, for Marilyn’s 75th birthday, they ran an advertiser-friendly page of high-end items Marilyn might have worn (jewelry, perfume, shoes, etc.). Yawn. No personality at all, since Ed Margulies died.
We are an eclectic household:
Newsweek
Scientific American
Rolling Stone
American Scientist
Yankee
Skeptical Inquirer
Technology Review
This Old House
National Review (occasionally – I like to scare myself)
Mad
Consumer Reports
Physics Today
Playboy
We are blissfully down to just a few subsciptions now. For a while we had so many that we never got around to reading some of them.
As a household, we only get Newsweek and Entertainment Weekly now.
Individually, my wife gets Shape and Martha Stewart (go figure), and I get Family Handyman and Bicycling.
My kids have Spider as a gift subscription from the grandparents.
Subscriptions:
Newsweek
Mademoiselle
Playboy
Art in America
Mags I like to pick up in the supermarket:
B
Mode
Vanity Fair
Lessee…
Entertainment Weekly
Baseball Weekly
And, for all us perverts… Club! 
I get Quick Cooking and LHJ (What can I say - I’m addicted to “Can this marriage be saved?”)
My daughter gets Astronomy and Teen People. She used to get Ranger Rick and Highlights.
My husband gets half a dozen yachting mags - from Wooden Boat to Professional Mariner.
Goodness, what an odd assortment…
Astronomy and Teen People??? I find Astronomy (or did, last time I looked at it) to be a pretty intensive magazine. You must have one smart kid there!
Either that, or I’m a dumbass…
We get:
Quick Cooking (christmas gift subscription)
OPM (official playstion - cool demo disks!)
Dragon (damn my hobbies!!)
and American Heritage.
Jane and Marie Clare for bathtub reading.
Smithsonian
National Geographic
Natural Health
Midwest Living, which I’m not renewing; the things they present (home decoration, remodeling, vacations, etc) are WAY above my standard of living.
I’m considering a subscription to Organic Gardening and Horticulture (or whatever that mag is called).
Subscribed:
Discover (which is about to run out)
Dragon
PC Magazine
Buy on a semi-regular basis:
Soap Opera Digest (blush)
Random gardening magazines
Readers’ Digest (double blush)
Read at the bar:
Pittsburgh Out!
Some other gay weekly
Read online:
PlanetOut(at least partly for Dykes to Watch Out For)
Keen(space/spot) for my comics.
jayjay
We get:
Newsweek (Free with a donation to public radio)
Time (Free with a donation to public radio)
Harper’s
Playboy (First and last year - doesn’t hold the same appeal as it did when I was a teenager)
Sunset
We also have about 50 Wedding magazines laying around the house…
I’ve been winnowing down the list of magazines I subscribe to (I just didn’t have time to read them all), and the only one I still get is Air and Space, and my wife gets PC Magazine. This time last year, I was also getting On Track and Aviation Week and Space Technology.
Subscribe:
The Economist
Scientific American
Time
U.S. News & World Report
Men’s Fitness
Discover
Premiere
Entertainment Weekly
Buy at the newstand semi-regularly:
People
Torso
Men
Bear
**TV Guide
Online:
Salon
PlanetOut
Slate
Subscribe
Architectural Digest
Vanity Fair
Newsweek
Men’s Health
Playboy
Southern Living
Pick up on a fairly regular basis
New Yorker
National Review (like CalMeacham, I want to know what the other side is thinking)
Esquire
I must have about a gazillion cologne inserts laying in my bedside table.
Subscribe:
Playboy (disappointing… not quite as exciting as when I was reading Dad’s copies when I was twelve)
Men’s Fitness
Men’s Health
Maxim
Stuff
Scientific American
Buy semi-regularly:
Dragon
Psychology Today
Popular Science
Subscribe:
Runners’ World
Weight Watchers
Cooking Light (Lord, I sound like a health nut!)
Women’s Fitness
Utne Reader
US News & World Report
Devour my SO’s subscription of:
Maxim
Biography
Also love but hardly ever read anymore:
Time
Newsweek
I don’t subscribe to any magazines but the ones I do buy are~
Victoria-Ummm…a nice Victorian mag. Not bought regularly.
The Disney Magazine(bought regularly)-not to be confused with Disney Adventures. That is for kids. DM is highly sophisticated.:rolleyes:
Victorian Decorating and Lifestyle-I like this one much better than Victoria but it is much harder to find.
And my dad had me subscribe to Archaeology before I changed my major. It had to be the most dry and unimaginitive magazine out there. Everytime it arrived, I would leaf through for the pictures, then toss it aside. I wouldn’t tell my dad though. He was so excited about my major that I didn’t want to disappoint him.
I don’t subscribe to any, but I regularly get:
DVD Now
Region 4
Cinefex
And I should subscribe to the Star Wars Insider, because it’s not available on the shelf anymore.
Apart from that, I’m not a big consumer of magazines. Used to be, a little, but not anymore.
Well, she’s finishing her freshman year in HS with straight A’s - and 4 of the classes are Honors. And she wants to be an engineer and work in a space-related field.
So, you’re not necessarily a dumbass