The Economist, The Week, National Review, Atlantic Monthly (so good its scary), The New Republic, Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, Top Gear (though they seem to hate every car!) and one guilty pleasure - Entertainment Weekly. Paris Match or Der Stern are fun sometimes just to see how crudely anti-American their covers can be.
The Economist, Harper's, Atlantic, Foreign Affairs. Also check in with Mother Jones and The Nation periodically. A good deal more of my reading is online.
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"It's about time some publicly-spirited person told you where to get off. The trouble with you, Spode, is that just because you've succeeded in convincing a handful of half-wits to disfigure the London scene by going about in black shorts, you think you're someone."
GQ, Esquire, Men's Vogue, Details, Cargo, Vitals, Cigar Afficionado, Robb Report...I subscribe to all those...
*****
[image]https://radio.weblogs.com/0119318/Screenshots/rose.jpg[/image]"See...What I'm gonna do is wear a shirt only once, and then give it right away to the laundry...eh?
A new shirt every day!!!"
Actually, this is one of my favorites as well. Also, Gourmet, Spin, Blender, Rolling Stone, Business Week, Kiplingers, Guns & Ammo, Architectural Digest, and Guitar Player.
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Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.
Anthony Burgess
Make, 2600, American Bungalow, Style 1900, American Scientific, Reason, Cinefex, The Wire, Future Music, Retro Gamer, Dr. Dobbs Journal, Servo, Linux Gazette
And, from the past:
Radio Electronics, Byte, Commodore Gazette, Compute!, Omni (sometimes)
Make, I think, is one of the greatest magazines ever published. If you are at all, interested in DIY, gadgets, or technology in general, it's a must read.
Almost forgot to add one I actually subscribe to: Invention & Technology
Monthly Review, New Left Review, Left Business Observer (a newsletter, really), Harper's, The New Yorker (still great, no matter what anyone might say otherwise), various law journals and law reviews, The London Review of Books, the TLS, Red Pepper, New Scientist, and last, but by no means least, Cook's Illustrated.
"There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell 'em." Louis Armstrong.
Arena Homme Plus, The New Yorker, Harper's, Vogue Italia, Vogue UK, Citizen K, The New Criterion, V, MIT's October, 10, L'Officiel Hommes, Artforum, Orientations
Car and Driver, Motorcyclist, and Cook's Illustrated. Dear Lord, Yckmwia and I have something in common. If everyone will excuse me, I believe I will now go and commit seppuku and reclaim my now soiled honor. (just kidding, just kidding)
CT
Fabricati diem, pvnc. (loose translation, To Serve and Protect) -- Sign above the door of the City Watch House, Ankh-Morpork.
The New York Review of Books, The Art of Eating (everyone who loves food--subscribe now! www.artofeating.com ), Mojo, Dwell, Historic New England, New Yorker, Journal of the Early Republic, The Public Historian
CT: Cook's Illustrated has probably run a comparison test on knives with which to commit seppuku.
Regular reader or subscriber of: Stereophile, BBC Music, Opera News, Arch Digest, GQ (new to this), Esquire, NYT, Smithsonian, Midwest Living, Wine Spectator, various law journals.
My favorite right now is Arch Digest. I'm just getting into that stuff, and, in the obsessive/compulsive male way, reading everything I can get my hands on. It was AD that convinced me that my future is not in my McMansion, but in some perfectly decorated apartment in NYC, Chicago, or DC.
My former obsession was Sterophile, but (after 10 years of collecting equipment) now I have a perfect system and I'm not interested in changing anything.
Actually, my favorite magazine of the moment is the eight DVD, eighty-year, collected New Yorker. Every page of every issue, and a good search engine to boot. A hell of a deal: it retails for $100, but one can easily find it discounted for half that. Who knew Louis Auchincloss only published three of his stories in New Yorker? There's a story behind that by God.
"There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell 'em." Louis Armstrong.
My former obsession was Sterophile, but (after 10 years of collecting equipment) now I have a perfect system and I'm not interested in changing anything.
Check out https://www.audioasylum.com, and prepare for a nervous breakdown. I used to be into Stereophile and The Absolute Sound, but then I started working for a consumer electronics company testing audio gear, and a lot of that stuff sounds like nonsense now.
My former obsession was Sterophile, but (after 10 years of collecting equipment) now I have a perfect system and I'm not interested in changing anything.
Check out https://www.audioasylum.com, and prepare for a nervous breakdown. I used to be into Stereophile and The Absolute Sound, but then I started working for a consumer electronics company testing audio gear, and a lot of that stuff sounds like nonsense now.
My favorite right now is Arch Digest. I'm just getting into that stuff, and, in the obsessive/compulsive male way, reading everything I can get my hands on. It was AD that convinced me that my future is not in my McMansion, but in some perfectly decorated apartment in NYC, Chicago, or DC.
One of the funniest features that Stereophile ran during the years I read the magazine (I don't know if they still do) was the musician's home system column. Almost invariably, the quality of the artist's system was inverse to his genius. The column featuring Milt Jackson was hilarious: he listened to CDs on $20 tabletop boombox. The Stereophile columnist couldn't get past that: he kept telling Bags that he'd set him up right, get a load of equipment donated by high-end manufacturers so that poor, benighted Milt Jackson could finally listen to music properly. Bags wasn't interested in the least. The dolt interviewing him wouldn't let the matter drop, and kept telling him what he was missing by not having an audiophile quality music system - what Milt Jackson was missing! It was an amazing column, for many reasons. As I recall, the only "celebrity" that had a really high-end system was Fabio.
"There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell 'em." Louis Armstrong.
D Magazine (local to Dallas), Veranda, Menswear, Menswear Retailing, Travel, Travel and Leisure, Aficionado, Town and Country, Robb Report, National Review. Occasionally pick up GQ or Esquire, but not so much lately.
Harpers, the Atlantic, Scientific American, The New Yorker, Collectible Automobile. My favorite, however, is The World of Interiors, each issue of which includes at least one well-preserved--but unrestored--historic interior filled with visible signs of contemporary daily life--comfortable sofas with faded damask upholstery, vases with flowers that are on the decline, walls that were last painted sometime in the 192Os, and, cascading off the marble-topped William Kent table on to the threadbare perian rug, an avalanche of unopened mail. The confluence of old money, privilege, history, good taste and the all-pervading sense of what-the-hell benign neglect that these rooms display is quite hypnotic, and these places makes the gleaming silver & polished mahogany in Ralph Lauren's ad's look downright glitzy.
quote:Originally posted by AddisonBelmont
The confluence of old money, privilege, history, good taste and the all-pervading sense of what-the-hell benign neglect that these rooms display is quite hypnotic, and these places makes the gleaming silver & polished mahogany in Ralph Lauren's ad's look downright glitzy.
I went on my first Oak Park house tour in the Chicago area last year (highly recocmended to all.) My favorite house was a relatively plain tudor style home designed by Frank Lloyd Wright's architectural firm. It was, literally, half-way into a massive DIY rennovation. Newer wallpaper was peeled off, revealing the beautiful, faded victorian style fabric beneath (the owners were having the pattern replicated for the rennovation.) Floors were stripped of paint to their original grain. Walls were brought down revealing the original floor plan. Great stuff.
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