Recommended Reading
The Web is a large and confusing place. Let us be your suave and elegant guides, offering you a tall glass of cyber-lemonade as you make your way across the virtual desert, plodding from oasis to oasis on your robo-camel.
Here are some of our favorite online places of refuge:
5ives
Five-item lists. Yeah.
All-Movie Guide
This comprehensive database of film and video has everything you could
ask for, and some of it's written by Flak's own Stevie Kuenn. (She
specializes in teenagers, pop-stars-turned actors and crazy people.)
The Atlantic Monthly
The full contents of the Atlantic Monthly aren't available online anymore, but the web site still offers great web-exclusive cartoons, interviews and flashbacks to classic Atlantic articles.
The Black Table
An NYC powerhouse of prose.
The Christian Science Monitor
Pulitzer Prize-winning international news owned by a church. Go figure.
Coudal Partners
Smart, classy, funny, aesthetically aware and ruling Chi-Town with an iron fist.
The Daily Cardinal
The brutal make-or-break training ground of three of Flak's founding editors, and a number of its most zesty and prolific writers. This independent student daily has been serving the students of the University of Wisconsin-Madison for more than 108 years.
Defamer
A gleeful daily paparazzi-shot of the ugly side of fame.
FARK.com
Addictive as a good batch of crack, this constantly updated weblog of the weird, wretched and wonderful is mandatory reading for the witerati. Be sure to check out the Photoshop jam sessions.
Gawker
The dominant online watercooler for the snide, snarky and successful.
Heifer Project
The Heifer Project gives food-producing animals to families in developing countries, providing a source of income and sustenance to those who need it most. It has a hell of a nice website, too.
Jest.com
Mourning the passing of Modern Humorist's once frequent (and always funny) web-humor updates? Jest.com is on the case, slinging laffs and libeling the famous.
Romenesko
Journalism's water-cooler. Layoffs! Spats! Ethical controversies!
meomore
This James Stegall production blends original art with short, crisp writing. It's half-online, half-traditional media, and all cool.
The Morning News
This "web-based broadsheet" boasts some of tightest writing and editing on the Internet.
The Onion
If you don't already know about The Onion, you've been living in a cyberproof cave. But as good Madisonians, it's hard not to promote these lovable multimedia scamps. Please: enjoy their ample comedy.
The Page
Articles and interviews about poetry and literary criticism from around the Web.
The Press Democrat
The daytime home of Eric Wittmershaus, Flak's managing editor, covers California's Wine Country and coastal regions north of San Francisco. And, hey, it's a pretty good paper.
Railbird
The best blog — really, just about the only blog — about horse racing online, written by Flak books editor Jessica Chapel. Get your hot tips here.
Serialtext
Authors with an axe to grind do it on the Web. New chapters every week (or whenever) – watch the fresh towers of literature rise and fall.
So New Media
Independent media printed out on paper and presented to you, the consumer. This is the hardcore stuff – the Web's glorious underground artistic outpost. Check it.
TV Tattle
The definitive TV blog aggregates and contextualizes all your meta-TV reading material at one easy-to-remember URL.
Über.nu
This daily humor site is crisp, zesty and packs a wallop.
Zulkey.com
Flak's own Claire Zulkey busts out with interviews, a daily diary and more.
