I subscribe to Scientific American and Astronomy.
I also receive Time, Newsweek and Reader’s Digest, because people give me the subscriptions as gifts ( I wish they didn’t).
I subscribed to Rolling Stone for many years but stopped a few years ago because I got tired of seeing scantily clad starlets on the cover.
If I were going to subscribe to another magazine, it would be Harper’s, which I occasionally find in airport shops; it seems fascinatingly quirky.
I subscribe to, and thoroughly enjoy:
The Economist
Entertainment Weekly
Opera News
Forbes
No Depression
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[li]Entertainment Weekly (switched from People three or four years ago)[/li][li]Vogue (20+ years)[/li][li]Better Homes and Gardens (10 years or so?)[/li][li]Metropolitan Home (about 3 years – mostly because my carpenter BIL loves getting it after I read it – yeah, I could get him a gift subscription, but this way it ends up in his house, not mine)[/li][li]Garden Design (2 years)[/li][li]International Figure Skating (5 years)[/li][/ul]
Primitive Archer – a great resource for people interested in making their own bows, arrows, and arrowheads.
Traditional Bowhunter – more of a hunting magazine, with the emphasis on using traditional equipment (longbows and recurves instead of compound bows.)
Hey, what’d you expect??
(I may also have to subscribe to some knitting magazines soon though.)
Harpers
Southern Living
Bon Appetit (bought from a co-worker’s child who had to sell for her school)
The Sun (literary/photography mag published in Chapel Hill)
Aperture
Vanity Fair
Guilty admission:
The other things I occasionally buy at the newsstand are People and Weekly World News.
SFX (UK-based sci-fi magazine)
Uncut (like Rolling Stone, only good)
… that’s it.
Classic Bike – classic/vintage (1960’s-1970’s mostly) British and European motorcycles.
The Classic Motorcycle - older mostly British bikes.
Classic Bike Guide - mostly “modern British and European classics” (1970’s) and most rebuilds/restorations done “on the cheap”.
The Antique Motorcycle - the newsletter/magazine of the Antique Motorcycle Club of America mostly dealing with American motorcycles.
American Motorcyclist - the magazine of the American Motorcycle Association mostly dealing with riders rights and issues and bikes of all makes and years.
Car & Driver - wacko’s destroying cars, real life road tests and sometimes P…J. O’rourke.
Maxim - they are excellent icebreakers offshore and I am still letting my introductory subscription run out.
Unclviny
Wired, Weekly World News (I bought it for the Bat Boy t-shirt), Harpers, The New Yorker, Montana Outdoors, Outside, Rolling Stone, Maxim.
I also read Newsweek and have an online subscription to the Wall Street Journal.
So from yeti attacks to half-naked starlets to financial and world news, I’m up on it.
Whistlepig
The Economist
Scientific American
Both highly enjoyable light reading material for when I get bored of reading lecture notes :D.
Nature, though that one is due to expire soon and I don’t think I’ll be able to afford renewal, and Natural History. That’s it.
My subscriptions:
Vanity Fair
Shape
I also purchase She, a British womens magazine which is much more intelligent than any of the women’s magazines published here.
Suburban Plankton’s subscriptions:
National Geographic
Travel and Leisure
Empire (movie mag)
SFX (which they always ensure looks like it says SEX on the cover :o )
Scientific American
Skeptic
Skeptical Inquirer
Vanity Fair (wife’s subscription but I would get it anyway)
Sports Illustrated (got a free year, like it but I won’t renew)
Haj
The Atlantic
Bon Appetit
Elysian Fields Quarterly
High Country News
Elysian Fields Quarterly is a baseball magazine that includes fiction, reporting, and history.
High Country News is a western focused environmental news magazine that I get primarily for its featured writers, a group called Writers on the Range.
I subscribe to : Entertainment Weekly (which I always enjoy - it is so much more intelligent than any other entertainment magazines) and Everyday Food (which, while owned by MarthaCo., never features her, it’s all recipes, practical advice, and lovely pictures).
I buy every issue of : Q (a British music magazine, which I adore), Bitch (a feminist magazine with very thought-provoking articles), Bust (another feminist magazine, more “pop culture” than Bitch).
I often buy issues of food, gay/lesbian, popular culture, entertainment and the occasional gossip rag when the cover appeals.
I tend to prefer British magazines to North American ones. They seem to be better written, with more intelligent and entertaining articles (plus there’s so much less advertising!). I buy those at the store, though, since they cost an arm and a leg to subscribe to.
Empire
Total Film
LOTR Collectors Models - dont know does this count tho as the magazine is usually 8 pages long, I get it for the mini characters you get.
I also get the LOTR Fan Club magazine every 2 months or so, but again not sure if it counts as its a fan club magazine.
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Scientific American
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The New Republic
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National Review
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The Funny Times
(All 15-20 years).
I receive publications from the Optical Society of America and the Baltimore Blues Society, from my memberships.
I have tried to stay subscribed to Spy, during the brief periods when they’ve been alive. Maybe Trump’s recent media visibility will be the shot in their arm?
I am seriously considering telling my various alumni newsletters that I’ve died. (Anyone here ever done this? Advice welcomed.)
I found a hotel in Bangkok, sent in a blurb for the newsletter (with the address) saying I’d taken over as assistant manager.
It worked for about 10 years, until I started doing some professional stuff with the university.
Whistlepig
Newsweek (got it free when I donated to my local PBS station)
Parenting
Entertainment Weekly
Better Homes & Gardens
Sunset
Right now, only Science News (a weekly with little advertising).
I’d like to re-up my subscription to Sunset and Bird Talk.