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1. Our Lady of 121st Street, Stephen Adly Guirgis
2. The Wizard of Oz
3. The Office
4. Twelfth Night^W, William Shakespeare
5. Cabaret
6. Hello, Dolly!
7. Diet Coke
8. Barbra Streisand^W
9. Disneyland^W*
10. To Kill a Mockingbird ,Harper Lee

*we went to Disneyland for this week’s Magpie Minute; check it out!

1. Capturing the Friedmans
2. Maxwell
3. Kale^W
4. The Legend of 1900
5. Women,  Food,  and God, Geneen Roth
6. “Phenomenal Woman,” Maya Angelou
7. What I Want My Words to Do to You
8. Saved By The Bell (“not the college years!”)
9. “Sweet Thing,” Mary J Blige OR “Lay With You,” Debarge (“it’s a toss up between these two songs! “)
10. Pilates’ Return to Life Through Contrology, Joseph Pilates
11. Gratz Pilates Equipment

Watch Kit discuss her list on MagpieTV!

1. “The Custom-House” chapter of The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
2. Workin’ Together, Ike and Tina Turner
3. The Last Picture Show
4. Starbucks Earl Gray Tea Lattes and Vanilla Bean Scones
5. All of Joan Didion’s non-fiction
6. All of Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling
7. Mark Ruffalo and Rory Culkin in You Can Count on Me
8. Mark Wahlberg in I Heart Huckabees
9. Everyone in Boogie Nights
10. Rubber Soul, The Beatles

“Hi Eve!”

1. Ciao! Manhattan
2. The Search for Delicious, Natalie Babbit
3. Selena
4. Oh No They Didn’t!
5. Liquid Sky
6. Approximately Infinite Universe, Yoko Ono
7. The Two Sisters (Directors Cut)
8. Los Angeles: People, Places, and the Castle on the Hill, AM Homes
9. From Burger it Came*
10. Chex Mix

*If you only follow one link today, follow this one to Dominic Bisignano’s animated short. It’s incredible.

1. The Fall
2. “The Tell-Tale Heart,” Edgar Allan Poe
3. La Condition Humaine, René Magritte
4. “Black Coffee,” Ella Fitzgerald
5. Pomegranate^W
6. “Knife,” Grizzly Bear
7. Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
8. “Delivery“
9. Moleskine
10. Synecdoche, Byron Kim

Watch Kate and her college roommate Bridget discuss their lists on MagpieTV: Episode 3!

1. Nikosi Sikelele
2. kora music of Mamadou Diabate
3. “any good pipe and drum band” (eg. Edinburgh Military Tattoo!)
4. Henri Rousseau’s jungle paintings
5. San Francisco Saxophone Quartet
6. Opus the penguin^W from Bloom County
7. watercolors from the original The Story of Babar books
8. paintings and sculptures of George Lilanga^W
9. perfectly fried okra
10. Angels in America, Tony Kushner

1. KCRW World Music Concerts at the Hollywood Bowl
2. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Diaz
3. Bacon^W
4. “September,” Earth, Wind & Fire
5. Stay With Me, Lorraine Ellison
6. “Post-screening kumquatinis, lobster rolls and french fries at the Hungry Cat in Hollywood”
7. “Good Luck,” Basement Jaxx featuring Lisa Kekaula
8. “Damn Your Eyes,” Etta James
9. McConnell’s Turkish Coffee ice cream
10. The Big Picture

“Very hard to cut this list to ten!”

1. Minuet in G,* Bach
2. Mikrokosmos 131, Bela Bartok
3. Canope, Claude Debussy
4. Lanquidity, Sun Ra
5. Aventures,* Gyorgy Ligeti
6. Prelude in E-Minor (op.28 no.4), Frederic Chopin
7. Madlib^W/Yesterdays New Quintet*
8. Karlheinz Stockhausen^W
9. Blue in Green, Miles Davis and Bill Evans
10. Apple Pie (“yum”)

*have a listen!

1. The Shawshank Redemption
2. Guacamole at Casa Vega
3. The squirrels at the park on Tujunga
4. Elbow (band)^W
5. Sigur Ros^W or Goldfrapp^W – LIVE
6. Pumpkin Loaf (the food)
7. 1:11, 12:12, 4:44, 5:55
8. Hummingbird feeder
9. Charmed (“yes. Charmed.”)
10. Salmon En Croute (Trader Joe’s)

read about faleena’s latest project in the magpie blog!

1. Friends
2. Saturday Night Live
3. The River, Bruce Springsteen
4. Blue Collar Comedy Tour
5. “Blowin’ in the Wind,” Bob Dylan
6. “Life Goes On,” Tupac
7. Magnolia
8. Eminem
9. The Killers
10. Coca-Cola^W

1. Arthur – Or The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire, The Kinks
2. The Village Green Preservation Society, The Kinks
3. The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
4. Anchorman
5. Hills Like White Elephants, and The Old Man and The Sea, Ernest Hemingway
6. The Flaming Lips – The Fearless Freaks
7. The World According to Garp, John Irving
8. Black Elk Speaks, John Neihardt
9. Ladies & Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space, Spiritualized
10. Bicycles (“the kind you ride”)
11. Campfire  (“the kind you burn”)
12. Sea Food (“the kind you eat”)

Read about Travis and his latest musical endeavor here!