Best newsstand

Did you bring a taste for foreign news back from a semester abroad? Seeking home-design photographs for inspiration on how to decorate your new digs? Need every celebrity-gossip columnist's take on Bennifer's future? Or perhaps you enjoy audacious British magazines that combine cutting-edge car coverage with a Maxim-like sensibility? With 150-plus newspapers (more than half of them foreign) and thousands of magazines in stock, Out of Town News is the place to purchase domestic and international periodicals. Located next to Harvard Square's "Pit," it's also a sheltered, interesting spot to meet that friend who's perpetually running late.

Out of Town News, 0 Harvard Square, Cambridge, (617) 354-7777.