I look foward every year to seeing that message. I find new magazines (or old ones) to subscribe to every January. One year it was a very New Yorkie kind of list... New Yorker and New York...one year it was fashion fluff .... Jane and Marie Claire....last year it was Pop Culture-ness, Interview, Spin, Paper and Entertainment Weekly. This year... I am stumped. Entertainment Weekley still comes weekly since I got a really good deal basically year two free, but I really only take it into the office and the other three are expiring and not worth renewing for me.
So I want to replace at least four magazines because I will always have Vanity Fair as a subscription probably...its lush.
I have a list that includes:
Real Simple (the photography is lovely and the projects nice and the projects that they feature are nice too)
Ready Made (because clearly I need to feel completely inadequate in my craftieness...but it is a cool magazine)
Found Magazine (because what other people discard or mistakingly misplace really can be classically interesting)
Index Magazine (I don't really know why and I think that is the point)
and I do have to renew my subscription to McSweeney's.
So on my lunch tommorrow I am going to go down to the Tattered Cover and find if there is anything that I need that I am missing out on.
I am watching Drawn Together and it doesn't make much sence to me and I don't think it is particularly funny actually... but Cripple Fight was on South Park tonite and it just slays me, everytime.
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Have you considered subscribing to Heeb Magazine (www.heebmagazine.com)? It's an indie Jewish mag, very snarky and sarcastic and with some good, serious articles too. Sometimes I find it a little TOO out there; I'm not a complete "party line" Jew but I was a bit turned off by their very vocal pro-Palestinian stance - but it is still a good alternative if you're not quite ready for Hadassah Quarterly or whatever.
If anything, this month's issue is worth buying for the cover photo of the Beastie Boys clustered in a dark alley, drinking Manishevitz and playing high-stakes dreidel.
I will try and post this again... the original reply didn't post (I fear this one won't either...blogger's comment system kinda isn't all that great)...but the jist is the same...
This is the funny thing about Heeb. It reminds me a little of this San Francisco magazine called Davka that only published like 6 issues. It was so great. Much more irreverant and less on the edge to be on the edge. I do have every issue of Heeb. Irregardless of what is in it. I will support them because there has to be a publication for someone like me out there, even if Heeb isn't neccesarily it for me.
I think I am just a touch too old for it. I think it is geared towards the 20something, not the 30something. Which is fine.
My Mom passes on her "Reform" and "Hadassa" magazines, so I see them and actually sometimes they are a LOT more interesting... seriously.
So its like the best of both worlds!
I do wish though that Heeb could step it up and become a monthly. I think it is possible. But its mostly just because I forget about it.
Oh, I remember Davka! It was heavily promoted here in the Bay Area, where I live - Judd from the Real World was one of the writers and was on all the radio stations talking it up. I read the first issue (the one w/the Tatooed Jew on the cover) and liked it, but I was hesitant to subscribe because I doubted it would last . . . which it hasn't.
I agree with you about Heeb - I, too, and in my 30's, married with kids no less, so as much as I hate to admit it, I think I'm pretty firmly entrenched in the Hadassah Quarterly demographic.
I forgot to mention I also subscribe to Lilith - it is supposedly a quarterly, but seems like they publish once in a blue moon or so. I do like it; it has more of a feminist/liberal leaning that the traditonal mags, but still grounded in good writing and sound journalist. I REALLY wish it could be a monthly!
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