Comments on: Magazine suggestions, please!

Question: Magazine suggestions, please!

echo0720 — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 07:55:07 -0800

Do you have any fun, cool, hip magazine suggestions for someone who desperately misses Budget Living and needs more stuff to read around her messy apartment?

Two of my favorite magazines died this year -- Budget Living and CHOW. I was wondering if you had any recommendations for replacement mags (print or online). I'm looking for fun, hip magazines aimed at the 20s and 30s sets. I have a wide variety of interests (architecture/design/girly stuff/personal finance/indie rock/etc...) and the magazines that I get right now include Under The Radar, Dwell, Domino, The Economist, and Real Simple (which I like but feel is aimed at women older than me who own their homes, whereas I'm young-ish, single and a renter, so it's sometimes boring). I really loved Budget Living and I'm so sad that it didn't last, so anything similar to that would be awesome, but anything else would be great too -- what do the cool kids* read these days?

*And by kids, I mean those of you in your late 20s and early 30s!

By: kelegraph

kelegraph — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 08:03:33 -0800

I think some of the Budget Living staff moved over to the new Martha Stewart magazine Blueprint, which has a similar focus to Budget Living. You may also like the more DIY approach of Readymade.

By: elisabeth r

elisabeth r — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 08:10:39 -0800

Blueprint is great- definitely subscribe to it.

By: sanitycheck

sanitycheck — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 08:10:56 -0800

ReadyMade

By: tastybrains

tastybrains — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 08:11:22 -0800

I second Blueprint, I love it.

By: LoriFLA

LoriFLA — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 08:18:03 -0800

Being a lover of girly stuff myself, I love Allure. It's the only fashion/beauty magazine that is halfway intelligent in my opinion. I could do without the celebrity profile each month, but other than that, it's a great magazine.

What about Bee,
Bitch,
Pink, or
Jane?

Jane is too young for me, and Bitch can be a sometimes be a little too intense. Bitch also has knitting projects if you are into that. I am sad Budget Living didn't last too. It was a great concept with quality articles.

By: schoolgirl report

schoolgirl report — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 08:22:14 -0800

Metropolis?

And as you may be aware, Chow has poured its energy into its website, while it "suspends" publication.

By: necessitas

necessitas — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 08:28:09 -0800

Wallpaper

By: mattbucher

mattbucher — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 08:29:54 -0800

Apartment Therapy

By: Atreides

Atreides — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 08:48:10 -0800

How about Budget Travel?
There's also National Geographic's Traveller and Adventure.

If you have any interest in foreign policy, I enjoy FP: Foreign Policy. It provides a pretty accessible dialogue on present foreign policy issues, which you may enjoy if you like reading the Economist.

By: tastybrains

tastybrains — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 09:08:34 -0800

What about Real Simple?

By: tastybrains

tastybrains — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 09:08:57 -0800

oh, duh, you already get it. :::smacks head and gets more coffee:::

By: Amizu

Amizu — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 09:30:41 -0800

I have nothing perfect for you, but....

Utne is good, though not aimed at young people per se. National Geographic Traveler can be fun, I second that. And what about fitness magazines, like Shape or Fitness Magazine (I especially like that one - seems like it has more substance)?

What about finance magazines - surprisingly interesting and can be fun in their own way. Kiplinger's seems to get good reviews, and enjoy it quite a bit. Not geared to young ppl, but it doesn't hurt to know more about personal finance.

Vanity Fair?

Then of course there's US Weekly and its progeny. Though arguably not cool or hip, they are indisputably fun and young.

By: grapefruitmoon

grapefruitmoon — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 09:43:36 -0800

Wallpaper* is amazing, but tends to be aimed at the jet-setting "more money than sense" crowd.

Still though, I love it.

By: delladlux

delladlux — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 10:29:27 -0800

a second for "real simple"

By: delladlux

delladlux — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 10:31:48 -0800

Ooops. Someone else not reading the full post.
Money Magazine is great read for budget living too.

By: athenian

athenian — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 11:11:49 -0800

I'm British and like to wallow in irony, so I read the Chap.

"The web site you are about to enter contains words and images that may induce excessive languidity and an increase in levels of panache."

By: The_Auditor

The_Auditor — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 15:49:02 -0800

TapeOp

By: Juggermatt

Juggermatt — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 23:05:18 -0800

Ken Jennings aka Jeopardy uber-champ highly recommends "Mental Floss."