# What magazines do you subscribe to? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 31, 2004, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazines-do-you-subscribe-to/247906 "2004-05-31T12:37:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazines-do-you-subscribe-to/247906/1 "2004-05-31T12:37:02Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![CBCD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@CBCD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CBCD)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazines-do-you-subscribe-to/247906/2 "2004-05-31T13:22:35Z")
I subscribe to, and thoroughly enjoy: The Economist Entertainment Weekly Opera News Forbes No Depression ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazines-do-you-subscribe-to/247906/3 "2004-05-31T13:23:06Z")
[ul] [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] ---
**Author:** ![Archergal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Archergal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Archergal)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazines-do-you-subscribe-to/247906/4 "2004-05-31T14:58:13Z")
**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.) ---
**Author:** ![graceland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ec9cab/32.png) [@graceland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/graceland)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazines-do-you-subscribe-to/247906/5 "2004-05-31T15:31:32Z")
_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_. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Death](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecccb3/32.png) [@Evil\_Death](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Death)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazines-do-you-subscribe-to/247906/6 "2004-05-31T15:39:10Z")
SFX (UK-based sci-fi magazine) Uncut (like Rolling Stone, only good) … that’s it. ---
**Author:** ![unclviny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e274bd/32.png) [@unclviny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unclviny)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazines-do-you-subscribe-to/247906/7 "2004-05-31T15:45:20Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![whistlepig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/73ab20/32.png) [@whistlepig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whistlepig)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazines-do-you-subscribe-to/247906/8 "2004-05-31T16:07:16Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Shalmanese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shalmanese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shalmanese)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazines-do-you-subscribe-to/247906/9 "2004-05-31T16:38:26Z")
**The Economist** **Scientific American** Both highly enjoyable light reading material for when I get bored of reading lecture notes :D. ---
**Author:** ![Darwins\_Finch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darwins_finch/32/20304_2.png) [@Darwins\_Finch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darwins_Finch)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazines-do-you-subscribe-to/247906/10 "2004-05-31T16:55:42Z")
**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. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazines-do-you-subscribe-to/247906/11 "2004-05-31T17:26:07Z")
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** ---
**Author:** ![Lobelia\_Overhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@Lobelia\_Overhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobelia_Overhill)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazines-do-you-subscribe-to/247906/12 "2004-05-31T17:46:40Z")
Empire (movie mag) SFX (which they always ensure looks like it says SEX on the cover :o ) ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazines-do-you-subscribe-to/247906/13 "2004-05-31T17:56:25Z")
_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 ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazines-do-you-subscribe-to/247906/14 "2004-05-31T18:07:02Z")
**The Atlantic Bon Appetit [Elysian Fields Quarterly](http://www.efqreview.com/) [High Country News](http://www.hcn.org/index.jsp)** 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. ---
**Author:** ![Ultraviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/c77e96/32.png) [@Ultraviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ultraviolet)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazines-do-you-subscribe-to/247906/15 "2004-05-31T21:49:49Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Delly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Delly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Delly)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazines-do-you-subscribe-to/247906/16 "2004-05-31T23:31:39Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2004, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazines-do-you-subscribe-to/247906/17 "2004-06-01T02:47:47Z")
- _Scientific American_ - _The New Republic_ - _National Review_ - _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.) ---
**Author:** ![whistlepig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/73ab20/32.png) [@whistlepig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whistlepig)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2004, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazines-do-you-subscribe-to/247906/18 "2004-06-01T03:04:30Z")
> [@F. U. Shakespeare](#): > > - > > 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 ---
**Author:** ![Hedda\_Rosa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hedda_rosa/32/1204_2.png) [@Hedda\_Rosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hedda_Rosa)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2004, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazines-do-you-subscribe-to/247906/19 "2004-06-01T03:54:29Z")
Newsweek (got it free when I donated to my local PBS station) Parenting Entertainment Weekly Better Homes & Gardens Sunset ---
**Author:** ![brachyrhynchos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brachyrhynchos/32/376_2.png) [@brachyrhynchos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brachyrhynchos)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2004, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazines-do-you-subscribe-to/247906/20 "2004-06-01T06:33:15Z")
Right now, only [Science News](http://www.sciencenews.org/) (a weekly with little advertising). I’d like to re-up my subscription to Sunset and Bird Talk. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazines-do-you-subscribe-to/247906.md?page=2)