Rep your Magazine Subscriptions (rr or nrr)
jlee
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my starting five:[/b]- The Economist- Men's Health- GQ- Details- Esquirethe last three are kinda bitch made, but like weezy f. baby, i gotta get my grown man on.riding the bench:[/b]- waxpo (i used to have it, but forgot to resubscribe, lately i have just been buying as they come out)- fader and the like (i don't subscribe, but i gotta keep my hipster cred, the Economist doesn't delve much into the new TVOTR album). 
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Foreign Affairs
New Yorker
Wax Poetics
BestLife
Mother Earth News
Family Handyman
Adweek
scratch (which I'm not renewing)
saveur
art culinaire
vice
- New Yorker (something of an obsession)
- Esquire (at $8/year, a no brainer)
- Art Forum/Book Forum (Latter has better articles; former, better ads)
- Money (Birthday gift, but I'll renew it; I could stand to learn some more about money)
Lapsed:
- Games Magazine (I like crosswords and all, but that was too much)
- Sports Illustrated (Bring back the long articles! Someone, fire Rick Reilly)
ArtForum
(what a nerd)
CMJ[/b] (guilty pleasure from the college radio days)
FourFourTwo[/b] (fantastic football/soccer mag from UK)
Wax Poetics[/b] (no explanation needed)
Maxim[/b] (can't front, I like the short articles for um, 'the office')
maSS appeal - hella boring
scratch -i enjoy this mag
wax po - just subscribed the other day
Details
Playboy (for the articles, of course).
-Fader
-Complex
-Vice
-Filter
-XLR8R
-URB
-Scratch
-Wax Po'
-Stop Smiling
-Arktip
-YRB
-All the Snowboard Mags
-Anthem
-The Royal
-ID
-Robb Report
-Ad Week
-Brand Week
-The JRNL
-Details
-GQ
-Esquire
-Stuff
-FHM
There a lot more.....
Vegetarian Times, which could stand to have more vegan recipies, really its wifey's subscription but I think I get more out of it
holy shit. your mailman hates you.
for some reason i always feel like i am looking at an encyclopdia when i see Nat'l G. Like nice pictures and all, but nothing really i want to spend my time with.
or perhaps i am just a layman.
They all come to my work so it's gravy.
Foreign Affairs
Far Eastern Economic Review
Saveur
Dwell
Buy a lot of other magazines off the stands here and there, but these are the subscriptions mayne.
Joints I buy off the stands sometimes:
Wine Spectator
Various travel magazines
Various food/cooking magazines
F.E.D.S.
XXL
King
All kinds of Japanese magazines (We have a Kinokuniya bookstore right below the crib!)
can we get an "I GETS MY GROWN MAN ON" graemlin?
SI
Playboy
I buy WaxPo every month and every issue of Ugly Things I see (Thanks SoI!).
To each his own, I actually really like reading about the pictures, gives them context instead of just being striking images. Last year N.G. changed editor in chief, and the magazine has been taking a new direction, more involved in current affairs, as opposed to sole travel, archaeology, and evironmental science articles.
I read an article they had a few month ago on the Kurds in Iraq that was really good. They have some great articles, its good to see them covering more current affairs.
*Entertainment Weekly
*The New Yorker
*The Week
(Work related)
*XXL
*Wax Poetics
*Scratch
(wife's subs that I read too)
*Cook's Illustrated (get familiar!)
*Wired
(thinking about adding)
*The Atlantic Monthly
*The Economist
I went to a taping of "America's Test Kitchen" last week; had a blast. They were making Meatloaf & skillet potatoes, and they tasted great to me. I also noted that C. Kimball and the other chef kept eating after the camera stopped rolling- the sign of something that actually tastes good.
this that show w/ the nerdy dude and the chubby chick chefs trying diff food products etc. if so i was mad hooked on that show when i lived in nh.
Yup...from the editors of "Cook's Illustrated". Definitely the best cooking show on PBS since the Jaques & Julia years.
Nerdy dude has a pretty wry/dark sense of humor that apparently gets cut in the edit room.
oh yeah, i remember some things getting by, and being like wha??
funny dude.
Vibe
New York
Interview
Entertainment Weekly
Atlantic
Harpers
Vanity Fair
Esquire
Gourmet
Saveur
plus a bunch of "parents" magazines....
To be honest, some of their recipes are just far too fussy but that said, I treat their "Best Recipes" book (which is like...two phone books big) as my first source for any meal I'm contemplating.
That said, their old beef stew recipe used bacon grease to kick off the browning of the beef but in their new version, they took out the bacon.
FOUL.
I got my wife that cookbook last year. She's used it a bunch of times. So far, so good.
British GQ (blows the American version out of the water!)
The Believer (literary mag - not sure I would renew)
Family Handyman (a very useful gift subscription)
Wired (free with my Salon.com subscription)
Wife's:[/b]
Gourmet
Bon Appetite
So how is Foreign Affairs?
What's its "slant"?
I've been thinking of adding either this or Monthly Review...