Showing posts with label soccer magazines. Show all posts
Showing posts with label soccer magazines. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 25, 2014
France Football - Tuesday Edition
Tuesday, May 20, 2014
Lithuanian Heritage Magazine
Ina Bray, Seattle WA
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"Lithuanian Heritage" is a great magazine for anyone interested in Lithuania, Lithuanians, or European history. The articles are expertly written, and each issue contains important updates on the impact of Lithuanians around the world, Lithuanian customs, and efforts to preserve Lithuanian heritage. Famous and influential Lithuanians are profiled in every issue, and important cultural points of interest (like, for example, the Vilnius Museum of Antiquities) are discussed in depth in well-illustrated articles.Many articles deal with Lithuanian life, with diverse topics ranging from Christmas in Lithuania to skiing in Lithuania. Most issues also include articles on Lithuanian cooking, in a well done column by Dana Siliunas titled "Let's Cook Lithuanian." These recipes for traditional dishes like "Poppy Seed Milk," "Fish Fillets in Tomato Sauce," and "Christmas Eve Biscuits" are simple, yet delicious cultural reminders.
The magazine is available by subscription or at several retail outlets (though mostly in the Chicago area and Ohio), and for anyone interested in the lore, history, pageantry, and, yes, heritage, of Lithuania, this is the best publication you will ever find!
Friday, January 17, 2014
Wine Enthusiast (1-year auto-renewal)
I have only received one issue of Wine Enthusiast so far (April 2011). I have found the content to be informative, interesting and useful, and I like the layout. It is definitely something I will read cover to cover. There are plenty of wine reviews, organized according to region and grape. There are also reviews for spirits and beer.
WE certainly has its full page advertisements, but they are placed well enough as to not be obnoxious. The travel and food spreads are a nice addition. The recipes look tasty and are not overly complicated, as is often the case in food and wine magazines.
It doesn't hurt that the first issue I received has a great article on Sangiovese, my favorite wine grape of all time!I have subscribed to Wine Enthusiast for at least 4 years and have always liked the content. However, this year's renewal did not go smoothly and I was not sent the 2012 Top 100 issue. It's very disappointing because it's my favorite issue.
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Read the first issue cover to cover. Great content about wine.First issue came a month late. Right now it looks like the second issue will also.
First issue came pretty well beat up. Needs a plastic shipping sleeve.
Love the magazine, good writing great photos.
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Sports Illustrated (1-year auto-renewal)
Years pass. The boy becomes a man at least insofar as Draft Board #1 in Smithtown Long Island believes, and Mildred Yarusso sends me a ticket for my all expense paid tour of Vietnam. A year later, I return. So my life is a little chaotic, as one might expect, a little mecurial, a little off balance, a little noisy. You guys know what I'm talking about.
But one Christmas maybe that year, maybe the following year, I'm in my old bedroom. And I look in my closet, remembering that therein lay a fortune in pics of Floyd Patterson, a snarling Cassius Clay, Joe D (that's Dimagio, not Dumars), Willy, Roy C and, THEY'RE GONE. Mom, I yell, where are my SI's? "Oh, Larry," comes the response from downstairs, "they were so old I threw them out."
Well, it's OK. I mean Hell, all in all, I came out OK. But I still love the magazine. It still has the best writing around, Zimmermann, Reilly . . . the recent article on Jermaine Ewell by Jon Wertheim brought tears to my eyes. Only SI can do that . . . well, yeah, and the Red Sox losing. The sections, Faces in the Crowd, the Inside Sports columns. Like my brothers say, 'it's all good.' I look forward to the next 50. Oh. Yeah. The Swimsuit issue. What's the big deal? Who writes these anti-SI letters every year? Do you live in a cave? 5 Stars. Larry Scantlebury
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Just got this in the mail: If I allow SI to charge my credit card NOW for a subscription that isn't due to renew until 12/24/2007, they will send me 60 issues for $39.00, or .65 per issue. I have the right to discontinue this automatic billing at any time. So there is a very slight savings, somewhat offset by the fact that they will use my $$$ for an extra 9 months or so (recognizing that at the typical bank interest rate of 2%, that interest is worth about 50 cents, so I guess it pushes the per issue rate up to .66).Read Best Reviews of Sports Illustrated (1-year auto-renewal) Here
Think I might go digital in the future. Mag is good to read each week. Might find a better deal as well.I renew this subscription every year for my nephew, who is an avid sports fan. He loves the magazine and passes it along to his older brother each month. The subscription service is great, and renewing the subscription is very easy. I would recommend the magazine to anyone who loves and sports.Thursday, January 16, 2014
In These Times
The writing and topics are engaging, current, and well researched and the editors not afraid to call things as they see fit.
