I’m not going to cite "the usual sources," most (all?) of which I read, so please don’t be offended if you write for them or edit them. When it comes to media, I also love the following:
1. Entertainment Weekly; I devour it immediately upon arrival, there is no periodical I look forward to more. I often disagree with their reviews, but I can always interpret the bottom line. The coverage of good TV is without peer.
2. Fanfare, reviews of classical music, the reviewers maintain an impossibly high standard. I read it the night it arrives, and I click on Amazon to get what I want, end of story.
3. New York magazine; it has proved itself consistently interesting, and I don’t even live in New York.
4. The modern love column for The Sunday New York Times; here is one example. I read it closely every week. I just ordered the book.
5. The marriage announcements in The Sunday New York Times. I only read a few each week, but they keep my perspective real, albeit totally skewed toward the upper classes; the combination with the photo is essential. To the extent that this is the real news in a given day, our world is a healthy place.
6. Variety magazine by far the best movie reviews. Unlike newspapers, they don’t confuse how good the movie is with how popular it will be. Expensive but worth it, plus the foreign coverage is first-rate.
7. The Art Newspaper, all the news in the world of museums, auctions, antiquities law, art fairs, and exhibits. It is written at a very high intellectual level.
What am I missing? I don’t find Spin that useful any more, World Beat has stopped arriving, then there are the science magazines, Discover and SA are favorites.
amen on ew! i read it cover-to-cover, although i sometimes go straight to
what to watch. nearly every piece of writing, no matter how small,
is witty and astute, and i think they have the tightest overall writing staff of any
magazine i’ve ever read.
Have you ever read Fader or No Depression? I haven’t, but I hear they’re both really good music magazines. Has anybody else read either of those?
You would enjoy Seed – a type of science/culture magazine. If you’re really interested in the art world, the Weekend FT always puts out some good information.
I will second Seed. It’s fantastic.
Tyler -
I’d recommend Mojo and Signal vs. Noise as 2 magazines with great music coverage. Mojo is a bit more mainstream (albeit from a European angle) Signal vs. Noise is quarterly, so it shouldn’t be much of a burden and it’s coverage of experimental music is fantastic.
Kyle
I’ll second David Sucher on Marginal Revolution… almost
New Scientist and American Scientist are better than SA and Discover. American Scientist is basically real science.
If you like movie magazines, you should really give Empire a try. American magazines don’t hold a candle to it. I’ve had a subscription for almost 10 years, though a weak dollar has made it painful.
The only science magazines worth reading are Science and Nature.
Damn, Tyler, I can’t believe we read all the same magazines. EW is so underrated as a source for first-rate reviews from the perspective of what’ll play in Peoria.
And I thought that Jack Valenti had to be the only other person (or whoever replaced him) in DC who read Variety. No, I’m not in showbiz.
I also like the Art business journals although I read them less carefully and less regularly.
You should consider Left Business Observer. I don’t necessarily agree with it but everyone needs an antidote to Wall Street-think. If it gives Wall Streeters a well-deserved kick in the ass, it does likewise with dopey leftwing thinking about the economy. Very refreshing.
I hope you are merely linking to an example of EW’s commentary rather than actually calling Lost “good TV”. Lost is about as pulp as it gets.
I like The Week because I don’t have time to read or listen to the news anymore.
The Fader is a good music mag that, if you were ever interested in Spin, does the same job rather well (sadly, with the same number of flashy ads and puff pieces).
If experimental music is at all of interest, The Wire from the UK is spectacular.
Esquire often surprises me with the serious, issue-based journalism that they provide.
Premiere is a movie mag that has gotten much smarter the last few years and is my go-to for Hollywood film.
But Film Comment is KEY for all cinemas artistic rather than popular, as is CinemaScope (from Canada).
cabinet magazine is an excellent art (in that all topics can relate to art) quarterly.
http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/
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