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Archive for November, 2007

Holiday

by Annie Walker

( Family and Food )

It was only the darkened house that could contain her

by Ruben Mancillas

( Desire and Words )

Let it be known that competition for these West Coast spots is fierce. Our editor throws some dates out there and a free for all often ensues. I boxed out my fellow TGW’ers like Carlos Boozer (still averaging a smooth 24 and 11 at 55% from the field, thanks for asking) under the boards to […]

The Apple of My Eye

by Lisa Parrish

After I moved to Los Angeles last spring, I soon learned that people don’t communicate here quite like they do in Washington D.C. I’m not talking about think-tank dissertations, multi-footnote policy papers or the monotone dronings of C-Span speeches. I’m talking about text messages.
In D.C., people picked up the phone and called each other. Here, […]

Ex-Patsy

by Bryan Waterman

( Art and Death and Out & About and Sounds )

A couple years ago, at a dinner party in the East Village, a friend told me he was looking for a bass player for his band, a Patsy Cline covers outfit with a German lead singer. They were hoping to pull together a line-up for Performa 05, a big performance art biennial that fall. They’d […]

Help

by Stella

I was all set to write my blog about something else, when I ended up spending 90 minutes on the phone with a friend who is breaking down mentally, emotionally and physically. This is not the first time you have heard of this friend.
So, it’s making me think about how we help each other, or […]