Paper Faces, Paper Cities What if the city was something you could remake every day, restoring bits you feared were lost? Pitchaya Sudbanthad talks to the street artist known as Swoon, including a full gallery of her fascinating work.

The Letters of Gary Benchley, Rock Star: Getting the Band Together, Part I In his sixth dispatch for TMN, aspiring rock star Gary Benchley begins to make his dreams come true: time to assemble the band. But the gap between buying a guitar and playing one proves wider than expected, and it may only be Depeche Mode who can save the day.

News Gone Wild Pop quiz for the journalism students in the audience: What’s an editor to do when her reporter is assaulted and the attacker, whom the reporter strikes back, turns out to be the story’s subject?

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, The Boatman’s Call ‘Poignant’ may be an overused word. Poignant books, poignant movies, poignant moments. But nothing is as poignant as this album,…