# Magazines **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 16, 2001, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magazines/65606 "2001-05-16T14:48:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2001, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magazines/65606/1 "2001-05-16T14:48:19Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2001, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magazines/65606/2 "2001-05-16T15:01:12Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2001, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magazines/65606/3 "2001-05-16T15:20:08Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Bottle\_of\_Smoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Bottle\_of\_Smoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bottle_of_Smoke)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2001, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magazines/65606/4 "2001-05-16T15:41:44Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![moi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@moi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moi)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2001, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magazines/65606/5 "2001-05-16T15:56:43Z")
Subscriptions: **Newsweek Mademoiselle Playboy Art in America** Mags I like to pick up in the supermarket: **B Mode Vanity Fair** ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2001, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magazines/65606/6 "2001-05-16T16:02:05Z")
Lessee… **Entertainment Weekly Baseball Weekly** And, for all us perverts… **Club**! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2001, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magazines/65606/7 "2001-05-16T16:26:33Z")
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… ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2001, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magazines/65606/8 "2001-05-16T16:28:59Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by FairyChatMom \* > \*\* > My daughter gets Astronomy and Teen People. She used to get Ranger Rick and Highlights._\* 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… ---
**Author:** ![Gravity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gravity/32/14322_2.png) [@Gravity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gravity)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2001, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magazines/65606/9 "2001-05-16T17:31:49Z")
We get: Quick Cooking (christmas gift subscription) OPM (official playstion - cool demo disks!) Dragon (damn my hobbies!!) and American Heritage. ---
**Author:** ![BunnyGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@BunnyGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BunnyGirl)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2001, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magazines/65606/10 "2001-05-16T17:52:45Z")
**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). ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2001, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magazines/65606/11 "2001-05-16T17:54:52Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![heembo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f6c823/32.png) [@heembo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/heembo)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2001, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magazines/65606/12 "2001-05-16T18:09:06Z")
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… ---
**Author:** ![Jet\_Jaguar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jet_jaguar/32/3562_2.png) [@Jet\_Jaguar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jet_Jaguar)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2001, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magazines/65606/13 "2001-05-16T18:09:25Z")
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**. ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2001, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magazines/65606/14 "2001-05-16T19:00:29Z")
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** ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2001, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magazines/65606/15 "2001-05-16T19:17:09Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Zanshin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e274bd/32.png) [@Zanshin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zanshin)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2001, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magazines/65606/16 "2001-05-16T19:18:11Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2001, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magazines/65606/17 "2001-05-16T23:43:45Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![VitrolicBump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a587f6/32.png) [@VitrolicBump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VitrolicBump)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2001, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magazines/65606/18 "2001-05-16T23:55:38Z")
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.☹ ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2001, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magazines/65606/19 "2001-05-17T01:02:53Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2001, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magazines/65606/20 "2001-05-17T01:04:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dantheman \* > \*\*… You must have one smart kid there! > > Either that, or I’m a dumbass… > \*\* 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 😃 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magazines/65606.md?page=2)