Allscript Magazines

To be honest, I am not much of a magazine reader. However, my husband recently bought this hipster-​looking magazine rack to complete our living area, and it just looks weird with my Thug Kitchen cookbook* in one of the slots. A search on the trusty Unilocal app brought me to my neighbourhood hipster newsstand, Allscript.
As mentioned in previous reviews, this newsstand not only has your trashy gossip ‘zines, but also includes classy shit like Kinfolk, British Vogue, and One Day Journal**, to name a few. If I had to choose my favourite magazine to read, it’d be Vanity Fair, but for some reason I couldn’t find it here.
I ended up going for 2 local publications and 1 American one– August Man, Vulture, and Real Simple, respectively. These three set me back about $ 37, yowwwch! Tzeko M’s mention of 10% off for members is starting to sound good right about now.
My only complaint is that not all of their publications are up to date; I even saw a few issues that dated back 3 – 4 months. If they could also stock Vanity Fair, I might consider upping to 4.5 stars!
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*If you’ve never heard of Thug Kitchen, we need to talk.
**What up, former CM Marcus L? :)

While I’ll give it to Books Actually for the best selection/​collection of books in Singapore, magazine wise, Allscript wins hands down!
They have a couple of outlets island-​wide but I frequent the one at Millenia Walk and I12 Katong the most simply because i work and stay at both areas. Allscript carries a wide selection of magazines, from any genre you can think of. And what impressed me the most is the wide selection of «Indie» magazines they stock. From The Gourmand, to Kinfolk, to Cereal mag to local-​based lifestyle magazine «Vulture». Even the much raved B-​Brand infobook that focuses on brands like AESOP, Ace Hotel worldwide, Le Labo and such.
The outlet in I12 Katong used to look a little messy but they have revamped and it looks much neater now with racks that display all the magazines and not put on the floor previously.
Purchase $ 50 and above and sign up as a member for free and get 10% off on your subsequent purchase (s). Not too bad of a deal if you still like reading from a physical book/​magazine (like i do) rather than downloading e-​copies straight to your ipads!

The selection these guys stock is ridiculously amazing! I happened to meet one of the managers once as they were restocking really early on, and discovered that they have a great love for the printed medium, and are constantly looking out for new and interesting titles to stock.
Through that chat, I also found out that they offer a subscription service to most of their catalogue — just speak to the staff! Also, I’ve requested that they call me every time this one food magazine is stocked — Lucky Peach is a little hard to fin on put shores — and they have not failed me yet!
The staff are pretty knowledgable of what’s in stock too, so just ask instead of digging around. It’s not like it’s a huge shop anyway… And then there’s the custom-​built display unit that looks like… I don’t really know what it looks like. It’s just cool. You need to see it for yourself. And when you’re there, support a local biz and pick up a mag, why doncha?

While there is a fair selection of reading materials that one can pick up at any convenience store or supermarket, somedays, there is just a particular foreign magazine you might wanna check out. Chances are, all script might have it or can offer you some help if you know what kind of magazine you can looking for. All script specialise in foreign magazines more than local publications, although they do offer some local titles. Chances of picking an interesting magazine is rather high at all script and I was lucky to have met the manager who shared his wealth of knowledge about magazines to fit my interests and hobbies.
I rather enjoy the wall ‘collage’ of magazines, though it could be mind-​boggling and visually disorienting. But it gave me the sense that these people were serious about their reads. Do check it out for the experience and pick up a new magazine that piques your interest.