Issues Magazine Store

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Periodicals are a passion of mine. I rarely subscribe to any print publications, but I’ve always been drawn to magazine/​newspaper racks since I was a little boy.
Just before leaving Houston, I made it over to Issues and managed to spend 2 hours flipping through magazines on subjects ranging from Print, Music, Architecture, British Royals Gossip and Latin American News…
I can’t stress how incredible this place is and I see myself going back here every visit I make to H-​Town

Having moved to Houston from NYC a couple of years ago, I struggled trying to find magazines here that I found regularly back at home. When I was introduced to this place, it totally saved me from my frustration. The staff is very helpful and the selection is great! Parking kind of sucks but whatever… if that’s all that I have to worry about to find what I’m looking for… that’s no big deal.

Whenever I visit Houston, I try to stop by Issues Magazine Store in the Montrose area. Very few newsstands like this anymore. Good selection of foreign periodicals from Spain, UK, Germany, and France. WIDE variety of titles here — lots in the fashion area and a bunch of literary journals. Parking can be kinda difficult at times, however.

I really wish I had the patience to deal with the traffic on Shepherd because I loved this store when I lived in the area. I still do love it theoretically and try to get here whenever I am in the area.
I recently had an opportunity to go back in my search for a UK magazine pertaining to one of my hobbies. I wasn’t disappointed. Well, I was disappointed, but not because of the store itself. They had the magazine, but it was the previous issue. I guess I’d hoped they would have this month’s issue before B&N and other local sellers since they specialize in this, but it is likely not in their hands.
Oh well. I still wish there was one of these near me… or that traffic on Shepherd wasn’t so ghastly in the afternoon so I could go there easily.

There are not many of these stores around any more and that is truly sad. I love this place. They have almost every magazine you could want and if they dont they are happy to order you whatever it is that your looking for. There is nothing bad i can say about this place. I wish more of these stores existed here in the city.

I had a period of my life when I thought I wanted to work in magazines. It was good and bad that Issues exists. Good, because I was able to get a crapload of magazines, ranging from local (My Table) to political (Foreign Affairs) to hip (Adbusters) to culinary (Chocolatier) to artsy (some really random hobbies…) to foreign (in languages I can’t understand – so every language). It was also bad because I now have this big box of culinary magazines, travel magazines, architecture magazines, British fashion magazines, and men’s magazines, which I can’t bring myself to recycle, because I spent a major monies on them and still haven’t read them. It’s kind of nice to know that I can get a perspective on Australia, by flipping through Australian Travel + Leisure and Donna Hay, or the male perspective, if I ever flip through the GQs and Playboys, but, oh, it’s a burden. How am I supposed to hop over to Issues to pick up The Paris Review when I haven’t even gone through the magazines in my box? (Note to self: put on to do list.)
Issues definitely has more magazines than Borders, especially in the foreign department (side note: I don’t like most women’s magazines, but I actually do like Eve, a British women’s mag). The not so awesome part is that, since its small size means that the guys at the cash register have a good view of you, and there are no chairs, you can’t exactly plop down to flip through a magazine. There isn’t much parking, but, on the few times I couldn’t park in the lot, I just parked along the side streets.
*Insert quotation marks around all the magazines. All that Shift-​ing is too much work.

Ahhh. Good ol’ Issues. Need a GQ in Russian that’s not 6 months old? How about the latest issue of Military Spouse”? Or maybe just the new Vogue? This place’s got the some-​what hard to find titles as well as the most popular titles in current rotation.
I was part of the Issues team for about 2 ½ years and learned, first hand, that this place caters to all different ages and lifestyles. The people behind the register are very helpful so don’t be afraid to ask any questions.
They always have week old Chronicles or New York Times and they’ll be happy to give you an old copy for free if you buy a mag or two. Don’t freak about the parking, there’s a nice two story parking lot right behind Issues (entrance by Colquitt St.).
The people running this place don’t mind you reading or flippin’ through magazines, so you should stop by and support a nice local gem. Oh and sorry, no coffee.

