The LOST Blog

Back after 20 years

The Editor — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 22:11:00 +0000

Class ring lost, found!

Cleveland Plain Dealer: Lost ring's tale comes full circle after two decades

Praise for THIS HAS HAPPENED

The Editor — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 15:17:00 +0000

This Has Happened, by Piera Sonnino (excerpted in the February 2007 issue of LOST) is getting glowing review attention and was named one of Playboy magazine's "Best of 2006."

LOST Magazine's excerpt of This Has Happened

Europe's Lost Children Hotline

Depts Editor — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 17:37:00 +0000

The EU will set up a single hotline for parents to report missing children.

Barnum's Museum

Depts Editor — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 14:24:00 +0000

An online recreation of Barnum's famous American Museum from the American Social History Project.

CBGB

The Editor — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 11:31:00 +0000

"Just after 1 on Monday morning, the last notes of live music rang from the stage of CBGB & OMFUG, the Bowery club where punk-rock invented itself...."

lost to memory

SMiLE -- and more lost music

The Editor — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 12:11:00 +0000

Rolling Stone lists its "most lost" picks.

Rolling Stone: Lost Music: Green Day's Stolen Album, Kurt's Demos and Other Mythical Masterpieces

"Doomsday" vault -- for seeds

Depts Editor — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 17:25:00 +0000

When the rest of the world succumbs to catastrophe, Norway's seed vault will preserve crop biodiversity.

'Doomsday' vault design unveiled

Antiquities misplaced, stolen, or lost?

The Editor — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 13:39:00 +0000

More "misplaced" treasures....

Guardian: Italy to ask Japan for return of 'looted' antiques

Taxonomic perils of gambling

The Editor — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 16:40:00 +0000

Hello, "Peyton."

Cnn.com: Chicago Bears fan begins painful name change

And life (and lives) move on ... .

The Editor — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 12:26:00 +0000

NY Times: Ed Bradley, TV Correspondent, Dies at 65

And in Iraq--

NY Times: When Soldiers Fall, Grief Binds a Unit's 2 Worlds

Incomplete amputee

The Editor — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 12:03:00 +0000

A woman yearns to lose her legs and is halfway to her goal.

Guardian: I won't be happy until I lose my legs

The kitchen sink

The Editor — Mon, 26 Sep 2005 01:44:00 +0000

"Apple is not responsible for direct, special, incidental or consequential damages resulting from any breach of warranty or condition, or under any other legal theory, including but not limited to loss of use; loss of revenue; loss of actual or anticipated profits (including loss of profits on contracts); loss of the use of money; loss of anticipated savings; loss of business; loss of opportunity; loss of goodwill; loss of reputation; loss of, damage to or corruption of data; or any indirect of consequential loss or damage howsoever caused...."--Apple's one year limited warranty (keyboard)

After fire, ice

The Editor — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 11:40:00 +0000

An abandoned part of New York succumbs to the deep freeze.

NY Times: From Searing Flames, a Bleak, Cold Landscape

Last call at the Fenny

The Editor — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 12:25:00 +0000

A dear Pennsylvania tavern is closing its doors.

Lebanon Daily News: Fenwick Tavern issues last call

Two sides of "reign"

The Editor — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 11:40:00 +0000

Indianapolis Colts 29, Chicago Bears 17 in a rainy Superbowl. According to the Chicago Tribune, "In the end, [the Bears] were a haggard, beaten bunch" in what its homepage called a "Reign Out."

Chi Tribune: Bears fall in sloppy Super Bowl

From the other side of the field, The Indianapolis Star took a fresh approach and called the result a "Blue Reign" on their homepage.

Indy Star: Shedding labels

Reading tonight!

The Editor — Wed, 10 May 2006 15:00:00 +0000

It's not a LOST event, but our second guest fiction editor, Peter
Orner, will read from his novel tonight at the KGB Bar in New York;
stop by if you get a chance.

Reading: Peter Orner (our second Guest Fiction Editor)
From his novel, THE SECOND COMING OF MAVALA SHIKONGO
May 10, 7:00 p.m
KGB Bar (http://www.kgbbar.com/calendar/event/2006-05-10_novel_jews_pete.html)
85 East 4 Street, New York, NY

And if you haven't checked out issue No. 6 yet, visit us at www.lostmag.com.

And stay tuned; on the first Monday of June, we launch our seventh
issue, a special issue we're calling "LOST at Sea."

Ahoy,

Your friends at LOST Magazine

Lost (and back)

The Editor — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 18:39:00 +0000

"At the end of the day, everybody lost."
--Wayne Gretzky on the players' and owners' tentative agreement to end the National Hockey League lockout

Moving homes, entirely

The Editor — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 13:34:00 +0000

LOST contributor

Alan Huffman's

latest essay, in the Times, describes what's found (and lost) when folks move historic homes.

NY Times: Take It Away

Luggage...

The Editor — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 23:07:00 +0000

lost in flight!

Lost Space

The Editor — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 12:27:00 +0000

The Apollo 11 moonwalk tapes, featuring much better video than what appeared on national television in 1969, are lost and nowhere to be found.

Wa Post: The Saga Of the Lost Space Tapes

$113 million in 5 years?

The Editor — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 12:09:00 +0000

AOL: Hard-Luck Lottery Winner Says He's Broke

Hemingway's cats in danger!

The Editor — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 14:27:00 +0000

USA Today: The plot thickens for Hemingway's cats

In the face of profound, immediate loss, the human...

The Editor — Sun, 11 Sep 2005 11:06:00 +0000

In the face of profound, immediate loss, the human struggle is always against that loss. It's in our nature; we race to fill the loss in by finding, and we're seeing that race play out hundreds of times daily now, in New Orleans. The most dramatic stories coming out of Louisiana aren't political, though certainly, the smallest decisions have affected great numbers of people. The most dramatic stories are individual--losses of life, losses of children, losses of sanity--the losses that, regardless of their cause, are overpowering for a citizenship that can only sit idly as the images stream by (for it feels that way, no matter how hard our emotions are wrenched, no matter what kind of aid we give).

The world's citizens have reached out and provided absolute compassion and generosity in scenes that go some ways towards reaffirming our trust in basic humanity and goodness. But in the face of profound, immediate loss, time is of the essence, especially when losing that race, even by a minute, can mean anything, including unnatural, untimely death. That, more than anything--and the knowing of its possibility--is the hardest thing to see in the faces of the survivors of Hurricane Katrina.

Recently, celebrities like Oprah Winfrey and Dr. Phil have done as much as they could--counseling, providing compassion, and even reuniting families for their television shows. It's impossible and inappropriate to criticize the results of their efforts--one loss found, one void filled, is how it starts, how we start chipping away at the overwhelming situation on the ground in New Orleans. But in a more perfect world, the reunions they enabled wouldn't have been delayed for tape, as they seemed to be during recently-aired programs. Shows wouldn't have been built around grieving family members already separated from their loved ones, especially when the structure of those shows was merely a conceit--the missing family members were on the sets, waiting, it seemed, for the shows' staffs to bring them out, at the "right" moment for television drama.

The drama is already there, these weeks; there's no need to augment it. And using that by drawing it out--not the end result, not the intent--is what was inexcusable. Finding people, dead or alive, is of the utmost importance, and moving quickly and letting the lost know what, and who, has been found--as soon as possible and not even a minute later--is the only way to do it.

NY Penn Station

The Editor — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 05:41:00 +0000

Bye bye, Beauty

The Editor — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 12:14:00 +0000

'The Little Mermaid' will soon oust 'Beauty and the Beast' from Broadway.

NY Times: Mermaid Approaches, So Beauty Will Close