Here are three of the famous magazines that are utilized by the public with descriptions about its features and contents.

FHM Magazine

This magazine is categorized as a men’s lifestyle magazine that is primarily based on fashion. It releases an issue on a monthly basis with different features every month. It is very famous for its annual “100 Sexiest Women of the World” which is usually anticipated by most fans. Some of the individuals that topped the list were Megan Fox and Keira Knightly. Its covers include famous women that pose in choreographed positions that entice the target market. It also includes new trends in fashion and what’s in and out. It also includes a steamy centerfold of a famous female sexy icon. It circulation just like Time magazine is widespread and its well-taken by the public.

Forbes Magazine

This magazine is in print biweekly and is famous for its news regarding finance and business, which included many matters about stocks and the market. It includes tips on how businesses should be run and ways on improving management skills regarding business. This is also the magazine wherein giants in business are given a chance to take the spot light of being able to share their knowledge about things that will be useful to amateurs. There are a lot of things included in the magazine that is related to business but the most common feature of the magazine that people look forward to, is their rundown of different influential people. These include billionaires, richest female and male celebrities and sexiest female and male celebrities, which are part of the entertainment section. It also features many developments in technology that is of great use most especially in business. It also publishes global news that is affecting the people and the market.

Time Magazine

This type of magazine is categorized as a newsmagazine that includes current events in its publications. It emphasizes on major events that occur anywhere in the globe that is worthy to be included in the pack. Every week, it releases an issue with articles from different writers. It also includes the latest in arts and entertainment that includes interviews with celebrities and people that are famous in the field of entertainment. It also includes many essays about the current events that state many opinions of people. The covers of the magazine are usually explosive discoveries and infamous stories that are of great interest from the public. There are also times wherein the cover is a popular person that had great contributions to the people either in the world of sports, politics, arts and entertainment. Every year it places a “Person of the Year” on its cover, which includes people that have influenced a lot of people in that year. The magazine also gives the public a chance to send questions they want to ask a certain figure and are carefully chosen which questions to publish in the magazine. The magazine does not only include events that occur recently but also important information that the public needs to know regarding health and the environment. There can be articles that include tips for a better living or stories of individuals that are related to the topic. Time magazine has increased its circulation from being published only in the US to its own publications and distribution in Europe, Asia and in the South Pacific.

That’s what I always say.

Picture this, you visit a doctor or a dentist, and you know that you have to wait in a queue because of the other patients ahead of you, right? So you wait… and it’s just sooo boring!! You look around for something better to do like play basketball or golf, but you can’t do that inside the clinic! It’s impossible! The nurse will throw you out of the clinic and there goes the dental appointment that you have been waiting for, for 3 weeks (so you have to endure that toothache for another week or so). Bad ending, right?

So, what’s the next best thing?

Thank god there’s Sports Illustrated Magazine on the coffee table! This little saviour can take you away to your basketball dreams or golf dreams and make the waiting bearable albeit boring.

In every nook and cranny, a magazine would always come in handy, ready to assist you in times of boredom. Just check out the piles and piles of magazines sprawled out on waiting lounges of hotels, airports, offices, clinics, and yes even in your own living rooms. Now why do think that is so? Because magazines just entertain you! No matter what the topic is.

There are a lot of magazines out there that cater to different interests. We have sport magazines, showbiz magazines, business magazines, magazines for the elderly, magazines for kids. We have magazines about technology and gadgets, and we have magazines about antiques. We have magazines for men and magazines for women and of course magazines about the third sex.

The list is endless and it goes on and on… magazines about aliens and magazines about normal pets, magazines about home, and family, and religion, and whew… There’s just too much of them.

We even have concepts like “E-zine” or online magazines that can be found on the internet. We have TV shows that are patterned after magazines thus the concept of Mag-TV or magazine TV!

According to research, the term magazine came from the Arabic word “makazin” which means a storehouse. And magazines are just that, storehouses of knowledge, news, and information. It does not matter if you are reading a “worm lovers” magazine, or something more boring like a magazine about “ingrown toe nails”, what is important is once you open and skim through this “storehouse” you have learned and discovered something, even if that something you discovered is just to pass the time.

After all this ballyhoo about magazines, one thought remains certain. Magazines entertain you and more often than not, they are free! Yes, if you do not subscribe to them, you can just scan through them in your neighbour’s house, or your family doctor’s clinic. Magazines are also here to stay, they may change their form, from newsprint to glossy paper, from paper to web page or TV shows, but the idea remains the same.

Everyone, at one point or another has been saved by being thrown out from the clinic because of the lowly magazine on the coffee table. Now that’s entertainment!