So look, your corner bodega might not have every variety of artisanal potato chip, and it might not have the latest issue of n+1 on the magazine rack, but damn it you love it anyway. You love its cats, its infinite shelves of Goya products, and you love its dirt-cheap forties. Well, stop taking your bodega for granted and tell us why it's the best bodega in the city: write a short description (100-400 words), take a photo (optional, and camera phones are fine) and send it to bodega@thelmagazine.com.

Entries will be judged by our distinguished editorial team of Bodega connoisseurs/the office cat.

Califone just released their sixth album All My Friends Are Funeral Singers earlier this month, which is also the score of a new feature film by band member Tim Rutili. The movie and the band will be playing at a special L Magazine reader party ((that's right, we're throwing you a party!) and multimedia extravaganza tonight a 92Y Tribeca (200 Hudson St at Canal St). Click here to get a special L Mag ticket discount, doors open at 9pm with free Sam Adams for the first fifty folks between 9-10pm. In the meantime, here's a music video wrapped in a movie trailer to give you an idea of what you're in for:

Yeah, it's true, me and my kind have an earlier, better Thanksgiving than you. Ours is to commemorate the time Hoser Jesus skated across an unfrozen lake and scored a goal on Hoser Satan. Basically, it's pretty much like this very special Ellen Page Canadian Thanksgiving video. Enjoy.

(My wife tells the story of being at the Blessing of the Animals in 2001, less than a month after 9/11, when they blessed all kinds of rescue dogs who'd been working at the WTC site. The church was packed and there wasn't a dry eye in the place.)

This is a very special day for me, so I want you all to be nice: it's the beginning of the professional ice hockey season. Look, it's hard being a Canadian in America—between my confusion over health insurance and being legally prohibited from talking to American women, sometimes I wonder why I even bother. So please respect my irrational love of watching giant men mince around on ice chasing a hard, round little object, even if it's just for today.

And here's a video that I watch occasionally when I'm particularly homesick. It's Stompin' Tom Connors (the Canadian Johnny Cash/Woody Guthrie) singing "The Hockey Song." (Go Leafs go!)

Today is Park(ing) Day in New York and around the world, which means that parking spaces throughout the city will be taken over by local community groups and organizations and used as public parks and activity spaces, and most frequently covered in sod to make the park-parking space analogy all the more explicit. Click here for a map of all the Park(ing) spaces throughout the city today, and here's a taste of what last year looked like:

Before each session, rowers and paddlers are given an introduction, and are required to wear lifejackets and sign waivers. It's all free (and totally safe, really), and offers a breathtaking new way of looking at New York City. Click here for more information, and then head down to Dumbo Cove on August 22 (11-3pm) and August 29 (2-6pm).

(photo by Nadia Chaudhury)