The parking really isn’t as bad as it might appear.(just ask) There are actually 17 regular spaces and 2 handicapped spaces.(yes, the entire lot for the building is fair game) Additionally, there is a 2-​story parking garage around the side of the building. Failing all of that, there is street parking on Colquitt.
Also, the Issues in Houston (holding it down since 2003) is of no relation to the Issues in Oakland, CA.(although that place looks pretty cool too)

I love Issues, they have the greatest most unusual magazines ever, and the store is usually quiet and they let you browse as long as you want. Everytime I go in I manage to forget everything and just enjoy the glossy fashion magazines from all over the world. The only detracter would be finding a place to park.

Great selection and laid back environment… I like to feel like I can take my time browsing. Nice selection of art & music magazines. Huge selection of fashion — some foreign.

I’m so glad this place exists. A great selection of obscure magazines.

Great magazine store with a wide selection of magazine… better ones than the bookstore.

A few years ago, I read an article in Nest (a now-​defunct quirky design magazine) that John Waters subscribed to over seven dailies and roughly 110 periodicals including: The New York Review of Books, Paper, and National Inquirer. While I wandered around Issues, I kept thinking about that article. I felt as if I were in his library, going through his eclectic assortment of magazines. Issues has a wide variety of obscure and mainstream magazines. This is a place to find not only People, GQ (Seth Rogan is on the cover?), and Vogue (from several different countries), but also magazines such as: Foam (for the modern-​day Gidget), JPG (pictures and blurbs from the readership put together for a issue theme), and Skyscraper (a REALLY well put together music zine).
The everything in between ran from surf and skate mags to book and poetry reviews to music to cooking for just about every type of diet. Oh, and did I mention art? Roughly thirty to forty different magazines
A note about the extremely large «so you REALLY REALLY wanna be a bride» magazine section, it was either mislabeled or derogatorily, yet humorously labeled simply: ANIMALS. The top shelf was devoted to «Dogs.» The second was «Cats.» The bottom shelf was divided between «Fish» and «Birds.»

i stopped in this store one day when i was living in the neighborhood. they literally have *every* magazine imaginable. if there’s one you can’t find elsewhere, please try this spot. the only downfalls involve, as others have said, little to no parking, as well as a somewhat cramped space without much seating. don’t go in here expecting borders or barnes and noble… but check it out if you’re into obscure mags and newspapers.

The home of two English majors is littered with anything having to do with the written word. We have two book cases that are double stacked on each shelf and three huge Tupperware containers (the ones that you can hide inside of for a crazy game of hide and go seek.. .wait, I’m way too grown up and mature to have done that recently.. .must be thinking of someone else). This is not including all the books I’ve unloaded on my poor, unsuspecting parents throughout college.
While I am more of a book nerd, my husband loves, loves, loves magazines. It is ridiculous. And he never throws them away. And since his hobbies aren’t that mainstream in the US (watch and pen collecting), there isn’t a huge variety in our magazine collection.
But thanks to Unilocal,we heard about Issues and decided to check it out. They had three other magazines that aren’t easy to find in other bookstores that made my hubby pretty happy. Granted, any European magazine is marked up beyond belief, we actually didn’t pay an arm and a leg for our goodies.
I did also so some European Vogues and other things that may be of interest for you fashionistas. My highlight was seeing a magazine on Alaska – and there was only one copy left. Take that Chicago (they had about 8 copies still on the shelves)!
The parking is a nightmare. As in, we thought we entered the correct way, figured out that we were in the bank’s ATM section and tried to exit – ended up scraping the entire front bumper. We ended up looping around and parking, and even then we didn’t end up in the correct parking lot! We took our chances and parked in the wrong lot (yes, there really are just three spots for that store) and walked over.
If you like rare magazines, this is a place to check out even with the hazards to getting to the actual store. Don’t be afraid to bug the kid with the iPod stuck in his ears – he’s surprisingly friendly and helpful.