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action/example ::

• 1-42 interviews the people behind The Polaris Project, an anti-human trafficking organization...
• Christina Glavas shows how you can contribute to the efforts of nationally recognized Move.On Organization
• Teresa Mitchell continues her entries on her Peace Corps experience in East Timor...
• Jazz for Peace founder Rick DelaRatta explains how music and humanitarian aid really can come together...

culture ::

As surfing becomes Japan’s new golf, the surf shop has emerged as the new country club for many Japanese youth. If you consider that Japanese emphasize the importance of the group over the individual, it is no accident that surf shop affiliation has the importance that it does. Belonging to a surf shop gives a Japanese surfer a name to associate with and a team to belong to. Without it you are ronin...Read more about surfing in Hyuga...

careers ::

Councilman Joel Rivera explains how age and experience are secondary to intent, inspiration and effort while writer Jason Strother explores the meaning behind Rivera's age - he's in his twenties?...1-42 sat down with Joel to learn more about NYC's youngest Majority Leader in history as well as hear his views on how other politically oriented 20-somethings can put their ideals to work...

music ::

• Just Jack really can't be compared to The Streets, according to Jason Newman
• Jem truly lives up to her name, both by personality and her electro-pop sound
• Amel Larrieux does us right with her suave vocals
• El-P brings back the old school
• The Cooper Temple Clause talks about the album, lyrics, and hanging out at NY bars...

The situation in Liberia is pretty bleak: 50% of the population is undernourished, 80% is unemployed... Average income is $83 per ear and some 15,000 Liberian combatants are children. How's that for good news? Read more...
• I Now Prounounce You Husband and....Husband? How far is NY from Same-Sex Marriages? Read more...
• Who and and what is The League of Pissed Off Voters and what do they have to do with you? Read more...

film :: Reviews/Interviews

• Elijah Wood :: We're all familiar with how difficult the transition has been for hordes of one-time stars- turned-tabloid staples and E! specials. 1-42 sat down with Wood to talk about his remarkable career, now, then and into tomorrow...
• Broken Lizard :: Meet the hilarious minds formerly of Colgate University behind the 2000 side-splitter Super Troopers
• Bernardo Bertolucci sheds light on his directorial history, and what's going down next...

art :: Photography/Illustration

• Dave Miller shares his humanity and illustrations in black and white drawings...

• Giuliano Giuliani graces us from Italy with his latest drawings, passionate depictions of life as we know it...

writing ::

Poetry :: Philip Fairbanks, BrokenKlutch, Corey Mesler, Maurice Oliver

Fiction :: Noah Cicero, Beth Gottfried, Cyril Derzie

LINKS WE DIG (Click here for more of our faves)

NPOs :: Correctional Association :: Gabriela Network :: Peace Corps

News/Issues :: Foreign Affairs :: Village Voice :: New York Times

Music :: Backspin Promotions :: Dankfunk Productions :: Plexi PR

Travel Sites :: Vagabonding :: Let's Go :: Lonely Planet

Online Zines :: Modest Proposal :: Ink Magazine :: Artsy Magazine :: Get Underground :: Moodspins