New titles selected by the Leisure Magazines Committee for 2006 include:
Adbusters
Based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Adbusters is a not-for-profit, reader-supported, 120,000-circulation magazine. Supported by organizations such as Greenpeace and Friend and the Earth, Adbusters advocates awarness of the effects from commercial forces. Issues range from genetically modified foods to media concentration.
All In
All In is the world’s leading poker magazine. Each issue presents winning poker strategies and tips, expert instruction, tournaments, player profiles, travel tips, lifestyle features, celebrities, and much more. All In magazine is a must-have for any serious poker enthusiast that expects to win at the table.
American Road
The Woodpecker Route, Liberty Way, Lonesome 50, Golden 99, the Lincoln Highway, Yellowstone Trail, Teddy’s International, and the majestic Route 66–these roads and others like them crossed our country when the motorcar was young. They were the auto trails that taught a nation to vacation. American Road is the premier magazine that celebrates historic U.S. highways and auto trails. It includes interviews with highway preservationists and road legends and contains the best information for road-travel reading.
Analog: Science Fiction & Fact
The pages of Analog magazine have been home to many foremost writers of science fictions. Editors take special care in featuring stories that are both plausible and entertaining. Topics range from gadgets to concepts on how future technology will effect the earth’s population.
Arthur Frommer’s Budget Travel
The magazine is a valuable resource for people seeking the perfect getaway. Visitors can easily find articles written by Frommers.com staff. So can they read excerpts from the Frommer’s Guidebook and even purchase the book.
Bark
Since it’s release in 1997, Bark magazine has become America’s most exciting and talked-about pet magazine. It offers readers a fresh viewpoint on behavioral issues, health and recreation.
Bitch
Bitch magazine brings a “Feminist Response to Pop Culture.” It is a print magazine devoted to incisive commentary on our media-driven world. Bitch features critiques of TV, movies, magazines, advertising, and more—plus interviews with and profiles of cool, smart women in all areas of pop culture.
Home Cooking
Devoted to the pleasure of home cooking, this magazine features recipes and how-to articles.
Kentucky Gardener
The only magazine designed exclusively for gardeners in Kentucky, Kentucky Gardener is an essential resource for anyone who wants in-depth, timely advice on local growing conditions. All stories are written by Kentucky and Southern gardening experts, so you’ll be reading about plants and ideas that work for your garden.
Layers
Layers is the “How-to magazine for everything Adobe” and is dedicated to teaching readers how to use Adobe’s industry-leading software products.
Mental Floss
Mental Floss takes chore out of learning by presenting information in a way that’s quick, simple, quirky and fun. It covers everything from black holes to the Dead Sea Scrolls, with its pages drenched in facts and trivia.
Mojo
This British magazine offers great articles that cover classic bands, stories, and the latest waves of musicians, from Americana to Blues to Brit Pop. There is at least one excellent long article in each issue, which will tell you more about bands than you can find in magazines published in USA .
No Depression
It is a bi-monthly magazine surveying the past, present, and future of American music. The ideal No Depression reader believes that Johnny Cash and Jeff Tweedy are both gods, and for similar reasons, they respect tradition enough to rebel against it. Started in the mid-’90s as a vehicle to cover alt-country upstarts, No Depression has since broadened its range to include all kinds of roots music, including folk, blues, bluegrass, indie rock, and even the occasional classic-rock icon.
Ode
Ode is an independent magazine about the people and ideas that are changing the world. Ode publishes “the stories that are different from the ones we are brainwashed to believe” . Ode challenges us and invites us to change. We realise that change starts with information. We can only make a choice to change things for the better when we learn how it can be done. Ode teaches and inspires us, helps us see how every one of us can contribute to a more just and sustainable world. Ode is published monthly in English, Dutch and Portuguese.
Paste
Paste is one of the fastest-growing, independently published music magazines in the country. The premier magazine for people who still enjoy discovering new music, prize substance and songcraft over fads and manufactured attitude, and appreciate quality music in whatever genre it might inhabit–indie rock, Triple-A, Americana, folk, blues, jazz, etc. Paste brings thoughtful analysis on the best in film, books and other aspects of popular (and alternative) culture.
Realms of Fantasy
Aptly named the “Largest Magazine in the World Devoted to Fantasy,” Realms of Fantasy, a bimonthly publication, is a professional market for the best in fantastic short fiction. Stories address many areas in the realms of fantasy: heroic, contemporary, traditional, feminist, dark, light, and the ever-popular “unclassifiable.”
Stage Directions
The magazine serves the strategic, practical and technical information needs of small theaters across the country. Each month, Stage Directions will bring you inspiring production ideas, solutions to your everyday theater dilemmas, as well as exciting book, CD and play reviews — everything you need to make your next production a success.
Under the Radar
For the best coverage on exciting indie-rock bands the world over, read Under the Radar. It offers intelligent, and sometimes humorous, articles that go beyond a band’s major influences, often accompanied by exclusive photo shots. The magazine includes exclusive interviews, album reviews and much more. Stuffed with insightful articles, relevant news and outstanding bands, Under the Radar is a must-have for fans of good indie-pop, rock and blow-your-mind alternative.
Women’s Heath & Fitness
The lifestyle magazine for health-conscious women who expect more than just traditional topics and conventional ideas. Each issue covers the vital components of women’s lives to help them become fit, healthy and beautiful.
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The leisure magazines are located in the Helm 100 Reading Room on the first floor.
If you would like to suggest new magazines for the Leisure Reading Collection, please feel free to leave a comment.
Brian Coutts,
Chair, Leisure Reading Committee