Favorite magazines, current or defunct?

[Flaxbee]

I liked Omni when it existed.

Now, I guess it'd be Dwell and Natural Home and Garden - Mother Jones, too. Used to check out Art & Antiques and Art in America, but haven't much lately.

What about you? PG, G or R-rated, just asking

Any suggestions on good art and design magazines are appreciated.

Edited to add: Cowgirl magazine... friends of family started it a while back to I subscribe to support it -- and it seems to be doing relatively well.

[Archae]

1. "Reminisce" magazine.

Goes often into stuff and times from when I was much younger.

http://www.reminisce.com/

[jp11]

2. I really liked Popular Mechanics and Popular Science

before the interwebs it was the best way to get glimpses of cutting edge future tech and what not.

Wanted Omni but didn't have the $ to get that.

[Tobin S.]

3. The only magazine I read now is Skeptic

I suppose it's more of a journal. They only publish once every three months.

I used to love Mad and Cracked when I was a kid as well as Field and Stream. I once had a subscription to Playboy, but I think my new wife would frown on that now days.

[Denninmi]

4. I don't subscribe to any now.

I used to get Time and read that weekly. My favorites were gardening/lifestyle magazines like Harrowsmith County Life, Horticulture, Fine Gardening, Martha Stewart Living. I found that all of those got kind of boring after a while -- how many articles on hydrangeas or roses do you really need to read when nothing profoundly changes? And, all magazines are now downsized and shadows of what they used to be. So are newspapers.

[femmocrat]

5. I used to subscribe to several, but "Colonial Homes" was my favorite.

I sold them on eBay a few years ago! I just found that I never had time to read magazines anymore.

The only magazine I get now is one about teaching, called "Instructor". Even those pile up.

[annabanana]

6. National Lampoon

ESPECIALLY the first couple of years....

[rug]

7. Utne Reader

[pipi_k]

8. My favorite

was "National Lampoon".

Sort of a more sophisticated version of "Mad", which I also liked.

Also, and I know it has Conservative roots, but I do like "Reader's Digest" because there is a lot of really good stuff in it. The jokes, mainly, and some inspiring true life stories.

[nolabear]

9. Oxford American

Southern, incredibly literate, and has the best music issue (including a CD) of anything out there.

[NRaleighLiberal]

10. so many....Downbeat, Stereo Review (not sure if it still exists)..Gardens for All (no longer exists)

Wine Spectator, Bon Appetit, Sky and Telescope, Organic Gardening (years ago), Rolling Stone, Grammophone.

don't subscribe to any of them any more - but catch up on a few every now and then at Barnes and Noble.

[hifiguy]

51. Stereo Review is long gone.

The leading actual magazines on (high end) home audio now are Stereophile and The Absolute Sound.

[csziggy]

11. Science News and Scientific American are my staples

Science News gives a quick overview of current science information. It started out as a news service for distributing scientific news to news outlets but has been its own publication for years. Excellent for keeping abreast of a wide range of science topics.

Scientific American because I've read it pretty much as long as I can remember.

Dad gives me Reader's Digest every year so I read it because it's here.

The other magazines I get are my needlework ones - NeedleArts (Embroiderers Guild of America), Needlepointer (American Needlepoint Guild), Needlepoint Now, and Inspirations (an Australian publication with amazing varieties of needlework and wonderful projects in every issue). And the ones I get because of my lifetime membership in Quarter Horse associations.

Oh - speaking of lifetime - I have a lifetime membership/subscription to National Geographic.

[HopeHoops]

12. "Ahoy!"

[tinymontgomery]

13. Sailing

Still subscribe to Sailing, and Soundings. One day I'm going to get one of those 42 or bigger sailboats and just sail away
from this place.

[mysuzuki2]

14. Any of the old pulp SF and horror mags.

there were at least a dozen of them in the 50s and 60s. Galaxy was definitely my favorite.

[Tom Ripley]

15. National Lampoon, Forced Exposure, Mad, Spy, Jail Babes

[YankeyMCC]

16. Asimov's Science Fiction

Economist
Outdoors
Modern Haiku

[MrScorpio]

17. I was a huge fan of Omni too

Sci Fi and actual science, what's not to love?

[RebelOne]

18. Playgirl. n/t

[msu2ba]

19. Spy and NatLamp

Snarky nirvana!

[kentauros]

20. Gnosis: A Journal of the Western Inner Traditions

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnosis_(magazine)



And since you like Dwell, you'd probably like "Unhappy Hipsters"

[Swede]

21. Heavy Metal and Omni,National Lampoon.

I don't see them anymore.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

22. Harper's, Scientific American, and BBC History

[Joe Shlabotnik]

23. I bought about 50 playboys from the early to mid 60's once

I bought 'em for the original Bond Installments by Ian Flemming, but I loved the advertising, art, graphics, articles and the whole era too. Then one day someone offered me $300 for them so I let em go (I only payed $20 for all of em )

[bluedigger]

24. I only pick up the occasional issue of Jp (Jeep), these days, for ideas on things to mess up.

But if this ever comes back...

[dimbear]

25. Weird Tales. Mainly the covers. There are a few virtually complete issues

you can download over at Wikisource.

Margaret Brundage is the artist to look out for.

