I subscribe to Scientific American and Discover. They used to be two ends of a spectrum. Now they’re all but identical. Sigh.
Subscribe:
Minnesota Monthly (for subscribing to public radio)
Various x-ray tech journals and trade mags (these get thrown out immediately since I’m not in x-ray school anymore)
Buy:
Newsweek
Time
Comic Relief (a neat little magazine that’s published in Northern CA and for which I need to get my hands on a subscription card)
Skeptical Inquirer
The Onion (print edition; my local B&N has it)
Ms.
Some of these have to have cover articles of interest before I’ll buy them, but Comic Relief and The Onion I’ll get anyway.
I like the “necessarily” qualifier there… 
But you know what, Astronomy is one cool magazine. That’s the one that has the foldout every month of a star map? And you can find out what stars are visible from your hemisphere by looking at it?
I should subscribe…
Maxim, baby. Love that thing. I get Discover, too.
And will someone tell me what this Dragon magazine is? sounds right down my alley
Subscribe: The New Yorker, Martha Stewart Living, Vegetarian Times, 64
Pick-up if interested: Vanity Fair, This Old House, Old House Journal, Big Butts
Subscribe: **
[ul]Some weird RACV magazine
Reader’s Digest **(it’s for my dad, I swear!)[/ul]
Pick up: [ul]Harper’s Bazaar
Vanity Fair
Cosmopolitan
Cleo
B
She
Marie Claire
Girlfriend (sister)
Dolly (sister)
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Buy Every Once In Awhile:
Irish America
Cat Fancy
My favorite “magazine” reading is actually catalogues of any kind.
Subscribe:
Scientific American
Pick up occasionally:
Tokyo Classified
Urecco Playboy-type magazine that my girlfriend likes to look at, too.
Ummm… that’s all. I guess I’m just not much of a magazine reader.
–sublight.
Subscribe:
Newsweek
Skeptical Inquirer
Pick up occasionally:
Skeptic
Entertainment Weekly
PC Gamer
Biography
Let’s see…
Time
Newsweek
U.S. News and World Report
Scientific American
National Geographic
Popular Science (my brother’s)
PC Gamer (ditto)
Next Gen (ditto)
Atlantic Monthly (mine)
And probably a couple of others I can’t recall…
Dragon (website) is the house organ for Dungeons & Dragons, published by Wizards of the Coast.
jayjay
Subscriptions:
Fine Homebuilding - Gotta keep up in case I ever build another house.
Wood - What can I say? I like to build stuff.
Readers Digest - My Mother gave us a subscription for Christmas. I read the jokes. The rest of it has seriously gone down hill.
From the newsstand:
Computer Bits - A great little free mag. I read it every month.
Model Railroading - My guilty pleasure, I play with trains, when I have time.
Somehow a lot of Gourmet and Bon Appetit magazines have found their way into our house as well, I think they follow my wife home.
That’s it. Mighty risable stuff, eh?
We subscribe to:
Time
The Economist
Backpacker
Entertainment Weekly
Saveur
Saveur is our newest magazine. So far the best food magazine . . . ever. We’ve made 4 recipes from 3 different issues and they’ve all been wonderful.
Subscribe:
Time - my parents have been giving me a subscription for Xmas since I got married, 26 years ago
Consumer Reports
Discover
Smithosonian - in part because I keep thinking I’ll get back to DC one day, and the subscription is also a membership in the S. Institution, with discounts and passage into a members-only dining room (or at least it used to)
PC Magazine and PC World - probably for the “free” CDs for subscribing
- Reader’s Digest* - Mrs. PlanMan (OK, I read the jokes and do Word Power - usu. get at least 18)
- Disney Magazine*
From time to time at the newstand, if an article on the cover grabs me
- Scientific American
Folio Weekly* - OK, it’s more of a weekly paper, but it has an alternative slant on local news and Cecil’s wonderful column
and newly switching from newstand (hard to find) to sub… Star Trek
Problem - I can’t bring myself to toss the old science-type mags … they are beginning to take over … how do I get rid of them? Also, how long do you keep PC mags? They get stale pretty quickly. Consumer Reports I like to keep until the yearbook comes out December, recapping all the reviews.
Depending on the magazine, I would say only a few months - ok, maybe six - especially for the two you’ve mentioned. Both of those are fantastic magazines, but with the industry being as dynamic as it is, you’ll find info in the October issue that contradicts that in the May issue.
But a really good computer magazine for novices, and one that can be held onto longer, because it supplies all sorts of PC and Internet tricks, is Smart Computing. VERY good stuff if you’re not a major technophile, and it’s even acceptable for the technophobe in your family.
Stuff
Maxim
Reader’s Digest
Taste of Home
Star
Field and Stream
PC Accelerator
I read the first three, and the last…
What?
PCXL was canceled?
Are you serious?
Oh, its people moved to Dailyradar.com, eh?
What?
Dailyradar’s canceled too?
Oh, there’s a PCXL.com now?
What?
PCXL is canceled as well?
sigh
Godspeed, friends.
Fortean Times
Bizarre
National Geographic
Maxim
Discover
Popular Science and Mechanics