Put down the Cosmo for later, and read a few articles you won't find on the TV mainstream news. after all.. knowlege is power.If you are looking for an informative monthly on the left In These Times (ITT) offers thought-provoking commentary and articles that are pithy but not skimpy (a characteristic I sometimes find of the weekly The Nation).
Most importantly, ITT reports on labor every issue, an important component of the left, that is often neglected by other magazines of the left.
In These Times is a magazine that may be harder to find in a library. If you are interested, I suggest first visiting their website which allows you to read portions of the current magazine without paying anything.
The price for the magazine is very reasonable, and I personally find the magazine content more diverse and interesting than The Progressive.Definitely an interesting read, no matter what you think about the points of view expressed. Good magazine to read on a cold night.My fiance got me a subscription for my bday (I asked four it) and I love this magazine. It is very informative and covers a lot of issues. The magazine contains a great balance of different issues from different places. I like to read the articles about world news because I see less and less of that in the main stream media. Enjoy this wonderful magazine!I just finished my first issue and am not so crazy about it. I consider myself pretty liberal, but this is waaayy left of where I'm at. It's not that I disagree with any of the positions the magazine takes, its just that it is very slanted in its opinion (and it is pretty much ALL opinion) and seems targeted toward people who are active activists. I like to be informed, but I prefer to hear all sides of an issue so I can make an informed decision. I was hoping for a news magazine that goes a little more in depth than, say, Time Magazine. But this doesn't seem so much a news magazine as it is a progressive/liberal opinion magazine. It is well written, but not what I was hoping for.
Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Sale E Pepe
Sunday, September 22, 2013
Petersen's Bowhunting (1-year auto-renewal)
All bowhunting all the time.I renewed my hubby's subscription to this magazine through Amazon. It's one of his faves, and I'd rather have hunting mags on the back of the toilet than what could be there. LOL. I love the convenience of Amazon, and the magazines autorenewal is just icing on the cake!
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When my husband was young he did a little archery hunting. He's retired now and decided to take it up again. He's been on two hunting trips. The first trip he got himself his first deer. The second trip he wasn't as lucky. He's been enjoying reading stories of the techniques other archery hunters use.Read Best Reviews of Petersen's Bowhunting (1-year auto-renewal) Here
Good magazine. Only complaint is that they send "THIS IS YOUR LAST ISSUE" from about the 3rd month, on ... annoying and confusing.Tuesday, August 6, 2013
Real Simple (1-year auto-renewal)
An idea for avoiding dishes? Buy lots of coffee filters, line your mixing bowls with them and throw them away when you're done. This turns us into a disposable lifestyle, not a simple one. Need to figure out if a window is sunny enough for a plant? Buy a $60 device that (I kid you not) plugs into the dirt, records the sunlight for you and then plugs into your USB port to tell you what it saw. There's an article on an interracial marriage which doesn't sound simple to me, and while it's cool, it doesn't help me learn anything about living more simply.
How about dressing simply? They want you to buy an $85 pair of flats and a $68 belt. Maybe a $70 pair of shorts.
