Email Author Leah Shafer

2006 Stories by Leah Shafer

• Deep Art

  published April 6, 2006

  We were recently out in Park City, Utah, for their little "film festival," and we were impressed. Charming downtown packed with colorful historic... More >>

• Breaking Glass

  published March 30, 2006

  Not since the British invasion of the '60s have so many women stood screaming in the aisles of theaters, tearing at their hair and waiting to... More >>

• Girls Can Too

  published March 23, 2006

  "Girls who are boys/Who like boys to be girls/Who do boys like they're girls/Who do girls like they're boys." The chorus to Blur's gender-bending... More >>

• Darkroom Laughs

  published March 9, 2006

  As an artistic medium, photography excels at capturing the intensity of a moment in time. For instance, Lindsay Lohan's umpteenth nipple slip last... More >>

• Ten Days of Talent

  published March 2, 2006

  Minimum wage, the pay standard, will net you $206 after 40 hours of cleaning toilets/changing diapers/mowing lawns. Minimum Wage, the performance... More >>

• Shopping Art

  published February 23, 2006

  College dorm room walls are like a Rorschach test—and the art is the key. Van Gogh's "Starry Night"? Creative, tortured type, into the Cure.... More >>

• The War on Cold

  published February 23, 2006

  Since the Cold War ended, we've been neglecting our Russian cultural relations. Sure, Oprah stuck a Tolstoy book on her reading list and Aleksandr... More >>

• Here to There

  published February 16, 2006

  Mapmaking has never been an easy job. If you weren't lamenting the earth being flat or figuring out a secret passageway to India, you were hoping... More >>

• Making a Point

  published February 16, 2006

  You've got to work with what you've got. And if you've got 10 personalities vying for top billing in your body, why not give each one its own time... More >>

• Shakin' the Junk

  published February 9, 2006

  For the easily bored, traditional aerobic exercise is an activity akin to being forced to push giant rocks in Dante's fourth circle of hell.... More >>

• Meat Market

  published January 26, 2006

  Eating alone can suck the pleasure right out of a meal for gourmands interested in sharing their culinary discoveries. So why not gather the... More >>

• Wedge of Ice

  published January 26, 2006

  When I was a girl, I couldn't decide which was cooler, Dorothy Hamill's hair or her ice-skating. Sure, she was a World Champion and Olympic gold... More >>

• Bronc, Stock and Barrel

  published January 19, 2006

  I've been thinking about torn muscles and broken bones. Not mine, mind you--I find hangnails too painful to bear. I've been thinking of the... More >>

• Japan, Animated

  published January 12, 2006

  Japan is a hot commodity this winter. Or rather, Japanese-themed products, the ones that commoditize the culture and sell it to Americans hungry... More >>