The L Magazine

This Week's Crossword Puzzle

• by Mark

The 60s: The Movies

• by Mark

All's Well that Ends Well, If it Means We Can Learn Some Secrets

• by Sharon

Street Stories NYC: "June 28, 1963, when I got to Parris Island."

• by Mark

Rahm Emmanuel is a Graceful Baddass

• by Sharon

TGIF: Things to Stare At That Will Make Your Heart Stop

• by Sharon

Norman Mailer's FBI File: Somehow A Less Exciting Demonstration of Postwar America As Time of Upheaval and Godly Conspiracies Than, Well, Norman Mailer

• by Mark

The New Yorker Reader: "Lostronaut," by Jonathan Lethem

• by Mark

Corresponding with Ben Greenman

• by Mark

John Leonard Died

• by Mark

New Deals: That Pesky Recession Thing

• by Sharon

Top 5 Bizarre and Often Contradictory Criticisms of Quantum of Solace, In Ascending Order of Weirdness, and With Accompanying Questions

• by Jesse

Free Shepard Fairey Commemorative Obama Sticker

• by Sharon

Recommended: Sympathy for the Kettle, Roebling Tea Room

• by Sharon

The Times Explains Hemlines, Laxatives, Suicide and MILFs

• by Sharon

Someone Else Made This So That You Don't Have To: Michelle and Barack Ponytail Holders

• by Sharon

So.

• by Mark

Celebrate Manny Farber's Excellent Taste in Movies by Watching Excellent Movies, Yes?

• by Mark

Fake, Free, Wonderful News

• by Sharon

Ticket Alert: Andrew Bird at Carnegie Hall

• by Sharon

Look Who's Up from the Underground, Finally...

• by Mark

Robert Pattinson Proposed to Kristen Stewart On the Twilight Set

• by Sharon

Ryan Adams Hearts Oasis

• by Sharon

But If It Wasn't for the Bronx...

• by Mark

The Greatest Depression = Bigger, Better Pre-Holiday Sales Starting Now

• by Sharon

Oh, That Gray Lady

• by Sharon

Quote of the Day

• by Mark

Recommended Reading: The President's Daughter

• by Sharon

Recession-Savvy: Hipster Haircuts

• by Sharon

Trend Spotting: The Victory Dress

• by Sharon

Lit Gossip: Newt Gingrich, Self-Help Author

• by Sharon

We Are But Classless Hoboes, Rolling in the Mud of the Disrespectful

• by Sharon

Everyone's An Author: That Nate Silver!

• by Sharon

Incoming: Advice for Malia and Sasha

• by Sharon

Put On Your Reeboks, Man...

• by Mark

So What's Going to Be More Crowded Tonight?

• by Mark

Sunday Video of the Day: "Our Reaction When David A. Lost"

• by Sharon

Not Only, But Also: An Evening with Spring Awakening

• by Sharon

Thursday List: Springtime White House Terrors, Get Off the Lawn

• by Sharon

John Mayer's O-Face Is Being Usurped!

• by Sharon

Your Happy National Hangover Weekend

• by Mark

Art Catch: Mary Heilmann and Elizabeth Peyton

• by Sharon

Dead Authors Make Publicity Tours Complicated, So We're Having to Work Around That a Bit

• by Mark

The Recession is Punishing You on Black Friday

• by Sharon

So What Else Is News?

• by Mark

Post-Apocalyptic Pet Fashion

• by Sharon

The Freakout Will Really Begin

• by Sharon

Everyone's An Author: Sarah Silverman's Book of "Comedic Essays"

• by Sharon

Street Stories NYC: "You know what? I’d do it again."

• by Mark

New Yorker Profile of Thomas Friedman Actually About Malcolm Gladwell

• by Mark

Daily Listings Picks: Monday

• by Sharon

Newsflash: Print Isn't Dead (For One Whole Day!)

