Links à la Mode: The IFB Weekly Roundup
on Nov 20, 2009 in Uncategorized Food for Thought Edited by Ashe Mischief This is my first time editing since I wrote Good Cop/Bad Cop: Participating in Links a la Mode. Thank you all so much for making this my most pleasurable experience in editing yet! I’m not sure if it’s bec...

Music man
on Nov 19, 2009 in Uncategorized Some music for you to enjoy! The track list: Carries On – Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros Syvlia – The Antlers Intro – The XX Dear God – Monsters of Folk Bookends – Simon & Garfunkel Pitseleh – Elliot Smit...

Witerary Wednesdays: History of Love
on Nov 18, 2009 in Uncategorized Nicole Krauss’s novel History of Love is an anatomy of loneliness, and a compendium of hope. Leo Gursky is an invisible man, elderly and despairing. His son, a famous writer, knows nothing of his existence, much to Gursky’s desolation. He has wor...

Zine Scene: 5 great online fashion mags
on Nov 17, 2009 in Uncategorized 2009 has been a tough year for the magazine industry. Circulation is downat many major publications, advertisers are jumping ship, several titles have been cut loose, and heads have been rolling at Condé Nast. Magazines are by no means ‘over&#...

Role model of the week: Carmen Rodi
on Nov 16, 2009 in Uncategorized When we were younger there were our older sisters, Disney stars and fairytale princesses. But who do we look up to now that we’ve grown up? Eschewing the drugged-out celebrities and philandering politicians, each week we seek someone who inspir...

Sunday Segues
on Nov 15, 2009 in Uncategorized When you think about it, the noughties has been a decade of “cute”: cute popstars, cute fashions (babydoll dresses, for example) and, of course, cute internet memes. Vanity Fair explores this phenomenon. I’m super-paranoid that one...

Recently in real life: Berlin
on Nov 13, 2009 in Uncategorized So, why was I in Berlin? To do this story on the 20th anniversary on the fall of the Berlin wall. Click that link, watch the video, hear my voice! Most of my time was spent working – recording, interviewing. The best part was working with my...

Witerary Wednesdays: The Time Traveller’s Wife
on Nov 11, 2009 in Uncategorized There are some books that I just resist reading. No matter how many people tell me, “Oh, you’ll love it, you’ve got to read it!” I always find some excuse. When it comes down to it, I’m probably just being stubborn becau...

A reminder
on Nov 10, 2009 in Uncategorized may my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living whatever they sing is better than to know and if men should not hear them men are old may my mind stroll about hungry and fearless and thirsty and supple and even if it’s...

Interview with musician, Laura Imbruglia
on Nov 9, 2009 in Uncategorized Indie rock musician Laura Imbruglia charmed us with her laundry fantasies with her single My Dream of  A Magical Washing Machine and introduced us to her ‘crying disease’ and witty word-play with her self-titled debut album of 2006. Sinc...