mama links:

HipMama Food for thought for mothers who dare to be heinie!

Waterbirth International Just think, if you hadn't been born yet, you could be like Milo and emerge underwater like a fish!

Mamaphonic An online community for creative mothers, as well as a reflection of the mushrooming 'mama zine' phenom. Visit the discussion boards and before you know it, you'll be starting your own zine if you haven't already.

Brain,Child Hey, a magazine for thinking mothers, which is to say mothers who think about more than how to decorate the friggin' nursery.

Festival Five Records Sing with gusto!

zine links:

Street Librarian Chris Dodge, the Utne Reader's librarian, reads a heap of zines, has a fire in his belly for peace and agitates tirelessly on behalf of deserving low-visibility Do-It-Yourself projects!

Mobilivre A vintage airstream trailer refitted as a browsing library on wheels for zines and artists books may be heading to a town near you this summer! Cooooooooool!

The Book of Zines Want the nitty gritty on how to make and promote your own zine? You got it.

Zine Guide Just like the late Factsheet 5, Zine Guide will include your zine in a bite-sized listing. The reviews are left to readers (usually other zine publishers) who have either a vested interest in or nothing better to do than filling out zine guide's favorite and least favorite zine surveys. Keep The East Village Inky in the top 250 by mailing your survey in today!

Hausfrau Muthah-Zine What, you think there can't be two insouciant, hand-drawn self-published periodicals devoted to the exploits of a woman and her two kids? Subscribe today!

nyc links:

Time Out New York The online compulsive guide to what's happening in New York this week.

Chowhound Want to eat good, weird and cheap in NYC? Play with the search engine here and the next thing you know, you'll be chasing a roving souvlaki vendor who doesn't speak English into the wilds of Queens!

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BUST Mother Superior urges you to subscribe to this magazine so that her column and this fine publication might continue to thrive, bringing glittery, vibrating feminism to the youthful masses.

Bitch It warms the cockles of Bitchmother's heart that the bright spot in that cesspool of 'women's magazines' is 'a feminist response to pop culture.' Tear out the subscription card on this one too!

David Kodeski Various Chicagoans have reported that my friend David Kodeski puts a pall on social gatherings with dark mutterings regarding his glaring absence from this links page. Let us free the city of Chicago and silence this bad fairy! I hereby command you to immerse yourself in his wonderful, true life tales, particularly those pertaining to "Another Lousy Day."

My friend Karen's mom, Mary Christopher! Look at all the beautiful pottery Mama's got time to make, now that her children are (more or less) out of her hair!

Found Just because Greg says the kids aren't allowed to pick interesting scraps of paper out of the gutter, doesn't mean I can't!

Ocelot Factory Look at what Webmaster Dave Awl gets up to when he's not toiling in the trenches of AyunHalliday.com. Also, stop by Dave's news, politics & culture blog Ocelopotamus!