• by Sharon

Saturday's Trippy Video of the Day

• by Mark

This Lady Is Never Going Away

• by Sharon

America, at Last, the Future Is Here

• by Mark

Send Us Your Hottest Bush-Obama Fanfic

• by Mark

Like Dancing With the Stars, But With Book Carts

• by Sharon

Out Now: The L Magazine's Comix Issue

• by Mark

Q: Mark — Seeing As How You've Mentioned All This Movie Stuff That's Going on This Weekend — What About the New Bond Movie? A:

• by Mark

So Long and Thanks for All the Slasher Movies

• by Mark

What Are We Gonna Do Now?

• by Mark

Books Are the Perfect Holiday Gift: Oh Good Christ Please Buy Them

• by Sharon

Sunday Video of the Day: Paramore's 'Decode'

• by Sharon

Not Only, But Also: The Princess is in Another Castle

• by Sharon

Overpriced Vintage Electronics at Your Local Urban

• by Sharon

Who Is More Depressed: Jodi Kantor or Barack Obama

• by Sharon

The Aftermath: Your Election Night Revelry Recaps

• by Sharon

Dan Rather is Getting Something for His Money

• by Sharon

Art Catch: Kehinde Wiley and Barkley L. Hendricks

• by Sharon

The End of Polaroids

• by Sharon

At the Nickelodeon

• by Mark

Wild Boys

• by Mark

Payment in Spiders

• by Sharon

Dailies Vs. Alt-weeklies, According to Dan Savage

• by Sharon

Stuff I'm Reading: Revolutionary Road, by Richard Yates

• by Mark

Not Only, But Also: Yeasayer and Ponytail at NYU

• by Sharon

The New Yorker Reader: "Leopard," by Wells Tower

• by Mark

The City Sweet Tooth: Wonder-Bar

• by Mark

Small is Beautiful

Conor Oberst Goes Solo, and It Is Good

• by Mike Conklin

Oneida

Preteen Weaponry (Jagjaguwar)

• by Jeff Klingman

Nas

Untitled (Def Jam)

• by Benjamin Sutton

Oxford Collapse

BITS (Sub Pop)

• by Lauren Beck

Hott Tickets!

• by Mike Conklin

Dr. Dog

Fate (Park the Van)

• by Mike Conklin

Elegy

Directed by Isabel Coixet

• by Cullen Gallagher

Patti Smith: Dream of Life

Directed by Steven Sebring

• by Benjamin Sutton

Hell Ride

Directed by Larry Bishop

• by Benjamin Sutton

Henry Poole Is Here

Directed by Mark Pellington

• by Henry Stewart

Pros vs. Joes

Tropic Thunder’s Kings of Comedy and Pineapple Express’s Everydudes

• by Michael Joshua Rowin

Lions in Winter

Chabrol’s A Girl Cut in Two and Rohmer’s The Romance of Astrea and Celdon

• by Benjamin Strong

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Directed by Woody Allen

• by Nicolas Rapold

What Do You Think of the Waterfalls Exhibit?

• by Ryan Vlastelica

In a Jiffy

• by Cait Weiss

“Can I Get Some More Bread?”

• by Jeff Harris

New York City Fringe Festival

August 8-24, 2008

• by Mary Block

Bouffon Glass Menajoree

The Brick Theater, 575 Metropolitan Ave, Brooklyn

• by Dan Callahan

Ask for a Convertible

by Danit Brown • Pantheon • Available now

• by Eryn Loeb

All About Lulu

by Jonathan Evison • Soft Skull Press/Counterpoint • Available now

• by Christine Femia

Horoscope

• by Läps Trinity

What’s the Best Place for Late Night Eats?

• by Marian Lorraine

Biking for the Right to Bike

Police Brutality and the Critical Mass Backlash

• by Amanda Park Taylor

The Dog Days

• by Paddy Johnson

Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Old Oak Tree

• by Audrey Ference

Welcome, Newbies

The Best (and Worst) Store Openings of the Last Year

• by Laurel Pinson

The Best of New York City

The Heart of the Heart of the City

Man Walks Along Famous Street, Writes Story About It

• by Adam Bonislawski