I know this is going to sound far-fetched, but some magazines still put out print editions. Seriously! On paper and everything! I know this because I myself read some of them. I even have subscriptions (they still do those!). Here, in fact, are the seven periodicals I still read on dead trees:
--Chicago Tribune [although I'm thinking of canceling my subscription because I find the new design unreadable]
--The New York Review of Books [but you know what bugs me about the New York Review? There seem to be times when issues only come out once every two months, followed by periods where you get a new issue every other day. I'm always either starved for Ian Buruma or sick to wretched death of him]
--Chicago Reader [for Hot Type, Savage Love, movie times, theater reviews, and Ben Tausig's crossword]
--Time Out Chicago [for that heard-on-the-street feature, theater reviews, and Novid Parsi's mean interview on the back page]
--The New Yorker
--Oxford American [but I'm pretty much only in it for the free CD that comes along with the annual music issue]
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--The New Republic [to which I will continue to subscribe as long as Stanley Kauffmann reviews films, which will apparently be forever]
I have subscriptions to all of the above, except for the Reader, which is free. I also occasionally pick up MOJO at the bookstore.
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