Some articles are helpful. How can you spot a fake bill? Might be useful to know. Other articles miss out on basics. They talk about how a pound of sugar was 12 cents in 1960 and is now 52 cents but they say nothing at all about what it WOULD be adjusted for inflation. Is this higher than before? Lower? Nobody knows.
There are good tips in here. Go to your library and use their vast resources for free. Negotiate with your health care provider for lower costs. Use local playgrounds for exercise and fun. Bring your lunch, don't eat out. Even so, you turn the page and they're suggesting $200 blazers as cool items for the simple household blazers that, honestly, most of us would only wear once or twice given its color and what it would go with in a given season. Never mind the $400 giant black jumpsuit. Not simple.
I'm not saying simple has to be boring or drab but there is a big difference, in my mind, between recommending a simple item of clothing that could be worn every week without an issue and recommending a $400 splurge on something that would rarely be brought from the closet. That belongs more in a "splurge fashion" magazine, not a "real simple" magazine.
So while I appreciate some of the tips here, there was too much emphasis on buying things especially things people simply don't need. I feel the magazine falls into this category itself.I'll admit it -I buy every issue of this magazine. The title, however, always calls up a wry grin. The simple lifestyle the book advocates isn't all that easy! To achieve it you'll have to go buy the materials for the magazine's simplifying project, then re-arrange your house so you have a place to work on the project (which naturally requires purchasing even more things) and then finally you'll have to find the time to actually complete the project. Of course, to find the time you'll have to buy a new wall calendar and clock and Rolodex. I think the magazine has hit the American pluse on the button -spend limited money and time to help better organize limited money and time, all while reminding yourself how beneficial and FUN all this work is. Oh, and don't forget to turn your repeated shopping trips to Target into "quality time" with your two-year-old in the process. So what do I do with the magazine? I'll go home after a tough day at work, and enjoy a cup of off-the-shelf non-gourmet herbal tea (cracked coffee mug, water heated in cheap saucepan with missing handle) and fantasize about leading the kind of lifestyle the magazine portrays. I read about gifts to buy the boss (as if!) and about knitting scarves, and all those premanufactured pastel "lifestyle accessories." The latest issue has advice on picking chocolates. I have one word on the subject -Hershey's. The whole magazine is far outside my salary, and the total opposite of my garage-sale Western-omelet-at-Denny's lifestyle. It's escapism, pure and SIMPLE.
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Don't get me wrong..I love the two hard cover books, Real Simple Solutions and Real Simple: The Guide to Organized Living. They are gems. However, the magazine simply betrays it's words. As one rater stated, it seems like the reader is cajoled into buying un-needed expensive products, and my god..the magazine is cluttered with ads and inserts, plus it is very hard to turn the pages and read. I realize ads are necessary, but this is extreme, especially for a magazine that supposedly promotes a less complicated and cluttered life for it's readers.I subscribed to Real Simple from the first issue for several years. At first it had some great unique ideas, and some really cool decorating ideas. Then, shortly after the second year, they seemed to run out of ideas. Unfortunately, they kept publishing anyway. The ideas rerun so often, if I flip through one now I find the SAME recipes (ravioli lasagna) and SAME tips they had the first year. Huge disappointment. If you are interested, don't commit for more than a year!I enjoy reading Real Simple. The articles are informative and the magazine is beautiful to look at. I disagree that the content is not substantial it is a monthly magazine, what exactly were you expecting? I also disagree that the magazine solely targets those in an upper income bracket. While some of the items they suggest are things my husband and I still dream of, there are also items they review regularly that you can pick up at CVS Pharmacy. In fact, the product reviews are probably the most useful part of the magazine. I like seeing purchase information next to something that catches my eye. Real Simple is a welcome alternative to other women's magazines that focus on giving yourself multiple orgasms or figuring out your personality based on astrological signs. If you are interested in browsing through a magazine that gives personal stories, features useful products, provides yummy recipes for nights when you have guests over (or have the time to cook a special meal), and is aesthetically pleasing to the eye this magazine is for you.Saturday, July 27, 2013
Ranger Rick Jr
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