what's a great magazine these days?

[Syrinx]

Playboy used to be great until sometime in the '90's. Nowadays the articles are shorter and less interesting. The interview subjects are mostly vapid and meaningless. (And the models aren't very interesting to look at either.)

I still get Esquire in the mail, but the layout is chaotic and the voice of the book is jumbled.

I liked High Times when it was a lifestyle, culture and political rag (and I had to travel to another town to buy it). But now that it is readily available, it's no longer interesting.

Rolling Stone is hit and miss. Kind of like Jann Wenner's sexuality. ;)

Seems like "Smart" was a good one but it only lasted a few issues back in the eighties.

Any nominations for a general interest mag for the left-of-center crowd?

[WCGreen]

1. New Yorker......

[Syrinx]

2. haven't looked at that one in a long time

Isn't it a weekly?

[WCGreen]

3. Yes, and they really cover a lot of ground.....

[KitchenWitch]

5. I second the New Yorker

Very intellectually stimulating.

And their cartoons are a stitch!

[ForrestGump]

4. I find these ones handy

when I'm dealing with Freeper types...

[KitchenWitch]

7. Paging ForrestGump: Please report to the gungeon!

:rofl:

[ForrestGump]

8. No way

:P

They're all crazy in there...









:hide:

[Robeson]

6. I like Ode....

...it can get a little to much on the mystical side, sometimes, but it always leaves me feeling positive, which is something we all need now-a-days.

[Spider Jerusalem]

9. The Atlantic Monthly is pretty decent.

Harper's isn't bad, either. I can't really think of many others, though.

[Cruzan]

10. The Economist is pretty good

Though in their need to have a point of view (or opinion) on seemingly all the news they occasionally (but not all that often) come up clueless, e.g. their recent mis-take on the political upheaval in Thailand.

[NoSunWithoutShadow]

11. VANITY FAIR

Sorry for the all caps, that is how it appears on their cover.

This magazine is excellent. The Editor, Graydon Carter, has written some very anti-Bush letters.

My hubby let his subscription to the New Yorker expire; he also thinks Vanity Fair is the only magazine worth reading these days.

[YankeyMCC]

12. Maxium

and Outdoors

Oh yeah I usually like the Economist too. :)

[Wetzelbill]

13. Red Ink Magazine

I'm shameless. I wrote for them before. :)

http://www.redinkmagazine.com/

[ghostsofgiants]

14. Z

http://zmagsite.zmag.org/