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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Books
Me Write Book
It's not easy being the world's favorite frigid hominid, especially when your existential problems are worse than most college sophomores'. Me Write Book, It Bigfoot Memoir, by TMN favorite Graham...
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Books
A Time of Gifts
Patrick Leigh Fermor's A Time of Gifts puts you in an 18-year-old's hobnailed boots as he hikes across Europe in 1933 and takes scrupulous, even luscious, notes of his trip. I'm...
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Movies
Mondovino
Mondovino comes with a caveat: it's endless, meandering, filmed with herky-jerky handling (to the point of making me nauseated), obsessed with industry celebrities, and at times so confusing (including the...
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Books
Uncivil Seasons
When people ask me for a book recommendation, wanting a good page-turner, I love to push Michael Malone's Uncivil Seasons. It's the opening segment in his Justin and Cuddy trilogy...
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The Non-Expert
What Your Christmas Tree Says About You
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we address the great American class divider: Are your tree lights white or colored, or even (gasp) blinking?
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Books
Thinking of You
Friend of TMN Sam Brown has been making weird, witty, touching drawings for the last five years at Exploding Dog--each drawing inspired by a sentence submitted by a reader--and just...
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Gallery
Real Photo Postcards
Postcards haven’t always been cheesy collages of lighthouses—when Kodak enabled people to make their own cards in 1907, a craze swept the nation. A gallery from a new collection of odd correspondence.
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Web
Edible San Francisco
New Yorkers like me believe we've got it the best among cities when it comes to dining out, but sadly there's no Big Apple comparison to Edible San Francisco, a...
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Books
Love Trouble
Students of Ian Frazier, fetch your Visas! How many young writers, humor lovers, Tina Brown haters have heard of Veronica Geng? If only for her piece "Love Trouble Is My...
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Things
OJex juicer
It is sad, but I slobber over my OJex juicer. Compact, sexually alluring, and easy to clean, it makes me orange juice every morning (when I remember to buy oranges),...
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Restaurants
Maria’s New Mexican Kitchen
Santa Fe is a small city of tourist squeezers wearing expensive belts, with lots of posh restaurants that were ready to sap my wallet. But among the joints I tried,...
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Music
Soft
If there's a TMN house band (besides Trail of Dead), it's Soft, a Brooklyn-based quintet currently blowing up with a finally-released EP. How five guys manage to recreate the Manchester...