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Editor's Picks 2009

Arts execs take a break from ranking Radiohead vs. Spoon to rank... whatever they feel like.

It would be imprudent to reveal the amount of time I have spent using this interactive feature, which allows you to upload a photo of yourself and test out a range of celebrity haircuts. The name is slightly misleading because you also have the power to do many other crazy things like thin your eyebrows by infinitesimal degrees, preview colored contact lenses, and sample hundreds of different cosmetics, each of which corresponds to a real-life product with the price and purchasing information right there on the page. What started as a serious endeavor to see what I’d look like with a pixie cut has now become an ambitious project: to outfit all my blockmates in Lady Gaga hair. Don’t tell; it’s their Christmas present!

—Jessica R. Henderson is the outgoing Movies Editor. Before she met her boyfriend, he had a rattail.

GREEN IS THE NEW CRIMSON: THE DECADE’S BEST RECYCLED MUSIC

At the dawn of the new decade, with all its ominous environmental challenges, now is the time to honor those musicians who have publicly gone green. In a world that grasps greedily at resources of rapidly diminishing quality, fourteen artists produced ten fascinating new tracks with 50-100% post-consumer material. They are the green imps who have stood on the shoulders of giants—and, by Gore, have they seen further! This is pure outshining gold.

1. Puff Daddy, Faith Evans, and 112, “I’ll Be Missing You”

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Remix of “Adagio for Strings” by Samuel Barber, “Every Breath You Take” by the Police and the American spiritual “I’ll Fly Away”

2. Israel Kamakawiwo’ole, “Somewhere Over the Rainbow”

Remix of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” by Judy Garland, Harold Arlen and E. Y. Harburg and “What a Wonderful World” by Louis Armstrong

3. Eminem, “Sing for the Moment”

Remix of “Sing for the Moment” by Aerosmith

4. Anya Marina, “Whatever You Like”

Cover of T.I.

5. Amy Winehouse, “Tears Dry On Their Own”

Remix of “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” by the Temptations

6. Jay-Z feat. Linkin Park, “Encore”

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