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Jul 30 - Aug 12, 2008
Vol. 6, No. 15

Books

Atmospheric Disturbances

Rivka Galchen ? FSG ? Available now
- by Ben Kupstas

Snuff

Chuck Palahniuk ? Doubleday ? Available now
- by Becky Ferreira

Music

Scarlett Johansson

Anywhere I Lay My Head
- by Mark Asch

J-Live

Then What Happened?
- by Benjamin H. Sutton

Popscene

Spiritualized

Songs in A&E
- by John S.W. MacDonald

Film

When Did You Last See Your Father?

Directed by Anand Tucker
- by Benjamin H. Sutton

Mongol

Directed by Sergei Bodrov
- by Mark Asch

Beaten Down, Taken Out

Talking with Take Out director Sean Baker
- by S. James Snyder

Operation Filmmaker

Directed by Nina Davenport
- by Mark Asch

You Don't Mess With the Zohan

Directed by Dennis Dugan
- by Steve Bloom

The President's Analyst (1967)

Directed by: Theodore J. Flicker
- by Henry Stewart

The Mother of Tears

Directed by Dario Argento
- by Benjamin Strong

Mandingo (1975)

Directed by Richard Fleischer
- by Nicolas Rapold

The Wedding Director

Directed by Marco Bellocchio
- by Michael Joshua Rowin

Food & Drink

Do You Ever ?Flair? Bartend?
- by Ryan Vlastelica

Habitat-Forming
- by Edith Zimmerman

Ghenet While the Getting?s Good
- by Jeff Harris

Horoscope

Horoscope
- by Läps Trinity

Art

New York Public Library

Eminent Domain
- by Benjamin Sutton

Theater

Looking Ahead to the Tonys
- by Gwen Orel

The Actor?s Nightmare and The Real Inspector Hound
- by Mary Block

Columns

Are You Desperate for a Hybrid?
- by Adam Bonislawski

Recession Special: Part Deux

How to Spend that Stimulus Check
- by Laurel Pinson

Living Local in the Summertime

Finding the Good Life Right Next Door
- by Amanda Park Taylor

Olafur Eliasson at MoMA and PS1
- by Paddy Johnson

Smokin? It. Strokin? It.
- by Audrey Ference

Special

My Weekend on the Street

Searching for Shelter in NYC
- by Jessica Hall

Riding Against the Tracks

How Artists and Activists Fight for Diversity in Fort Greene
- by Luke Whyte

Blogs

Lightning Strikes in Mysterious Ways
- by Edith

Upgrades Department: Electric Mascara
- by Edith

Matt Levy's Lost in History: Party for Your Right to Ride
- by Mark

And Now, My Fellow Americans, George Krzewski On Behalf of Potential New National Anthem #5
- by Mark

Tonight, Celebrate (Wrong Word?) the The Tompkins Square Park Riot, Which Happened 20 Years Ago Tomorrow
- by Mark

Serie noire, tonight at Film Forum
- by Mark

Whiter Shades of Pale: A Game
- by Edith

Potential New National Anthem #9
- by Mark

Video of the Day
- by Mark

Potential New National Anthem #7 (In Which L Mag Editor-in-Chief Jonny Diamond is Confused About the Point of All This)
- by Jonny

Breaking: Rififi Closing, For Real This Time
- by Edith

Recommended!
- by Edith Zimmerman

Movies Are the New Pornography
- by Mark

Potential New National Anthem #2
- by Mark

Bedtime Story: An Ikea Timeline
- by Edith

Out Now and Online Here at Our No Longer Broken Website: The L Magazine's Best of New York Issue
- by Mark

One More Toy
- by Edith

The Long-view Historical Case for Potential New National Anthem #8
- by Mark

Best Rock and Roll Falling Down of Forever
- by Jonny

What I'm ___ing Now
- by Edith Zimmerman

Out Now: The L Magazine's Summer Fiction Issue
- by Mark

Again with the New National Anthems
- by Mark

Sex Advice from a Goose: Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Old Oak Tree
- by Mark

FIRSSTTTTT!!!1!1!
- by Edith

The 10 Best Pups Wearing Faux Fur
- by Edith

We're Not Working!
- by Mark

Street Stories NYC: "In 2000 I biked across the country to raise money for Alzheimer’s"
- by Edith

A Children's Treasury of Fun Recent Articles About China
- by Mark

Oh God: "In Brooklyn... bedbugs have surged more than 1,900% since 2004"
- by Edith

Recommended!
- by Edith

Work Week Forecast: Fun with a Chance of Smiles
- by Edith

Visual Discrepancy Gold Medal
- by Edith Zimmerman

The Animation Show
- by Mark

Auteur Theories
- by Jesse

Olympic Counterprogramming
- by Mark

Crap Water: "It's Our Fountain of Youth"
- by Edith Zimmerman

Tonight's Summerscreen: Blue Velvet
- by Mark

Guys, I Am Seriously Disappointed In All of You, Because I Saw The Dark Knight This Weekend and It Is Some Bullshit, Real Talk.
- by Mark

Very Polite Monster Spotted
- by Jonny

Rather Than Go Tubing Or Enjoying Wine and Cheese This Weekend, I Sat in a Dark Room and Listened to Elliott Gould Talk Some
- by Mark

Quote of the Day
- by Mark

Potential New Anthem #10
- by Mark

The New Yorker Reader: "Clara," by Roberto Bolaño
- by Mark

Breaking News: Young Hearts to Be Free, Tonight
- by Mark

This Weekend We Lost the Only Person Probably in History Who Could Wear This Vest
- by Mark

Saturday's Monster is Full of Grace
- by Edith

The 10 Greatest Ice Cube Trays
- by Edith

The New Yorker Reader: "The Dinner Party", by Joshua Ferris
- by Mark

Sunday's arguably kinda sad picture of the day.
- by Mark

Dying Polar Bear Rug
- by Edith

What I'm ____ing Now: Vital Juice Daily
- by Edith

Megalodon: One More Time, Just for Fun
- by Edith

Potential New National Anthem #4
- by Mark

Tonight's Summerscreen: 28 Days Later...
- by Mark

The Goulden Age
- by Mark

The 10 Creepiest Toys
- by Edith

Eight Eight Oh Eight
- by Edith

What I'm ___ing Now
- by Edith

Profit motive and the whispering wind, a film by John Gianvito, at Anthology Film Archives
- by Mark

10 Things That Should Be Olympic Events
- by Edith

At Last, a New National Anthem These Beleaugered United States
- by Mark

Hey You! Boycott the ‘Lympics!
- by Jonny

Will You Freak Out in an Emergency?
- by Edith

My Last Post
- by Edith

Mike Conklin Approved This Message for Potential New National Anthem #6
- by Mark

Wish List: Slipper Genie
- by Edith

Street Stories NYC: "No one was paying attention so I flipped over a cab"
- by Edith

You're Number One!
- by Edith

Hey, Lots More Great and Often Obscure Classical Japanese Movies
- by Mark

Saturday's Short Story of the Day
- by Edith

Dog Day Evenings
- by Mark

Let's Pick a New National Anthem, Together
- by Mark

Potential New National Anthem #3
- by Edith

Matt Levy's Lost in History: Exit Poll Cocktail Toll
- by Mark

Update on Your Chances of Being in the Same Room as Elliott Gould This Weekend
- by Mark

The City Sweet Tooth
- by Edith

Divorcees: "I'm Losing My Mind"
- by Edith

Manic Monday
- by Mark

Tonight: The L's Fiction Issue Reading
- by Mark

Music Bonanza to Benefit BARC
- by Edith

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