<p>Any magazines you really like or faithfully read? Or do you read it all online?</p>
<p>My husband and kids like Invention & Technology. It covers a lot of history of technological advances and can be a fun read. My favorite is probably Nat’l Geog. Traveler. The pictures are so great. I generally save them for when we are planning trips. I also like a spanish language interior decorating one called Casa & Estilo. I guess it is like Arch. Digest.</p>
<p>I am shallow when it comes to magazines. I get People, my father-in-law surprised me with a subscription to Entertainment Weekly (which is my new favorite). Cooking Light is great and I have decided to get Everday Food. </p>
<p>So I pretty much love gossip, reviews and food.</p>
<p>I particularly like Newsweek and the Utne Reader.</p>
<p>Smithsonian Mag and Nat’l Geographic at our house. Nat’l Geo has more pictures…SMithsonian has great articles on history, artists, musicians and authors that I especially like to read. I’m quite a novice about art, etc. and don’t know a lot of background info that many take for granted.</p>
<p>Mental Floss.
Good Housekeeping.<br>
Quilter’s Newsletter
Family Fun.</p>
<p>I read Sports Illustrated while riding the lifecycle at the YMCA. Then I enjoy Outside and The New Yorker at home.</p>
<p>Real Simple fan here.</p>
<p>Live for the New Yorker weekly. You can’t beat the level of writing, the cartoons or the hilarious reviews, or the thrill of yet another story by Munro or Murakami. I recall picking it up many times when young and comprehending nothing—just had no framework for it. So…on the CC boards, it is fitting to be thankful for one thing that is still quite wonderful in the USA as so many of our institutions are in steep decline…our many and varied successful colleges. I arrived at college with nothing more than having read a score of great novels, a marginal high school education, with almost zero exposure to things like museums and art, and from a culture that did not encourage discussion of ideas. I appreciate my college which sent me to a semester in the Middle East, Europe and a semester in NYC…and pushed me forward on so many levels. I want my kids to also feel “true to their schools” when they graduate as loyal alums.</p>
<p>I realized that I don’t really read very many magazines anymore. I pick them up once in awhile in the grocery store checkout. I do like People , as long as Paris Hilton and the likes are not gracing the covers…sometimes Self , More…I also like to snag my mother’s Country Living when I visit…in the doc’s office, Newsweek, Yankee or travel mags.</p>
<p>I subscribe to Atlantic Monthly because it generally has in depth news features. I’ll also pick up Harper’s from time to time. My in-laws get us a Sunset magazine subscription every year.</p>
<p>New Yorker–great writing; outstanding research. Some weeks, I can’t get to it all, but there’s always the cartoons!</p>
<p>Harpers–excellent in depth reporting. Again, great writing.</p>
<p>The Sun–beautiful, spiritual in an inclusive undefined way. Wonderful poetry, fiction, and photographs. Good nonfiction. Always has an interview with someone who thinks deeply and acts positively.</p>
<p>Orion–the best writing and art on nature and environmental issues. </p>
<p>Poets and Writers–hey, you never know.</p>
<p>Also sometimes Utne, Atlantic Monthly, The Believer (the best edgy quirky writing), and various little lit magazines.</p>
<p>Obviously, I never get anything done.:)</p>
<p>My “desert island” magazine, if limited to just one, would be the New York Review of Books. </p>
<p>Where else can you read (for instance) John Updike on the latest art exhibit, Joan Didion on politics, Zadie Smith on Kafka? </p>
<p>Their pieces are, it is true, so rich and spacious by modern media standards that sometimes one that I’m meaning to read doesn’t make it from the “to read” to the “read” pile. But it’s not for lack of interest. (And on a desert island there would be fewer distractions.)</p>
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<p>(Honorable mentions: New Yorker, Times Literary Supplement, London Review of Books, New Republic.)</p>
<p>Love the new yorker, scientific american ( kids need it for school) Vanity Fair</p>
<p>Cooks Illustrated - love the nerdy approach to cooking. Sometimes the recipes are way too complicated, but I love hearing the long discussions about all the things they tried out to make the perfect ____.</p>
<p>Fine Homebuilding - nice houses, the best source of details, practical.</p>
<p>Scientific American - readable but still detailed. Gets used for school projects.</p>
<p>We’ve gotten Bon Appetit for years (decades), but I’m thinking of dropping it. They’ve redesigned the magazine and I just loathe what they’ve done. Everything feels like an ad. I can’t tell where articles start and stop. The photos are too artsy and don’t look like food on a plate.</p>
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<p>mathmom – DH LIVES for Cooks Illustrated. Has taken to cooking on the weekends and will only use their recipes. I feel like I am watching a chemist at work, not a cook. He does clean up after himself (which is good, lots of pots and pans) but I find weird ingredients left over in the fridge and pantry. He makes their chocolate chip cookies for D at school and they have become legendary among her friends!
Vanity Fair is one magazine I just don’t “get,” 4giggles. If I want celebrities, I go for People at the doctor’s office or grocery line. VF is trying to be more than that, I guess, but it seems to be inbetwixt/inbetween – obviously not really a Harper’s or Atlantic either.
No O fans? (LOL).</p>
<p>Smithsonian magazine - it’s the only magazine where I read pretty much every article.</p>
<p>I read several professional journals every month. I get most of my news online. I have a subscription to only one magazine (here comes the confession), Oprah. Someone gave me a subscription a few years ago and renews it every Christmas. Much of it offends me - the over-the-top consumerism, Oprah’s habit of putting herself, glamourized to the hilt, on the cover every month. But there are some good columnists, Martha Beck, for example.</p>
<p>I got Cooking Light for years and loved it. Now I use their online recipes and don’t subscribe any more. I once subscribed to Martha Stewart Living for a year to torture myself. I remember articles on decorating garages - their garages looked better than my living room - and on artfully stacking woodpiles.</p>
<p>I saw some good ideas for Christmas presents for S1 and S2 here.</p>
<p>We also get Smithsonian courtesy of FIL and enjoy it. We also subscribe to Time and Utne. I subscribe to Gourmet and Saveur although I don’t seem to actually cook anything from them. My son gets ESPN and Sporting News. My husband and daughter fight over our subscription to Wired. I also get More and Ladies Home Journal. I look for discount prices on subscriptions on the internet so most of our subscriptions are around $10 per year.</p>