Last Exit Magazine
Archive
July 2009
The Desert
A photographic trek into the unmapped spaces on the edges of suburbia.
[published: July 30, 2009]
Pointing in the Same Direction
Remembering our incomprehensible dream of going to the moon.
[published: July 30, 2009]
You Are Where You Eat
Nothing reveals the character of a place like talking to its farmers, shopping at its farm stands and sifting through the recipes its people dreamed up before everything was available everywhere.
[published: July 30, 2009]
The Failed Explorer Who Founded New York
Henry Hudson’s wife couldn’t even manage to get a statue erected in his honor after he was murdered by his crew. But today, New York state is sparing no expense to mark the 400th anniversary of his most important discovery.
[published: July 30, 2009]
Mystery, Alaska
In 1989, I found my mom a job in the classifieds and we moved to Massachusetts. Sixteen years later, she left there for Alaska, where she had never been before. I have never asked her why. Now I do.
[published: July 29, 2009]
Urban Methology
This week only, the perfect date night: meth lab and a movie
[published: July 29, 2009]
Out of Sight, Out of Mind
One of the few independent photographers in Baghdad during the start of the Iraq War reflects on what it means to glimpse the battlefield on one’s own terms.
[published: July 01, 2009]
We Say Tomato
Heirloom tomatoes are just one of the ways that Americans have recently begun to declare their gastro-independence from the industrialized food state.
[published: July 01, 2009]
New York’s Forgotten Revolutionary
Why at 5 a.m. every July 4th, I visit the lost grave of Horatio Gates, the unknown general who won the most important battle in the American Revolution.
[published: July 01, 2009]
You Are Not Alone
This summer go out and watch yourself watching other people watch you watching other people watching you at a new survey of Dan Graham’s work currently on view at the Whitney.
[published: July 01, 2009]
Free Spirits
Brooklyn’s Madagascar Institute art collective celebrated their 10th anniversary by reenacting a pivotal naval battle in Prospect Park. In paddle boats.
[published: July 01, 2009]
Putting the Free into Freedom
Why Nick Rosen, the founder of the off-grid.net site, is coming to America in his search for the perfect off-grid existence.
[published: July 01, 2009]
Futile Resistance?
As President Obama orders 17,000 additional troops in Afghanistan, the anti-war movement finds itself trying to mobilize against one of its own. It won’t be easy.
[published: July 01, 2009]
- #1 Rock 'n Real Estate
- #2 Farm/Land
- #3 Showbiz
- #4 Violence & Conflict
- #5 Islands
- #6 Animals
- #7 The Subterraneans
- #8 After the Deluge
- #9 Boredom
- #10 Fear and Loathing
- #11 Medicine
- #12 Obsession
- #13 Migration
- #14 Revolution
- #15 Hidden In Plain Sight
- #16 Independence
- #17 Exploration
- #18 Education
- #19 Walls and Borders