Note: This post is by Cree McCree, a veteran music scribe and author of the diary, Going Home to New Orleans. For more on the Big Easy, see SMITH’s all-true, serialized webcomic, A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge.

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What does it mean to not consult wizards?

I’ve just learned that this steer-clear-of-wizards business is one of God’s 613 Mitzvot, or the commandments the big guy handed down to the Jews. These 613 laws are the backbone of a … Read more

I think Philadelphia rocks. I grew up just 20 minutes outside the city, went to college there, am in and out of the city as often as I can. I loved the last Rocky movie, live for dinner in … Read more

I was waiting for someone to do six words on W.

Six Words for Bush (a writing contest)
Wherein we describe W’s tenure as president, now that it’s (almost) finally over.

I just sent in my official entry: “Born on third base. Stole home.” Send yours here.

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Blogger Rebecca Woolf’s new memoir, ROCKABYE: From Wild to Child (Seal Press) (read an excerpt) is about finding herself unexpectedly pregnant at 23 and her journey to become a mother and wife without losing herself in the process. Rebecca and I G-chatted about sex, baby weight, and the … Read more

Our new Six-Word Momoirs project with TrueMomConfessions.com and Delight.com is off and running. And the secret life of moms is as funny (”8 pound baby means Kegels forever”), sweet (”You had me at ‘my mama’”), and surprising (”Nipples … Read more

The winner of the SMITH and FOUND Mag’s Six-Word Caption Contest is Cassie Barton for “Home alone, Billy prepares TV dinner,” which now accompanies the photo you see here. Cassie’s a student in Oxford, UK who reports, “pleased—first time … Read more

This week I’m the guest editor over at SK*RT, the online community dedicated to finding the best stories on the Web as determined by its members. Like Digg, the more community members click on stories, the more prominently the … Read more

Anyone who just enjoyed, or possibly survived, their family’s Passover Seder this past weekend can relate to SMITH member Mia’s essay in My Life So Far. Her story, Family Time, is ostensibly about coming home for the holidays and discovering that her sister’s bulldog is wearing a … Read more

Four years ago, Lily Koppel, a young reporter for the New York TimesMetro desk, walked out of her Upper West Side apartment building to find a Dumpster on the curb. The Dumpster overflowed with at least fifty old steamer trunks—detritus from the building’s … Read more

The recent anniversary of the fifth year of the Iraq War is a good excuse to point out some of the war coverage we’ve done on SMITH. By “we” I by and large mean Michael Slenske, a young writer/reporter I worked … Read more

Many SMITH readers know that online storytelling legend and friend o’ SMITH Derek Powazek has recently reignited Fray, bursting back with stories on getting Busted. Following the web-print mixed media model Derek trail-blazed with JPG Magazine, “Busted” stories … Read more

We’ve just posted “Diaspora,” the newest chapter of A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge, the all-true serialized webcomic from Josh Neufeld and SMITH. I’m continually amazed at the detail Neufeld brings to each panel—the precision of expression … Read more

New York Times reporter Jennifer 8. Lee started tracking down a suspiciously high number of lottery winners, and ended up following a trail that led through hundreds of Chinese restaurants on six different continents. The book that resulted from this epic journey (read an excerpt here) ended up being … Read more

SMITH readers who first got a taste of Jason Thompson’s work via his then-memoir in progress, Stella: A Memoir, will be pleased to learn that the work will now be published as a full-length book on Lulu, the online, … Read more

Our true story of six people who survived the hurricane rolls into its tenth chapter, “Something in the Water,” where the Doctor gives out shots at a Bourbon Street bar, Hamid and Mansell wade through the chest-high flood waters … Read more

Happy Hallmark Day everyone! Greetings from L.A, where the strike is over, no one takes the bus, and we had ourselves a fabulous little Six-Word soiree last night with our friends at True Media. They’re launching a sexy new site called True Hookup Confessions, where you can spend … Read more