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1. The New's Kickstarter

   Kickstarter.com is a way to (forgive the pun) Kick Start Your Ideas! Check out this story to see if Kickstarter is the jump you need or if you can fund someone else’s cause.

2. Top Ten Top 10 Albums with Mayer Hawthorne

   Theme was dying to know what Hawthorne’s personal Top 10 Detroit LPs of All Time were, and he obliged us.

3. Poland Polish Delights

   Twenty-five-year-old graphic designer/illustrator Kinga Offert clues us in to one of Europe’s hidden gems — her hometown, Poznan Poland. When not designing or illustrating, Kinga sculpts little clay lucha libre figurines and sends them to friends and strangers all over the world to be photographed in situ (think traveling gnome project). 

4. Africa The Beauty of Jozi

   “Jozi is not automatically romantic...It’s an acquired taste; it’s tough to find the true magic and that’s the beauty of the place,” says Mpumi Mcata, one of the founders of the Johannesburg rock band BLK JKS. Mcata makes it just a little easier to find the magic of Jozi by sharing some of his favorite spots in his hometown. 

5. Theme The Art of Noise

   Jonathan Zawada discusses with Theme his relationship with the disciplines of art and design.

6. Theme A Garage Sale of Emotional Artifacts

   Leanne Shapton has been an author, columnist, editor as well as an illustrator and artist. She is a transitionist.

7. The New's Legal Shark

   The famed William Kunstler has been profiled in a film by his daughters; Emily and Sarah Kunstler. Their father represented the prisoners after the overtaking of Attica Prison in 1971, the Chicago “8” and the American Indian Movement during the standoff at Wounded Knee in 1973. 

8. The Book Review To The 5 Boros

   This is the New York I remember, before billionaire mayors and closures of major traffic areas for the walkers; Sue Kwon’s Street Level is photographic history.

9. United States Sleepless in Seatown

   Food and travel writer Patricia Tanumihardja’s Seattle is considered her on-and-off home. We caught up with her after the launch of her new cookbook The Asian Grandmothers Cookbook to discuss places to eat and sightsee in her adopted hometown. 

10. The New's Kinfolk

    “Ironically, the name Kinfolk refers to a camaraderie rarely seen in the bicycle world.”

11. Theme No Distinction

    The Transitionists are a movement of designers who are simultaneously working as artists: Their design work informs their artwork and vice-versa. They are not limited by their titles. Here is a conversation between Deanne Cheuk, Chris Rubino ; the curators of this issue and Shepard Fairey.

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