So, here’s a quick list of alternative, cool, and subversive places:

JOURNALS AND MAGS THAT WERE VERY COOL – SUBMIT TO THEM:

Avery* – very cool girl named Emma Straub. Last name sound familiar?
Mississippi Review – but the current issue, V36, N3 it is ON literary mags
Hobart
ACM* (Another Chicago Magazine) – very cool, kind of punk rock
Roger – small, seems open
Monkeybicycle
Bat City Review* – very cool, got 1 rejection, so far
Blue Earth Review – new, small
St. Petersburg Review – seems cool
Quick Fiction* – cool, short stuff, under 1000
Redivider* – been eyeing them, I like them even more now
Copper Nickel* – VERY cool, dark stuff
Opium Magazine – published online, good stuff
American Short Fiction – SEEM open
Fringe – online only, very cool chicks
Salamander – seem cool
Turnrow* – bit surreal, seem very open

CONTESTS/PRESSES/MISC:
Harper Perennial* – heard they are very cool and open
Grub Street Book Prize
Les Figues Press
Red Hen Press – Short Story Award
http://www.squad365.blogspot.com – promotion, good panel
The Review Review* – like duotrope, but actual review of lit mags

PRESSES:
CoffeeHouse*
Red Hen
Dzanc
Harper Perennial
Tin House
Dalkey Archive – great press, open to subversive, experimental

AGENTS:
Robin Mitchell – new, but very sweet she suggested
Nat Sobel – supposed to be looking for writers

BOOKS I BOUGHT:
The Abstracy by Goodloe Byron – cool guy pimping his book
All Over by Roy Kesey – very cool, 2007 BASS, will interview/get to submit
Big World by Mary Miller – Hobart published this, Aaron, the editor, read from it at Opium
Ovenman by Jeff Parker – Tin House, Caleb suggestion, looks very cool

Hope that helps.