Friday Afternoon in the Universe

Jeremy Gantz May 8, 2009

Some Internet diversions for aimless late-afternoon office dwellers and weekend browsers… —John Nichols has a nice round-up of marriage equality's march through New England and the Mid-Atlantic. —The best movie trailer I've seen in weeks: The Garden, a documentary about Los Angelenos' battle for 13 acres of earth that has just been released in NYC and DC . —And FLYP continues to set a new standard for web storytelling: The web-only mag's new issue tackles the Great Madoff Swindle, a piece that should win an award for explanatory journalism.

Jeremy Gantz is an In These Times contributing editor working at Time magazine.

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