November 08, 2009
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March / April 2003
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Kilometer Zero is an engaging new journal from an eponymous collective of expatriate artists and writers living in Paris. Issues #2 and #3 profile experimental musical instrument makers and artists who take on controversial subjects and document a project in which clothing was gathered under the pretext of ?product placement,? then donated to children?s charities. $36.31 (4 issues) from 48 bis rue D?Orsel, Paris, 75018, France; www.kilometerzero.org

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The Girls Will Be Boys Will Be Girls Coloring Book, created by JT Bunnell and Irit Reinheimer, uses images from zines, children?s books, and kids? drawings to question assumptions about gender roles. ?Aunt Nina knows machines,? one caption reads, and ?Stanley spends Super Bowl Sunday sewing slacks.? $5.50?7.50 (sliding scale; checks payable to Jacinta Bunnell) from Box 1213, New Paltz, NY 12561

The Urban Pantheist is a zine about paying attention to?and appreciating?wildlife in cities. The latest edition (#3) has an amazing color photo on its cover depicting a red-tailed hawk eating a mallard, with the Boston skyline in the background. Inside: personal writings about urban birds, snakes, and salamanders?plus the ?what we believe? statement of the World Pantheist Movement. $3 (1 issue) from Jef Taylor, 140A Harvard Ave., #308, Allston, MA 02134

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