• Issue Archive for the Week of
  • Mar 11 - 24, 2009
  • Vol. 7, No. 5

Books

Music

  • Swan Lake

    Enemy Mine (Jagjaguwar)
  • The Mayfair Set

    “Already Warm,” 7” single (Captured Tracks)

Film

  • Watchmen

    Directed by Zack Snyder
  • Fados

    Directed by Carlos Saura
  • Tokyo Sonata

    Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
  • Tokyo!

    Directed by Leos Carax, Michel Gondry and Bong Joon-Ho
  • 12

    Directed by Nikita Mikhalkov
  • Megane

    Directed by Naoko Ogigami

Food & Drink

  • Hungry, Hungry Hippo

    Ten Vong's Fat Hippo arrives just in time for recessionary belt-tightening (and dining room belt-loosening).
  • The Third Annual Bar Awards

    Now in their third glorious, heavily researched year, The L Magazine’s Bar Awards celebrate excellence in facilitating an activity performed just as efficiently, far more cheaply, and arguably more safely in the comfort of one’s own home.
  • Vengeance Is Ours

    Sweet Revenge continues the gentle gentrification of Bed-Stuy.

Horoscope

Art

Theater

  • The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd

    D.H. Lawrence’s austere tale of marital angst was probably modern at the time of its writing, but in this uninspired production it can't escape affair play cliché.
  • Red-Haired Thomas

    What could have been an original critique of American democracy blindly fetishizing it instead.
  • Love/Stories (or But You Will Get Used To It)

    Self-conscious quirks can't replace narrative, something Itamar Moses unwittingly illustrates in these short plays about mumblecore romance, Itamar Moses, and what a hard-working playwright he is.

Columns

Special

Blogs


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