All the WT covers can be found in high quality versions here:

http://www.collectorshowcase.fr/weird_tales_1923.htm

[LeftinOH]

26. National Lampoon. Funniest stuff ever:

[bobthedrummer]

27. Terry Southern effect...combined with all the others and the highquality art outrageous at times.

The original Lampoon crew spawned many colonies. One of them may have destroyed themselves with self-destructive sharp pointy object attack on their optical systems

[GoneOffShore]

28. Punch when Alan Coren was the editor

It kind of went downhill after that. And sputtered out in the 90's.

[byeya]

29. Evergreen Review; The Realist; In These Times; The Progressive Populist;

The New Republic - pre Martin Peretz days; Trouser Press; Creem
Down Beat; The New Riview of Books - depending who the editor is(was)

[hobbit709]

30. Popular Electronics.

[Art_from_Ark]

31. National Lampoon,

Coins and COINage magazines, Astronomy

MAD, Golden Magazine and Reader's Digest when I was a kid

[hunter]

32. Byte, the older issues with actual schematics and code.

The magazine failed when it stopped writing about things you could make in favor of things you could buy.

[Flaxbee]

45. Ever buy Nuts & Volts?

My husband used to get it all the time ...

I'm not mechanically inclined / don't make electronics kinds of things, but the magazine was full of schematics.

[hunter]

48. I certainly have!

Also Circuit Cellar, which was a spinoff of Steve Ciarcia's Byte column.

http://www.nutsvolts.com

http://circuitcellar.com

I'm also a fan of Make http://makezine.com

I used to be able to pick these up at local bookstores; alas the bookstores and newsstands in my city are all gone.

[6000eliot]

33. Spy, Trouser Press, and Creem

[AsahinaKimi]

34. NEWTYPE USA

I miss it so much!!!



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newtype_%28magazine%29

[Throd]

35. SWANK

I don't pretend to read the articles.

[harmonicon]

36. I forgot about Omni!

I loved that magazine. My parents had a subscription, and I read almost every issue for years.

I used to love National Geographic, and then it really started to go downhill sometime in the late 90's. I think it's picked up again, but I only buy it occasionally to read at airports or on trains.

I really like Archaeology, but I can't get it in the UK, and it only comes out every few months.

Another current magazine I like is Fretboard Journal. It's one of the few music magazines that's not completely dumbed down, so I sometimes read it even though fretted instruments aren't my main focus.

[zappaman]

38. +1 on OMNI

I got a subscription when it first came out and loved it!

[petronius]

37. Backpacker, Alert Diver, Surfer, National Geographic (nt)

[zappaman]

39. SHAVED SNIZZ*

*actual magazine I saw at a liquor store.
That was 20 years ago and I still regret not purchasing it so people would believe it exists...

[Major Nikon]

40. Life

[cynatnite]

41. Tiger Beat magazine. n/t

[Amerigo Vespucci]

42. National Lampoon, until it got to the point where it was no longer funny

But in its heyday...when it was written by the same guys who wrote "Animal House"...that was some funny stuff.

[NoPasaran]

43. These days, The New Yorker

[Patiod]

54. New Yorker and EW now, Spy, Wigwag, Utne Reader in past, New Scientist if I could afford it

The New Yorker provides the most good reading of anything I spend my money on. In spite of its price, it's well worth it.

We get our pop culture fix with EW, which has great book reviews along with TV and movies.

[OrwellwasRight]

44. Harper's (not Harper's Bazaar!) and Cricket for Children

[Manifestor_of_Light]

46. MAD, national lampoon, OMNI,

The Atlantic, Harper's and Scientific American have been around since the early 19th century.
Saturday Review went into four different issues at once in the 70s.
Have read The New Yorker for nearly 4 decades. The articles are shorter than they used to be. I read the cartoons and later started reading the articles. I don't read the poetry or fiction.

Art in America. I don't understand the art but I enjoy reading about it. There are also commentary articles about things like the new Alice Walton funded museum in Bentonville, Arkansas, and the trend of giant huge art and exhibitions opening in multiple locations.

Parabola is a quarterly. each issue has a different them and there are articles about the topic from all the major religions.

Hinduism Today is published in Hawaii. It is very colorful and interesting.

I liked WIGWAG when it was around in the late 1980s. It was a literary mag.

I have a complete set of the issues of FLAIR from 1950-1951. It was really ahead of it's time with graphics, cut out pages and things.

I also have several issues of a hardback magazine called AUDIENCE. I think it was put out by the same guy that published EROS.

[crunch60]

47. Life, National Geographic, Omni

[hifiguy]

49. My boyhood favorites were Mad and Road & Track.

I loved, loved, LOVED the National Lampoon from the early days til about 76 when it started to run out of gas and then again when P.J. O'Rourke became editor in '77 or '78 and revived it with some new writers including, believe it or not, John Hughes. Hard as it is to believe now, O'Rourke was once incredibly funny.

High Times and Creem were pretty cool back in the 1970s.

[datasuspect]

50. Barely Legal, Blax on Momz, Buttman, Any Swedish Erotica or Caballero stuff from the 70s and 80s

[TrogL]

52. Philadelphia Trumpet

I used to have a free subscription and didn't renew when it turned paid.

It's a wacked out religious nutjob rag of the first order.

The interesting thing is each article would go to great length indicating the author understood perfectly some topic such as economics, sociology or the Israel/Palestine conflict. For the last two paragraphs it would run off the rails about some wildass prophecy.

[Brother Buzz]

53. Smithsonian

I delightful mix of history, science, nature, the arts and culture