Articles Written By Rosecrans Baldwin
Rosecrans Baldwin co-founded TMN with publisher Andrew Womack in 1999. His latest book is Everything Now: Lessons From the City-State of Los Angeles. More information can be found at rosecransbaldwin.com.
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Listening
Mood Music for the Old-Fashioned Set
I have a soft spot for mood music, particularly songs that can be played quietly and help me focus on work instead of on the sounds of two construction projects...
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The Non-Expert
The Contest for Total Idioms
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we get sick of our colloquial phrases and thus a contest is born: Invent a bon mot for everlasting fame.
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Gallery
Surreal Eden
Margaret Hooks tells the story of Edward James: wealthy British surrealist-art benefactor turned rural Mexican architect, demi-god and dreamer.
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Listening
The One Song That Defines Life, for a Week
Masters of the musical universe who put songs in singers’ mouths, I am just sick about this track—thank you for this artist, this song! My window is open and...
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Listening
Music Inspires Memories
Four short memories of youth inspired by music randomly selected from the Hype Machine’s most popular tracks, January 10, 2007: “Black Wave, Bad Vibrations,” the Arcade Fire I left for college...
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Gallery
Above Paris
Here we see the polygonal French capital, between 1950 and 1972, as preserved from a single-engine army plane. Its pilot, Roger Henrard, was a businessman and an artist, and his bird’s-eye pictures of Paris, a city that can seem heavily barricaded and crammed together from the sidewalk, reveal the air pockets in its planning.
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Listening
Humbug
The holidays are when someone died. Or a grandfather got worse instead of better in the hospital, or a friend drank too much and had a car accident while driving...
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Gallery
Quiet As Kept
Robert Pruitt’s butcher-paper drawings give us complex characters, full of personality but limited in how much they share. It’s art as tease, pose, and challenge. Refreshingly, it’s also very engaging.
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Reading
Book Digest: November 27, 2006
By Christmas Eve, I never feel like I’ve bought enough. The arms race catches up with me, it tugs at my anxiety and my wallet. At some point on...
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Reader Letters
Reader(s) Response
Dear writers, I’m so enjoying your love and devotion to Star Jones. I hope your love for her is not ending. Now you posted something insightful regarding people with...
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Gallery
On the Street
Between 1980 and 1990, the Village Voice ran photographer Amy Arbus’s “On the Street” photo column, a page documenting downtown’s most vibrant, creative dressers and personalities, and here are its greatest hits.
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Gallery
We the People of the United States
Sam Fink’s beautifully illustrated Constitution of the United States of America reminds us of what is good and true about our country and what binds us together, no matter what the pundits or politicians say.